New Orleans Not too long ago Virginia Organizing, formally the Virginia Organizing Project, celebrated its twentieth anniversary of putting people together to build power for change in that state. You might think that was the occasion for some series planning and thinking about the future, but talking to Executive Director Joe Szakos on Wade’s World …
Month: January 2016
Pictures from New York Public Library Tell Thousands of Words
New Orleans What’s the old saying, a picture can speak a thousand words or something like that? Well, the New York Public Library a couple of days ago dropped 180,000 photos from their collections into the public domain. Any claim to a copyright has long ago expired. The library spent the time and money to …
Is There any Silver Lining in Republican Class Divide?
New Orleans The talking heads, the pollsters and pundits, and political reporters for the largest national newspapers, and one distinguished contributing editor after another have finally come to a consensus that this Donald Trump – Ted Cruz hater machine resonates with the red meat part of their base, and, worse, and these mad dogs want …