New Orleans October 15, 2011 was our first day running Fair Grinds Coffeehouse in New Orleans, the only 100% fairtrade coffeehouse in the city. The name, we inherited with the sale, was a mashup of fairtrade coffee, and the fact that we were only a couple of blocks from the Fair Grounds horse …
Category: Community Organizing
Fighting Holiday and Second Homes
Heerlen One of the more interesting campaigns that ACORN has engaged in Britain, in the ongoing housing crisis over the shortage of affordable homes and rental units, focuses on the explosion of second homes and holiday homes. Holiday homes are a pleasant-sounding euphemism for what would be known in the US as Airbnb’s and other …
Radio, Still Invaluable for Keeping in Touch with the Truth
Carlsbad, NM While reading about the cyberattacks, front and center, as well as out of sight, in the terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine as I flew to El Paso, I noticed an interesting piece in a recent Economist entitled “Skywaves and Satellites: Technologies old and new may help keep …