Lanny Roy Was A Peoples’ Warrior

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12162019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Lake Charles is a medium-sized city of nearly 80,000 people, the fifth largest in Louisiana, close to the Texas border.  It’s the home of oil refineries and chemical plants.  Texans driving over the border made casinos big business for a while.  In recent years, …

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Forty Years and Counting

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New Orleans        I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …

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