Housing Crisis Forcing Rich Cities to Get Smaller

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        A reporter, Jed Kolko, with the New York Times seems to be connecting the dots in an interesting and important way.  In a recent article about some of the unintended consequences of geographic inequality being concentrated in certain cities, he pointed out several things.  …

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Deliberate Governmental Opaqueness and Obfuscation

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       It’s one thing to feel powerless in the face of government like the Chinese ophthalmologist who died of the coronavirus after being reprimanded for warning colleagues in his hospital.  Poignantly, he said, “every country needs more than one voice.”  This is why we build …

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Foundations as “Extensions” of Corporate Reach

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans   Foundations created by corporations and the superrich are multi-headed monster of tax havens and public relations that combine to whitewash a story for the people down below that makes us swallow rather than spit.  The latest examples have Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s …

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