Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held in Milwaukee and it gave me an excuse for several days to see what was really happening here at ground zero in the class war that …
Month: April 2012
Corporations and Foundations OK with ALEC on Voter Suppression, Not Killing
New Orleans The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has glowingly taken credit for many of the bills sweeping newly elected Republican state houses. ALEC and its 2000 legislative members has long been the driver of the far right agenda. Finally, they have been forced to retreat from published reports because of the withdrawal of foundation …
Cost of Higher Education Stirring Students to Streets in Montreal
New Orleans I had not been paying enough attention to a random piece about students rallying in Montreal until my coattails were pulled the other day by a friend and colleague, Eric Shragg, who is a professor, author, and activist in that city. In a brief email he mentioned that the increase in US-terms was …