New Orleans Tom Matzzie most recently was campaign director for MoveOn.org, but we first met him when he was building the internet campaigns for the AFL-CIO some years ago. In between he did a turn with the DNC. He’s a professional on the cutting edge of large scale Democratic political mobilizations and a strategist for …

New Orleans      Professor john powell visited with our Year End / Year Begin meeting. This is a good friend of organizing and ACORN who I have gotten to know much better while we have been serving together on the Tides board. He is also just a heavyweight thinker and smart as a tack …

New Orleans We were fortunate to be able to get former HUD Secretary and Mayor of San Antonio Henry Cisneros to come by the Year End / Year Begin Meeting and give some perspectives on his short — but difficult — list of what needed to be done in rebuilding housing policy in a new …