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 …
Category: Protests
Updates and Catch-ups
New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …
Quitting the Movement
New Orleans I have to admit to deeply mixed feelings upon reading the news that Cindy Sheehan, the bereaved mother of an American soldier lost in Iraq, was throwing in the towel as a spokesperson and leader of the anti-war efforts. I don’t believe these are fights that any of us can quit on …