New Orleans ACORN bought a new national headquarters on Canal Street, the storied center line between the French Quarter and the CBD (Central Business District). We are twenty-six blocks from the River. From the window in my new office I can see the Superdome and much of downtown. We are hardly moved in on …
Category: Personal Writings
The ACORN Vote
New Orleans Yesterday from field reports it seemed the two remaining major candidates on the Democratic Party side were campaigning hard for the “ACORN Vote” and what it represents. This report from Matthew Henderson, ACORN Head Organizer in New Mexico, on an Obama event there: Obama came to Albuquerque today and asked us to …
Class Act
New Orleans John Edwards not only said and talked more about class, equity, and the continuing struggle against poverty, but he also was a class act in every way. When his people reached out and said that he was going to be speaking in the upper 9th Ward about poverty, New Orleans ACORN members …