http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/01_VEN_AQUI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As a principle part of our organizing around adequate and affordable housing over decades, we’ve always believed in there being a “warrant of habitability” and some clear standards in housing codes that insured the safety and health of lower income families. We still believe that, …
Forty-eight Years and ACORN Rolls On
New Orleans June 18th is ACORN’s birthday. Our staff policies still list it as a possible holiday that can be substituted for other dates if someone on staff had to work a holiday. On most birthdays nothing can be remembered by babies. The clock on a lifetime begins ticking with the official marking of time …
Families versus Workers, Morality versus Self-Interest
New Orleans When Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son, and one of the most prominent evangelists in the country and someone with in-and-out privileges at the White House says the Trump family-separation anti-immigrant policy is “immoral,” you know there’s something truly evil in this mess. Trump has even expressed reservations about family separation as a …