New Orleans Sometimes it comes down to who you know, not what you can do, and in those circumstances when the screws start turning from the City paymasters, the favored few sometimes just start making up shit to save themselves rather than the families they are meant to serve. This week I’ve had to read about …
Month: March 2012
No End to Recession without a Solution to Housing Crisis
New Orleans I’m going to keep this short and sweet, and the message will be clear. The economy in the USA is showing some signs of improvement. More jobs are coming into the statistics. The President is getting a bounce in his step. This is all good news. Obama will have trouble winning without these …
Fair Grinds Dialogue: Dialing Back to Desire and the Panthers
New Orleans My old friend and fellow labor activist, now retired from the postal workers union, Stanley Taylor, late in the 4th ,Fair Grinds Dialogue, reminded the assembled, rapt crowd, that “those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. Some nodded approvingly, but for most his comment was simply more sound in the …