Greening the New Deal or the Green New Deal

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11052019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Sure, I’ve read about the Green New Deal.  I know it’s a liberal-left litmus test.  I know US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has derided it as impractical and essentially irrelevant, while others are waving the banner.  I’ve read the arguments that we need to transform …

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Fake Math Drives Bad Policies for the Poor

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11042019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        The old saw reminded us about numbers and other lies, essentially that numbers don’t lie, but liars use numbers. Sad, but true.  I was reminded of this the other day when I read that the U. S. Department of Labor counts an individual as …

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The Young Lords Learn Organizing Basics

Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        First, the disclaimers.  When a story about an event and a political and activist organization fifty years earlier makes a full page in the New York Times, we must all realize that this is not real news, but heavily processed information through the perspective …

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