Tyronza, Arkansas Working closely with Sam Mitchell of Ottawa, Ontario since the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, we have been stewarding the H.L. Mitchell Scholarship Fund in honor of his father, one of the founders and the long time chief organizer of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU), who I tracked down and got …
Month: June 2011
Alternative News, The Lens, and Hope for the Future
New Orleans For some time I had been getting a fairly regular email from something in New Orleans called The Lens. It was something like a web newspaper without being on paper and normally being slim pickings of just a couple of stories. They seemed to have some stories worth a look on the Orleans …
New loan restrictions will violate the Community Reinvestment Act
New Orleans Sometimes they simply protest too much, and sometimes strange bedfellows are simply bedfellows caught strangely. This would be my summary on the team being put together to in Washington to whine about some of the new mortgage lending rules that the Mortgage Bankers Association, never a group that I would pick for the …