New Orleans In organizing, even in the smallest space of a neighborhood, we have always argued that you have to “create a happening” where the coming new organization seems to be everywhere on the tip of tongues, laundromat posters, telephone poles, mailings, and whatever tools could be assembled. The same is true of a political …
Month: April 2012
Is Head Start Obama’s “No Child Left Behind?”
New Orleans HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that about 132 Head Start agencies charged with providing pre-school education for the poor will go through “redesignation.” Redesignation really means that they will lose their contracts and go through a rebidding process because they have been found deficient in some respect. Many of the deficiencies seem …
Are Walmart Executives Being Let Off the Hook Already?
New Orleans $24 million in bribes is not a onetime thing, a rounding error, or a mistake in judgment. It is evidence of company policy and a corporate culture. Walmart has proven that it is trying to buy its way into the Mexican marketplace one bribe at a time, many stores at a time. James Stewart, …