New Orleans Finally, the big-time money transfer organizations and the gazillions in predatory profits for moving money for migrant workers and immigrant families are at least hearing our footprints coming after them in the distance. Several months ago Ontario NDP Member of Parliament Jagmeet Singh introduced a bill we had collaborated in writing under the …
Month: September 2012
Shifting Political Values: Public Schooled and American Made
Toronto In American public and political life there used to be some clear tests that determined whether you were “one of us” or “one of them,” whether you were progressive or conservative, stood with the people or stood with special interests. These markers were so stark and clear that a generation ago it would have …
Forgiving Interest and Amnesty for Student Debt Fines and Penalties
Toronto A trillion dollars in student debt is on the books in the USA. The Department of Education paid $1.4 billion to bloodsucking debt collection agencies last year. Debt collectors refer to the process as “lip smacking,” an “oil well” of opportunity, and so forth. The government claims it will collect almost 85 cents on …