New Orleans What in the world is “reflective listening?” I stumbled onto the concept looking up a word while reading an article about how volunteers were trained to handle a crisis text line used largely by younger people from teens through their twenties. The purpose was to defuse depression, prevent suicide, and in many cases …
Month: February 2015
Is Affordable Housing Being Crucified by Inequality
New Orleans Increasingly it seems that we are going to have to decouple the issue of home ownership and affordable housing at least in the traditional sense of small footprints in the dirt with picket fences around them. Home ownership due to harder loan standards, tighter credit, and the Great Recession has now fallen to …
Selma for Organizers
New Orleans The movie, Selma, has attracted some attention and controversy. There were no nominations for best director or best movie and in fact for the first time in decades all of the Academy Awards were as lily white as the management structures of the big movie studios. Others thought President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t get a fair shake …