New Orleans You get the feeling that the popular Republican political embrace of “servant” leadership is more like a simple handshake or an air kiss than a full pressure bear hug. Too many of them seem to be saying, well “me first” and then, hey, if I have time, I might squeeze in a couple …
Author: wade
The Right Wing’s Marriage Paradox
New Orleans One of the most interesting social changes whose long shadows go back to the dam burst of social values in the 1960’s is the long lasting disaffection with the institution of marriage. Not being a marriage booster (why surrender to the “oppression of the Church and State?”), I follow all of these numbers …
Winning Land Rights and Municipal Services in Isidro Casanova
Buenos Aires We had traveled almost an hour an a half when Yadira, the organizer for ACORN Argentina in La Matanza, waved us off the bus, and we began walking several kilometers until we came to a concrete walled drainage ditch that was once a river running along homes, farms, and industrial plants, but was …