New Orleans Predictably as the weeks wear on and the weather hardens the city by city campers of the Occupy movement are now enduring the questions from near and far, high and low about how long they can hang in and hang on. Fair enough, perhaps, but we need to keep the radar ready and [...]
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New Orleans The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced with great fanfare a program that would supposedly reduce the “digital divide” between poorer families and the rest of the highly connected rest of the country. Sounds good, but reading the fine print on some of these deals, makes me pretty skeptical, or at least of a [...] New Orleans Having written about the need to sever our bad codependency relationship with big banks that are daily picking our pockets, I hopefully popped up the street to the new offices of my local credit union, ASI. I had good reason to do so. Their sister organization is my landlord and ASI originally [...] New Orleans Credit union and community banks report the number of new accounts opening in October rose to by 13 times the normal rate of increase with over 650,000 new accounts since September 29th when Bank of America announced its (now rescinded) larcenous run on their own customer’s bank accounts through debit card fees. [...] New Orleans For not months but years, we have argued for principal reduction as the only realistic response to the foreclosure and homeowner crises in housing, and I have been clear that the main obstacle has been the collaboration between the banks that don’t want to reduce their balance sheets to reflect reality and the [...] New Orleans I ran home for a minute yesterday to pick up a sweater after the rain brought a cool front into New Orleans. The phone rang. I picked it up, there was silence and then the caller disconnected. I figured it was a bad robo-dial. A minute later there was another call. The caller [...] New Orleans For the last several days way too many of us have left messages on union voice mail machines (gee, no one has anyone answering phones with live people anymore!) all over the United States trying to find union-made sleeping bags and union-made tents for Occupy forces in the Midwest and other colder [...] |
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