Housing Blame Game

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Housing Blame Game             Antigua           Reading one story after another as reporters and others try to play the “blame game” for the current economic crises pointing first one way and then another, is getting boring.  They are blasting with a shotgun and hoping to finally hit something and someone, since they really are clueless where …

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Christmas Presents

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Christmas Presents                 Antigua                Keeping with the festive season here are two presents coming to people in different places of the country.  One is a break for victims of insurance penny pinching and humiliation in post-Katrina New Orleans.  The other proves the value of good, affordable housing as the first units of housing come …

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Christmas in Antigua

Community Organizing International

Christmas in Antigua             Antigua           They take Christmas very seriously in Guatemala.  Virtually every night we have stumbled into a processional of various shapes and sizes with music, marchers, and a float or nativity scene borne in some fashion traveling Bethlehem.              The marketplaces have been full as the day comes closer.  At noon we …

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