Charlotte Pat McCoy, the executive director of Action NC, and I visited with a class of students at Charlotte School of Law who were trying to learn the often delicate dance required of partnering with community organizations, offering stories and advice, even if perhaps not helpfully in some cases. More fruitfully, we talked about campaigns …
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Remembering the Great Art Martin
New Orleans In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock. The …