New Orleans There are some things about the rise of smartphones and their ubiquitous cameras fueling social networking that seems distorting. To see a crowd shot of a demonstration by workers at the Los Angeles City Council or a stem winder of a political speech at a rally and have your eyes see scores of …
Month: May 2015
The Clock Keeps Ticking and Investigations Continue on Assange and Snowden
New Orleans Whatever happened to Julian Assange of Wiki-leaks and Edward Snowden of NSA mega-leaks? Well, Assange has now done 1000 days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he received political asylum, and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been given a 3-year visitor visa. Amazingly, though the investigations by the USA and …
A Desktop Museum is an Interesting Notion
Little Rock ACORN created the Fifteen Street Corporation to buy a building at 523 West 15th in the mid-1970’s, which housed all of the various operations of our family of organizations including not only Arkansas ACORN but also KABF/FM, Local 100, and at various times our training institute, housing corporation, and random tenants. The building’s …