New Orleans Real estate associations of landlords, developers and the politicians they finance can scream about supply and demand and straight-laced economics, but as long as tenants are being squeezed by escalating rents and stagnant wages in the United States and around the world, the demand for rent controls will rise as quickly. Voters may once …
Month: February 2018
Updates on Banks as Criminal Enterprises: More Wells Fargo Mess
New Orleans The old adage that “what goes around, comes around” applies nicely to Wells Fargo, long in our experience one of the pariahs of banking and a shameless purveyor of predatory products and lending, long a target of ACORN campaigns. Recent years have seen their corrupt culture begin to catch up with the San …
Gene Sharp, Nonviolence Evangelist
New Orleans Gene Sharp was not well-known, except where it mattered, and that was among the groups of activists here and abroad who tried to strategize about how to make change when faced with oppressive, often dictatorial, governments against amazing odds. He wrote a shelf full of books about nonviolence. Evangelizing, theorizing, and advising on …