New Orleans Rob “Biko” Baker, the executive director of the League of Young Voters, wrote an interesting story in the Summer 2012 issue of Shelterforce daring to state plainly what has been obvious to virtually everyone concerned and biting their fingernails as the USA Election Day looms before us. His article, entitled “Picking up ACORN’s …
Category: Voting Rights
Hating on ACORN as Election Countdown Nears in USA
Victoria We are hardly more than a week until the USA Presidential election and predictably the conservative rightwing is pulling out the big guns and narrowing their sights for the kill, but surprisingly many are still aimed at ACORN, now almost two years gone. Sure, it’s not as bad as it was four years ago. One …
Charter Schools Continue to Resist Accountability and Transparency
New Orleans New Orleans is widely considered the vanguard of the charter school movement. Since the usurpation of the school system by the state in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, charter schools of all shapes, sizes, and varieties have been the norm. It’s hard to tell in most ways how this grand experiment is working …