New Orleans Time to pack for Arizona! It’s important to join the mobilization on May 29th with the assembled forces to stand and protest against the implementation of SB 1070, the anti-immigrant, racial profiling bill that is terrorizing good people in Arizona. I was surprised talking to a friend in Arizona yesterday when she told …
Author: wade
MMS is an Oil Environmental Mess
New Orleans We had hardly landed in New Orleans before we wanted to know, “What was the real update on the British Petroleum oil disaster on the Louisiana and Gulf Coast?” Thirty days on and it was a mess and getting messier. Nothing seemed to more epitomize this oily environmental disaster than the leaked copies …
Child Care and the Collapse of the Safety Net
New York City The severity of the Great Recession is finally stripping away the pretense that there was anything like real welfare reform in recent years as opposed to sufficient tinkering with an expanding job market that allowed many to go to work with the thin threads of support offered by the state. Hopefully this …