New Orleans I know Tamecka Pierce, and I also know that this kind of right wing, autocratic, anti-democratic “Watch List” will probably fuel her fires, as it does mine. A friend forwarded this screed over to me this morning. I love the question about whether or not anyone “has been on a board with Wade …
Category: ACORN
Americans Elect and its Spoiler Strategy
NewOrleans Watching Steve Colbert on TV at the gym, I saw a complementary rerun interview with the head spokesperson for Americans Elect (www.americanselect.org). He described their petition effort to establish a 50-state ballot place for a slate of candidates in the 2012 Presidential election. His rap was that this internet facilitated process would be a …
Ripping off Mexican & Caribbean Migrant Workers in Canada
Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers. Recently they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. farmers, would …