Airportlandia

            Atlanta             Marva Burnett, ACORN International’s president, John Anderson, ACORN Canada’s field director, and I gave each other one last wave, as they hurried off to Terminal 1 in Manchester, and I began the hike to Terminal 2 with hours to spare.  It turned out to be a good thing, because when the Virgin Atlantic …

Membership Makes Haiti Personal

    Washington     Haiti seems snakebit.  Hurricanes, assassinations, corruption, gang control, vigilante killings, the list goes on and on.  Presidents Bush (the first) and Clinton try to raise money for rebuilding, and the problems persist.  The United Nations goes in and becomes part of the problem.  Days ago, someone is finally held accountable for killing the …

Doing a Job Well Starts with Great Training

            Manchester     One of the best sessions at the recent meeting of ACORN International organizers and leaders was a plenary on the multinational efforts underway to create the ACORN Organizing School.  The moderators were Eloise Maulet, with ReAct Transnational and the Alliance Citoyenne / ACORN France, David Thompson, ACORN International’s …