West Palm Beach People are pretty excited here South Florida about the Miami Heat’s victory at least folks who actually live here, since the airports and highways seem to be swarming with folks sick of the cold country looking for warmer weather and mainly willing to memorialize the sun itself this weekend. Add to that …
Author: wade
Banks Silently Step up on Remittances
Atlanta On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) we have had difficulty getting any response from the big banks except in the most cursory terms. Wells Fargo did finally reply and told us they were doing great within a small footprint of countries. Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase were stone silent. Not surprisingly given …
The Commonplace of Violence in Political Culture
New Orleans We had rented a 15-passenger van equipped with a 5-speed transmission, thankfully, and powered by diesel which actually meant that we were hardly able to climb the constant mountain ridges in Tegucigalpa and past that to Marcala where we were to visit our friends the women coffee growers of COMUCAP. We had stopped …