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Embracing Your Percentage
New Orleans The Times ran a story that tried to put a face on the 1% and encourage us to embrace our inner percentage. There are two ways to approach looking at these numbers around the country, and...
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Comcast Using Deceptive Advertising, Bait-and-Switch
New Orleans Among other things Comcast provides internet service. As we have discussed previously, they promised to provide internet access to lower income families for $9.95 and connect the same...
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Comcast, Internet, Arrogance, and Free Speech
New Orleans Another day, another dollar in Comcast land where it turns out in their view of the world, no promises need be kept, customers should pay and not be heard, government is only for them,...
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More Heat on Comcast without Much Light from FCC
New Orleans When a delegation of members from ACTION United showed up with baloney sandwiches at the Pittsburgh City Council meeting, the Council asked them to address the body and expressed concern...
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How Could a Comcast Lobbyist End Up at FCC?
New Orleans We had a good, but troubling, meeting with organizers from Houston, Little Rock, Shreveport, New Orleans and elsewhere about how to proceed to lower the digital divide and access lower...
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More Excuses from Comcast
Local 100 and Arkansas Community Organizations Coalition Reps after Comcast Meeting New Orleans The meetings get larger, but the results do not seem to change. The long delayed meeting between Local...
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Liberia, Fusion, Comcast, Cox, and Times-Warner
George Kieh, spearheading ACORN International's Liberia project, holding a copy of Global grassroots, and Wade Philadelphia The uncharacteristic Spring heat wave was broken by some rain making a...
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Is the Occupy Movement Dead, Alive, or Being Reborn?
Little Rock The Occupy Little Rock (OLR) encampment is close to celebrating its 6-month anniversary and still ensconced firmly in their space near the Interstate and not far from the Clinton...
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Little Rock Reminders of the Shoulders Where We All Stand
Little Rock One of the interesting things about a city the size of Little Rock, and perhaps one of the little understood secrets of ACORN’s growth and success there after its founding in 1970, is...
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Fighting for the Last Housing Project, Marshall Islands Arkansas, Chinese...
70 year old housing development, Dixie Homes, demolished in Memphis New Orleans I went to sleep with firecrackers booming over the Mississippi River and woke up to chickens crowing in the yard next...
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Remembering the Great Art Martin
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...
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The Challenges of Community Radio as a Voice of Regular People
Little Rock KABF is a 29-year old noncommercial radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas. The station is 88.3 on the FM side of the dial with 100,000 watts of full power broadcasting throughout...
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Stop the Guerrilla War Against Obamacare, Let My People Live!
Little Rock Being a commuter these days between New Orleans and Little Rock, it is interesting to watch the convolutions that Arkansas and its legislature are going through to try and fashion a...
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Crowdfunding for For-Profits
Little Rock I was lucky to be in Little Rock last night so that I could stop by the second annual “truth teller” award ceremony and fundraiser for the Arkansas Community Organizations, formerly...
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Sprawling Roads to Nowhere
LONG GONE: Ninth Street in its heyday. Little Rock These days planners and speculators would be hard pressed to imagine that they could figure out a way to easily intersect cities with ribbons of...
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Ghostbusters in Radio World
New Orleans Over the last couple of years as I’ve acted as station manager of KABF 88.3/FM, the “voice of the people” broadcasting at 100,000 watts from Little Rock, Arkansas and live streaming,...
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Visiting with the Old Hands: Sue Hanna Marquess and Melva Harmon
Quick reunion with veterans of ACORN’s early years when they were VISTA volunteers working as ACORN organizers, Melva Harmon and Sue Hanna Marquess, in Little Rock at Community Bakery. New Orleans...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Fighting Blockbusting is Residential Diversity
New Orleans Studies of the largest 100 school districts in the United States indicate that there is such extensive re-segregation that schools are more segregated now than they were almost 50 years...
View ArticleLeaders Assess Progress and Map Out Plans
Baton Rouge Thirty Local 100 United Labor Union leaders gathered together for the 36th annual leadership conference for the union, this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Leaders were there from Little...
View ArticleMore Lead Drama in Schools, but More Progress
New Orleans Why aren’t all school districts in the country simply crying “Uncle” and conceding that they will test all of their schools for lead in the water? They must know this is a tide coming...
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