New Orleans Frank Bardacke’s Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers is a mountain of a book at 800 pages. Reportedly, it took Bardacke fifteen years to write and was edited down from twice that length. A friend said to me recently that he believed it might be …
Month: August 2013
The Deepening Injustice and Illegality of Congressional Anti-ACORN Bans
New Orleans The original Congressional budget ban on “ACORN, its affiliates, and allied organizations” continues to be renewed annually in different ways by the eager beaver hater brigade in Congress, and was done so again recently, reportedly for the thirteenth time since 2009. I decided to take a list at the 2009 original ban list …
Cop Shops and Civil Forfeiture Scandals
New Orleans One of our continuing definitions of humanity has to be our ability to still be surprised and shocked at injustice. Reading an article by Sarah Stillman in the New Yorker entitled “Taken” about the criminal scams being pulled off right and left, high and low by police departments to seize the money, property, …