New Orleans In The Battle for the Ninth Ward: ACORN, The Rebuilding of New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster, published last year, I had added the Lessons appendix as more and more community-based organizations sought to meet the challenges of the unexpected natural disasters that are cropping up all around us, whether in the …
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Props to Barnes & Nobel’s Leo Riggio from New Orleans!
New Orleans Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong, and in this case, I’m glad to not only say it, but offer some heartfelt praise to Leo Riggio of Barnes & Noble and family for having done the right thing for the right reasons in the right way for the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans in …
Changing the Paradigm on Resources for Organizing
New Orleans I will talk about this a lot more, and I’ve been talking about this a lot before, but the article in Sunday’s Times-Picayune is a flashing neon sign that I’m going “all in” on a number of bets that recognize that we have to change the paradigm of resources to organizing domestically and …