Change is Messy

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock       One takeaway from the memorials to civil rights leader and organizer, Congressman John Lewis, has been the repeated invocation of the violence that was the handmaiden of the struggle.  Martin Luther King, Jr. preached nonviolence to anyone who would listen, and, tactically, that became the …

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Counting Matters

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      In yet another concern, with the US election looming ever closer, is a new report that Commerce Department officials and others around the White House are trying to speed up the already troubled census count in order to have it finish early.  This is …

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Lorenzo Milam

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans      Lorenzo Milam has died.  Long live Lorenzo Milam! Wikipedia calls Milam an author and activist, which is true as far as it goes, but in many circles, he was seen almost as the father of community radio, and in that sense we all …

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