New Orleans I was invited to the lunch held by the ACORN Caucus of Color on the final day of the Year End / Year Begin Meeting. Having arrived on time, I sat at the back table. As the organizers arrived there were a lot of double takes as they saw me there. When …
Category: Personal Writings
A Visit with Tom Matzzie
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 …
Race and powell
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 …