Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held in Milwaukee and it gave me an excuse for several days to see what was really happening here at ground zero in the class war that …
Tag: Social Policy
Continued Conservative Retrenchment in Catholic Anti-Poverty Fund
New Orleans Someone deserves credit, and I’m betting that someone is James Salt, the energetic director of Catholics United, for exposing the increasingly desperate, rightwing inspired, guilt-by-association style attacks on social change groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The New York Times ran a front page piece about a Colorado immigrant …
Visiting Highlander and Thinking about Power and the Powerless in Memphis
New Market I couldn’t remember my last visit to the Highlander Center, but it had to have been in the last century. Little had really changed. The same bunk beds, rocking chairs, and great views of the Cumberland Mountains were still there. Finally thanks to towers popping up like weeds on the hillsides …