New Orleans Rinku Sen somehow had perfect timing. She happened to be in New Orleans as a board member for Restaurant Opportunities Center and its national operations, but as an author sharing the same publisher (www.bkconnection.com) and editor of Colorlines, she and I were having lunch on the day we sent Social Policy to press …
Author: wade
Savings Bonds and Citizen Wealth
New Orleans Visiting with friends at the Interfaith Worker Justice confab at Tulane last evening, Jeff Zinsmeyer, a long esteemed colleague came up and said hello. We sat down and visited for a little along with Henry Allen of the Discount Foundation based in Boston. I had stumbled onto a project of Jeff’s, while writing …
Called to Nineveh
New Orleans The Interfaith Workers’ Justice network was having a summit at Tulane University in New Orleans and its director, Kim Bobo, and communications guy, Danny Postel, invited us to come down for the plenary Saturday night. The summit had included a number of worker center and day labor activists and old friends like Jim …