Pearl River We were organizing nurses at a hospital in Amarillo, Texas some years ago in the time of the Haley Bopp comet. We’d filed for an NLRB election, but we were far afield of our natural base in Texas in the big cities. It was one of those situations where we should have …
Category: Personal Writings
Annie Falls, the Backbone of a Community and an Organization
Pearl River As Chief Organizer of ACORN all of these years, I’ve been fortunate to know hundreds of great community and organizational leaders at the country, state, and local level. The ones I would know best were the leaders elected to represent their division of the organization. I would see them at board meetings, …
O’Keefe and Project Veritas Guilty Again
Lake Stoney, Ontario Maybe it’s not even news, but once again, yet another judge and jury has found rightwing scammer James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas guilty. It’s a drumbeat that won’t stop. They paid damages to ACORN employees in California who they hurt. O’Keefe and his confederates were found guilty for their office tampering in …