New Orleans Here’s an interesting twist on the Haitian disaster where 3 million people may now be homeless and essentially living as refugees in their own homes and country: support squatters’ rights. A least that’s the argument made as one of the rebuilding contributions on the op-ed page of the New York Times today by …
Tag: dominican republic
Visiting Santiago Vecinos
Santiago Meetings with the staff are important god knows, and we had lots of those on tap, but when the bell rang to jump in the van to go tour the neighborhoods with the members and get a feel on the ground for the work of ACORN Dominican Republic in Santiago, we were are raring …
Reunion
Santiago I flew into Puerto Plata, an airport and tourist destination on the northern part of the island of the Dominican Republic. This made sense because I was going to rendezvous with the ACORN Canada staff and fly out with them on Sunday to Toronto and take advantage of cheaper tickets. It had been a …