Philadelphia On Sunday at Temple University the ACORN Executive Board and key leaders from states in the Northeast spent hours developing questions for the ACORN Presidential Candidate Forum to be held on Monday afternoon in a church right off campus. Practice makes perfect, and the ACORN leaders wanted to be ready on every score as …
Category: Personal Writings
Darfur Dispute
San Francisco Not long ago there was a disconcerting article in the New York Times about internal upheaval in the Save Darfur Coalition in the wake of its pivotal role in beginning to finally create an international will to stop the killing in this part of the world that has led to more than …
Edwards’ Anti-Poverty Fight
New Orleans An obvious disclosure is that we deeply care about poverty. We care about whether money is overtaking politics, too. We in fact believe that the poor would have a better shot at participation and policy if the role of money was lessened. So I’m admitting all of that, but nonetheless I am mystified …