Breaux Bridge It was time for my mother to have a change of scenery, so we headed for Acadiana. The fact that the air conditioning didn’t work in her car made the trip that much more authentic. Reminded me of a million years ago when we would drive to see my grandparents in California …
Month: July 2008
COSATU Squeezing Mugabe
New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) took a delegation of community and labor organizers to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, for a series of fascinating meetings with community based organizations and unions. We were there at the 10th anniversary of liberation and were fascinated by the three-legged stool that formed …
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New Orleans There is something quintessentially New Orleans about meeting at Cafe du Monde in the heart of the French Quarter on a steamy July morning just as the waiters are pulling chairs off the tables having hosed down the patio for another day. It was there that I enjoyed a cup of black …