Immigration Reform Strategy Washington If there is any one theme that becomes obvious as I talked to groups and individuals involved in working to achieve immigration reform in this coming session of Congress, it is a version of “remember the Alamo.” No one is willing to lose again. No one is willing to make the same …
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Hopes for Peace
Hopes for Peace Washington I had been trying to visit with Medea Benjamin off and on as I have been coming to Washington in recent months in order to get her advice. She was a co-founder of Global Exchange more than 20 years ago, and someone who certainly knows her way around the world. …
Neighborhood Housing and Fear in Sicily
Neighborhood Housing and Fear in Sicily December 12, 2008 New Orleans Our old friend, Professor Ken Reardon, who had done so much with us in making a plan for rebuilding the 9th Ward in New Orleans with his students and faculty at Cornell, that it was good news that he was visiting again with another …