New Orleans For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly. Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the [...]
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New Orleans Once again Tahrir Square in Cairo stands for dream of freedom, rather than the disappointment of struggle. Tens of thousands have held the square for days against scores that have died and thousands injured by the military. Finally, the demands have been clear and consistent and directed at the brazen power play [...] New Orleans Certainly it is presumptuous to compare the Civil Rights Movement with the Occupy Movement, but it takes a while to think of another movement in the USA which has gotten more of a boost from police oppression. Occupy seems to find Bull Conners-wannabes everywhere, whether in New York City or now on [...] New Orleans A column by Gerald Seib in the Wall Street Journal focusing on a recent WSJ/NBC poll was largely buried but should be inescapable for anyone trying to really understand what is happening in America today. In his words, “…a deeper look at those who sympathize with those two movements – one largely of [...] New Orleans With the startling police state like efficiency in which Occupy sites in New York, Oakland, and many other cities are now being dismantled, commentators have tried to run a con that, hey, maybe this is good for the movement because now they won’t be so absorbed with protecting a small patch of [...] 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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