New Orleans It probably goes without saying that we’re a long way from Hollywood, but recently we got to watch a sneak preview of a rough cut of a documentary called MisLead, The Secret Epidemic being produced by the nonprofit Lead Safe America Foundation and its director, and filmmaker, Tamara Rubin, from Portland, Oregon. As …
Month: February 2014
Academic Proof Finally that More Diversity Equals More Community
New Orleans On the streets in lower income and working communities, a generation of community organizers has argued that, everything being equal, our gumbo neighborhoods of mixed and matched families, races, and ethnicities in fact work, and work well, when people are able to organize together and act collectively. The academic community has not been very …
Hard Fight on Eminent Domain to Stop Foreclosures Still Raging in Richmond
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wadesworldfeb7.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Some months ago the City of Richmond in California, long seen as little more than a company town for the giant oil conglomerate, Chevron, rose to the attention of millions of families still trying to sort out the problems of threatened foreclosures. Richmond uniquely …