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Delhi The Times of India and the Hindustan Times, among the largest papers in the world, were filled with incredulous and fawning stories on Sunday of a rarity in modern, big business India: a simple protest that ignited real change in the culture of political corruption. Most of [...] Delhi More than 35 years ago I was invited by Drummond Pike, then of the West Coast office of the Youth Project, to do some training with a rag tap bunch of ranchers sons and daughters, activists, environmentalists, and organizers in Billings, Montana with a fledgling Northern Plains Resource Council that [...] New York Yevgenia Chirikova while she was speaking to Organizers' Forum delegation in Moscow in 2007. City In the fall of 2007 a delegation of labor and community organizers with the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) visited with organizers doing similar work in Moscow and St. Petersburg. One of the more moving meetings we had was with [...] New Orleans Ideologues with chips on their shoulders about the nation’s public school systems seem committed to doing everything possible to make sure there’s no level playing field to allow comparison of charter school performance as opposed to regular school district performances. Reading the hometown paper in New Orleans, there was an item a week [...] New Orleans We have finally reached bottom. I heard the splash, so we can measure exactly how far it is from normal to wacko crazy at Fox News finally when Glenn Beck and his maddening fantasy and conspiracy tour turned out to be even too much for Fox to handle. Turns out [...] New Orleans I have often quoted a line by a former Republican OMB director that we should “never suffer from premature certainty,” and given the disaster that banks, the Treasury Department, the Bush and Obama Administrations, and the servicers have made of the housing crises and its millions of homeowner victims, I almost hesitate [...] M-PESA New Orleans The bleeding edge hope for technology in handling finance is often seen as Africa and more specifically Kenya and very pointedly mobile phones. To the degree a mobile phone system could obviate having bank accounts and ease the problems and costs of money transfer for remittances, this could be a good news [...] New Orleans On ACORN International’s research projects over the last six months, I have often credited our “intern army” of young interns and older researchers. I’m now “crowdsourcing” more research. Today thanks go to Jesse Ginsburg, a hard luck Baltimore Orioles diehard fan (congrats on their hot opening this season!) who sent me a [...] |
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