New Orleans Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. He made an interesting argument in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that he took to be obvious to any observer that the Democratic Party, that even its standard bearer, Hillary Clinton, had moved decidedly and …
Month: July 2016
Fair Housing Assessment Should be an Organizing Handle – Is it?
New Orleans The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is trying to do something about the continuing polarization of our communities by race, class, and ethnicity, so let’s give them some credit for that. In a new rule last year they tried to put some teeth in the Fair Housing Act of 1968, by …
Republicans Dilemma: Can Fear and Hate Alone Win an Election?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wadesworldjuly22.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having just returned from euro-world, I have to admit that I was surprised I wasn’t asked more questions about Donald Trump. During George W’s time, the questions were endless and strident. War does that to people. Folks brought up Trump for sure, but mostly with …