Sausalito Every year ACORN gathers several sets of its newer organizers into a mid-level and an advanced training session somewhere in the country. In recent years we have met in and around Los Angeles. This year we met at a YMCA on the Marin Headlands across from San Francisco and by climbing a hill one …
Category: Personal Writings
Human Levee
New Orleans ACORN leader, Joe Sherman, has been a rock in the rebuilding of the upper Carrollton neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. Flooding from the 17th Street Canal inundated the area along with the Lakeview neighborhood, Hollygrove, and many others on the western side of the city. Many repairs have been made on the …
Rocky Road Home
New Orleans Coming from the airport in the rain, I was surprised to see the crowd on the office porch and the live TV trucks with their 50 foot high antennas parked in the neutral ground in front of the office. I wondered if I would be able to get into my office because my …