Johannesburg and Cape Town As we made our way around the country, we tried to take in some of the ways South Africa has marked their troubled time.  We visited the Apartheid Museum in Jo-burg, Nelson Mandela’s old house in Soweto outside of the city, the Hector Piedersen Museum in Soweto on the site of the …

Vancouver: Four Canadians and one Taiwanese after a whirlwind week with the Community Leadership Centre are now heading towards their future, or more specifically an intense eleven (11) week stint of community organizing with ACORN in Seattle, Portland, San Diego, and Minneapolis/St. Paul.  They were supercharged with excitement, anticipation, and of course raw, brute fear.  They …

Kansas City: H&R Block is the largest tax preparer in the country, grinding out close to 20 million returns a year.  They make the market in more ways that one can imagine when it comes to moving taxes and refunds.   Their path crosses with ACORN in ways that might surprise until one thinks about it.  First, …