Orlando WARN and all of our allies went to the first reading and hearing in Orlando for the Big Box Ordinance in the County on Tuesday night. I had come in for meetings with the staff and, originally, for the hearing until it was scheduled for the evening rather than the morning at the last …
Category: Personal Writings
Perfect Circles
New Orleans In New Orleans like many other places we have a self-absorbed and self-serving elite and unaccountable bunch of goo-goos, as the good government types have been called for almost a century, which collect themselves under the banner of the BGR — Bureau of Government Research. Today they manage to occupy some real estate …
Organizer’s Book Club
San Antonio Around this time every year as part of the training and staff development program at ACORN we hold a dialogue of interested organizers. This year the topic was development and implementation of multinational campaigns so we could look at models from other campaigns, read some about work done by other organizations, and examines …