New Orleans Here’s an interesting idea worth some thought: creating and measuring a civic footprint. I had an interesting meeting on Saturday (www.mylifecity.com) about the “green footprint” of the coffeehouse, which involves everything from measuring carbon usage, utility utilization, composting, and whatnot. On Sunday at an all-baristas meeting at Fair Grinds , I listened to …
Category: Canada
Voter Suppression in Canada
New Orleans When my friends in Canada compare their politics to the great southland of the United States, I know there’s no compliment coming at the back end of the sentence. When friends started sending me emails from the great north that said, “robo-calls, voter suppression, sounds like…,” I knew that “USA” filled in that …
Turning Up the Heat on FDI and Remittances
New Orleans This report almost writes itself, especially since the pictures virtually tell the story as various organizations in the ACORN International global federation step up to turn on the heat. Ottawa ACORN opens another year of our Remittance Justice Campaign picketing Western Union for predatory pricing of transfers from working, immigrant families back to …