Cruel and Usual Punishment for Prisoners

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River      Just when you might think things can’t get any worse, it turns out you don’t know half of it.  At least, that’s how I felt visiting with Professor Nick Zaller on Wade’s World.  Zaller is a well-regarded and oft-cited researcher and professor of public …

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Charity for Whom?

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09252020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      Representatives from ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and the Arkansas Community Organizations stood in front of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Little Rock.  The same group was front and center at Ocshner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans along with …

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SEC Makes Shareholder “Democracy” Just for the Big Boys

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09242020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      Corporate chieftains’ claims that there is even such a thing as shareholder democracy has always been akin to an edict pronounced at a North Korean military parade to the assembled masses.  The notion that the little shareholder has a voice in corporate governance is …

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