New Orleans We had rented a 15-passenger van equipped with a 5-speed transmission, thankfully, and powered by diesel which actually meant that we were hardly able to climb the constant mountain ridges in Tegucigalpa and past that to Marcala where we were to visit our friends the women coffee growers of COMUCAP. We had stopped …
Month: May 2011
The Gates Foundation is Pimping Educational “Reform”
New Orleans Reading back newspapers on my return from Honduras as always are an education. Seems to be some rich fellows out there in business and politics who think that they have a “do anything I want” card that will let them out of every jam in life. They almost seem surprised that regular people …
Finally Days of Reckoning for Hijacked New Orleans School System
New Orleans In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the State of Louisiana conspired with various conservative interests to break the largest union in the state, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO/AFT), fire 7500 school district employees, many of whom were members, remove democratic accountability in a state coup against the elected school board, and …