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 [...]
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Finding Transcendent Issues in Sicily and Occupy NOLa Palermo The Movimenti Civici di Sicilia or Civic Movement of Sicily had called together 40 of its key leaders and activists from throughout Sicily to participate in a workshop with me about strategy and tactics in building a more substantial movement for change city by city in [...] New Orleans I haven’t been able to bring myself to see, The Help, a movie ostensibly set in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi where a young, white writer gives voice to her African-American maid friends during the Civil Rights era. Fantasy has little appeal for me. I did go to see the Gary [...] New Orleans Early this week H&R Block finally threw in the towel and announced that they would totally discontinue RALs for this coming tax season on 2011 returns. After seven (7) years we can finally count coup on a total victory that once preyed on lower income and desperate families for close to half-a-billion dollars [...] New Orleans I will talk about this a lot more, and I’ve been talking about this a lot before, but the article in Sunday’s Times-Picayune is a flashing neon sign that I’m going “all in” on a number of bets that recognize that we have to change the paradigm of resources to organizing domestically [...] New Orleans I know Tamecka Pierce, and I also know that this kind of right wing, autocratic, anti-democratic “Watch List” will probably fuel her fires, as it does mine. A friend forwarded this screed over to me this morning. I love the question about whether or not anyone “has been on a board with Wade [...] |
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