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New Orleans Nothing about the Cameron government “Big Society” initiative to insert community organizers into poor areas around the United Kingdom seemed very organic or likely to succeed once the real deal started to crystallize. Going from a 5000 organizer initiative over four years would mean producing an average of only 125 per year. [...] New Orleans Headlines blaring that Britain’s leaders were “caught unprepared” at the outbreak of riots throughout metropolitan London and now spreading to Birmingham were surprising to me. Persistent, structural unemployment, marginalized housing and living conditions, no prospects for the future, severe and draconian austerity cutbacks in social services and family support, are all coming [...] New Orleans If any readers of the Sunday New York Times Sunday Review section could get by the devastating critique of the Obama “narrative” and therefore Administration and leadership by Drew Westen or the even more shattering, full color satirical cartoon on how to “survive” the continuing recession, they might have stumbled onto the [...] New Orleans Off and on for a week from folks living in Arkansas, Montana, and Colorado, we kept hearing about this show they were all watching on the History Channel, called Swamp People. Since we were representing Louisiana on Rock Creek, there was an expectation that we were big fans of the show or [...] Missoula Standing in the cold, clear water as it rushes by and pushes your knees around while you try to balance on glassy rocks with a rod in your hand and all manner of stuff strapped, suicide bomber like to your body, you are perfectly clear this is not your natural environment. Gutting a beautiful [...] |
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