New Orleans Two months after the Katrina we were finally able to make our way back down to New Orleans and spend a night in our own home in our own bed for the first time on Saturday night. I went by the rally called by ACORN, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the NAACP, and others on the …
Month: October 2005
Wal-Mart Don’t Like Ugly!
Baton Rouge Wal-Mart had been on a charm offensive since Hurricane Katrina trying to prove to an increasingly doubtful public that it was about something more than cutting prices and pinching pennies at the expense of its workers. Over the last week they have been trying to weather a firestorm initiated by the release of an …
Darkness
Baton Rouge and New Orleans In mid-afternoon I pulled out of Baton Rouge for New Orleans and broke through the traffic gridlock that surrounds Louisiana’s capitol now. It was the kind of bright, clear early fall day that makes New Orleans so special. The stench was everywhere around the office. Gene’s Poor-boy Shop had refused to …