Washington, DC: Every year ACORN leaders come from far and wide to Washington, DC for the annual ACORN Legislative and Political Conference.  This year more than 150 ACORN members came for the full week and another 800 members came to participate in actions.    The timing was fortuitous.  The ACORN delegation happened to be in town …

Dar es Salaam  Dar es Salaam was a port city swarming with people, market places, single lane traffic, hustle and bustle.  Either I was homesick or I felt like I was home.   When the country was controlled by the left ruling party for many years, the labor movement was part of the scene, but not independent.  …

Dar es Salaam  Throughout my visits in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, I asked some of the same questions, particularly to union brothers and sisters and the comrades in the allied trades that supported unions in one way or another.   One question was always about density coupled with the system of dues collection and the level …