New Orleans. There was the Detroit Mayor and now it seems we will have the New Orleans City Council simply unable to exercise good judgment once their hands grab the keys to send an email or tap out a text or blackberry message. Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial (and now head of the National [...]
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New Orleans The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) slapped around General Mills and its Cherrios’ cereal for making inflated health claims about reducing cholesterol, making those little “o’s” something more like a drug than food. Ironically, this news hit at the same time as the stories on the passing of Robert Choate, the consumer food [...] New Orleans A classic organizing problem has always been how do popular forces leverage local strength around global concerns? This question has always been difficult as anti-war forces saw most recently in trying to raise issues around Iraq and as 60’s veterans vividly remember from the protests to stop the Viet Nam war a [...] New Orleans We saw two back-to-back powerful movies, Sin Nombre and Gomorrah, both of which spoke profoundly and movingly to our work and why it is so life-and-death to our people. Sin Nombre was an extra treat because the writer and director, Cary Fukunaga, was in the audience and answered questions at the end [...] New Orleans Recently in Delhi all of us as organizers of ACORN India greeted the news that the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) was allowing the urban poor without home addresses to register for voting cards with great excitement. Dharmendra Kumar, Hina Sheikh, and Prachee Sinha all attended a meeting while I was in India [...] New Orleans Ok, how many times will I ever get to blow this horn – not many probably, so…hey, the ACORN Foundation documentary done by our friend, Parasher has been invited to be shown in the prestigious Munich Film Festival this summer on a special invitation. [...] St. Petersburg Meeting with the WARN (Worker Action and Research Network) staff yesterday in St. Pete, we found ourselves talking about Wal-Mart and the organizing challenge represented by huge retail employers like W-M in the US and Canada. All of which brings up the daunting issue of labor law reform and [...] New Orleans Once one gets past the ideological opposition some have towards eligible citizens gaining full access to all of the income supports available, we are still faced with the cost of infrastructure and the capacity to enroll the vast numbers who are unserved. In my book, [...] |
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