New Orleans There’s no question that among the most serious struggles in the country today is the one being waged by the Standing Rock Sioux and countless others over the Dakota Access Pipeline and the threat it poses to water, land, and sacred sites. There’s also no question that as winter is coming everyone, particularly …
Month: November 2016
New Administration Shaping Up to Be Worse Than Any Might Have Imagined
New Orleans You know it’s bad when hope comes in tiny capsules of news that some of the more horrific proposals by the President-elect like waterboarding will be harder to resuscitate than the Twitterman-in-Chief might have thought. You know it’s bad when you found yourself momentarily rooting for George Romney for Secretary of State so …
Sanctuary Cities and Counties Gearing Up for Anti-Deportation Fight
New Orleans Big cities with large immigrant populations are stepping up and shouting loudly towards Washington that they will refuse to be attack dogs for any new administration initiatives to forcibly deport undocumented workers and families from their jurisdictions. According to an estimate from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an advocacy and legal assistance group …