New Orleans When we can muster up the attention span to read past the latest Mueller investigation activity and the Trump tantrums, we can see what Congress is doing to try to make life easier for the banks and gut Dodd-Frank requirements that force them to pay more attention in class rather than going the …
Month: April 2018
The Pope’s Talking, Let’s Hope Somebody is Listening!
New Orleans Pope Francis isn’t perfect. None of them are. All the same, it’s hard not to root for the guy, give him an attaboy and hope he pushes the Catholic Church and its parishioners to demand more social justice and social change. The Pope issued something called an apostolic exhortation which is several degrees …
National Eviction Crisis Finally in the Headlines
New Orleans In the ACORN Home Savers Campaign we’ve learned a lot about the contemporary issues for lower income families struggling with the potentially predatory nature of land contracts as a route to home ownership, but in doing the organizing we have been constantly confronted with the reality that the real trigger for forcing people …