New Orleans Before you say anything, let me be clear. We’re big Al Green fans. Huge, simply, huge! Houston’s Democratic Congressman Al Green has been our go-to-guy for the last dozen years, whenever Local 100 United Labor Unions or ACORN needed help on anything, anytime. When there was a resolution in Congress to ban ACORN, …
Protecting Chaco Canyon Matters to Everyone
New Orleans Chaco Canyon is a national park, but the odds are you have never been there, and that you never will go there. It’s more than 30 miles off of a two-lane highway on a graded, dirt road in northwestern New Mexico. That’s on purpose. This isn’t Yellowstone. It’s not supposed to be easy. …
Seems No End to Some Rent-to-Own Contracts
New Orleans As the teams of ACORN Home Savers Campaign student volunteers came in from the field on Sunday afternoon with their reports on the families they visited who were under various housing contracts in Memphis, the stories were stirring and profound. Having been greenhorns on Saturday, now many of them spoke in the language …