Buenos Aires I want to share how exciting it was to be with the organizing committee in the Isidor Casanova district of the mega-slum, La Matanza, yesterday as they planned their first major campaign to clean up the fouled, garbage laden dump that their river has become, but that will have to wait until [...]
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Langston Hughes Poem Orange Beach When looking at the Senate’s Saturday work, it’s important to remember the difference between people who volunteered and those who didn’t. In DADT we are talking about some protection and relief for brave men and women who volunteered to serve and die for our country. The defeat of the [...] New Orleans Discussion of an independent party or a party caucus focusing on Latinos and modeled on the success of the Tea Party has now lept into public view. A story on debates within the community about a possible “Tequila Party” was reported in a piece by Delen Goldberg in the Las Vegas Sun over [...] New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at [...] New Orleans The California Supreme Court yesterday became one of the few bright spots in the dark tunnel that immigrants are facing for any kind of justice or resolution given the political storm clouds hovering everywhere. The Californians ruled that it would be discriminatory to deny California residents scholarship support from state institutions because [...] 2008 Electoral Map New Orleans The headline writers had it easy last night. All they had to do was figure out different ways to say that the Republicans kicked Democrat butt last night, and, oh, yeah, don’t kid yourself, this was a referendum on the Obama presidency and politics, and voters were not happy [...] |
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