New Orleans ACORN International and its affiliates in numerous countries have been hammering away at the cost of remittances for several years now and often all we have to show for the effort has been some dents in the wall and bruises on our foreheads. We’ve succeeded in getting legislation introduced in different provinces and …
Category: ACORN
Black Conservatives Fund: ACORN “Ghostbusters!”
New Orleans Every once in a while something comes over the transom that is so wildly ridiculous, it approaches the sublime. A longtime colleague, Mike Stagg, now living and working in the Lafayette area, forwarded me a link to a piece run by the TPM website which occasionally monitors weird and wacky rightwing solicitations. This …
Neoliberal FCC Half-Step to Low Income Access to the Internet
New Orleans It would be nice to read the report of a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and embrace it with open arms and a wide smile. After all even a small step forward in bridging the digital divide is important, but this will be a half-step at that, and it’s easy to …