Toronto Preparing to meet with the ACORN International “intern army,” as I call them, at George Brown College today, I couldn’t help but laugh while using the Starbucks internet (thanks, fellas!) when I read that Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase was over at Davos complaining about “banker bashing” and France’s President Sarkozy was forced …
Month: January 2011
Impacting Healthcare: Organizing Medical “Hotspots”
Toronto Dr. Atul Gawande writing in the current issue of The New Yorker (1/24/11) interjects himself once again into the national (global?) health care debate by pointing out that hard data often reveals, as it did in Camden, New Jersey, that as much as 30% of health care costs are generated by as few as …
Power and Paradox of Cloward & Piven “Breaking the Bank” Strategy
Toronto Fran Piven is a brilliant scholar and political theorist, still vitally engaged at the cutting edges of her work while still affiliated with CUNY’s Graduate Center, and someone I count as colleague and friend over our 40 years. We spoke months ago. She called for advice about how to handle the sudden interest in …