New Orleans The Federal Consumer Protection Bureau is looking into the issue of “blacklisting” by banks when some consumers try to open checking accounts. If you are lucky, you may ask, what are they talking about, aren’t banks in the business of providing customer service through individual checking accounts? Oh, child, you are …
Month: October 2014
Cross Cultural Translation English to American and Back Again
New Orleans Talking to my friends and hosts in the United Kingdom over the last ten days one of the things that was the most fun was the cross cultural English-to-English translation we had to do. This is the kind of thing my dad would have found fascinating on my return from any trip overseas. …
Visiting with Hackney Unites in London
London Hackney is one of those classic neighborhood names that invariably calls to mind London, so it was a treat to get to walk around the neighborhood a little bit, sit in the CLR James Library, which turned out to be a story in itself, and then to meet with fifty members and activists that make …