March 19, 2021 New Orleans It seems almost impossible to believe that one-year after the pandemic virtually shut down the whole country and a good part of the world that we have not one but a handful of available vaccines, and yet we’re still caught in ongoing vaccine drama-rama. In a worldwide crisis, we …
Month: March 2021
Trailer Park Tenant Blues
March 18, 2021 New Orleans I remember well when Montana Peoples’ Action, an ACORN associate organization, and Jim Fleischman, a longtime ACORN organizer, put together tenant associations in a bunch of towns not only in Missoula, but scattered around that part of the state in the late 1980s. I listened with interest more recently …
Restoring Voting Rights to Former Felons
March 17, 2021 New Orleans In these times when a number of states are trying to curtail voting rights for their citizens, the governor of Virginia made some news by speeding up the process for former felons to vote in that state. By making the review of a former prisoner’s status immediately after release …