New Orleans It was shocking today to read that the Komen Foundation, well known for its ubiquitous “pink” crusade against breast cancer, in the most craven way caved into right-wing pressure and unilaterally defunded Planned Parenthood. Komen has been increasingly controversial in the anti-cancer health movement for emphasizing marketing and branding over research and cures, [...]
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New Orleans Suze Orman has made her reputation as a TV financial advisor. Now she wants to promote a debit card for low-and-moderate income families who have weak credit and want the ability to operate differently. Her Approved card needs to be renamed as the Improved card, but it’s still not a good card, or [...] New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” [...] New Orleans ACORN was a great organization and some of the gifts from its membership to their neighbors and co-workers keep on giving, despite the fact that the organization shut its doors 13 months ago in the United States. No better example can be found in the automatic increases in [...] Little Rock We were visiting in the old Little Rock ACORN office about books, campaigns, and organizing. This conversation led to an invitation by Robert Nunn, son of an Arkansas ACORN leader from the old Oak Forest group and the anti-blockbusting campaign and old friend from 40 years ago, Walter Nunn, to come down and [...] Little Rock It was exciting to be back in Little Rock visiting with a combination of old ACORN leaders and organizers, city and neighborhood activists, Local 100 ULU organizers and leaders, and others. The excuse for the meeting in the old Arkansas ACORN building and board conference room, surrounded by posters and pictures of campaigns [...] 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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