US Police Roots Spring from Slavery

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     We would all love to simply believe that the police are there, and have always been there, as the slogan goes, “to serve and protect.”  Jill Lepore, the noted Harvard historian and frequent New Yorker indefatigable and invaluable contributor, in a recent piece in …

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Counting Matters

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      In yet another concern, with the US election looming ever closer, is a new report that Commerce Department officials and others around the White House are trying to speed up the already troubled census count in order to have it finish early.  This is …

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The West Stays Weird

DC Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      We humped the highway back home through Texas.  It was a great trip.  It was time.   We have some observations for what they are worth. We read that the governor of New Mexico is angling for a job in a potential, hoped for Biden …

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