New Orleans We are now several weeks past Black Friday, the annual shopping extravaganza that seems to defy logic, but one hardcore, working mother desperate for Christmas bargains defined it as her annual “Super Bowl of shopping.” Walmart company representatives have described this year’s day after Thanksgiving shopping blowout as their best ever. OUR …
Month: December 2013
Of Course Corporate Contributions are About Buying Access and Influence
Memphis It’s interesting to watch the Washington two-step ignited by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s pushback against outside groups trying to mobilize against her progressive advocacy and the by catch of other fish squirming in her net. To refresh your memory when the Third Way, a group of more conservative sometime Democrats, pushed against her more populist …
What Went Wrong with Memphis and the Mid-America Mall Desert?
Memphis The ACORN Canada organizing staff held its Year End/Year Begin staff meeting in Memphis with a side trip to Little Rock this year. Among the highlights of the meetings in Memphis were visits at the University of Memphis with ex-Texas and South Dakota ACORN organizer, Steve Soifer, now head of the Social Work Department …