New Orleans Almost a decade ago, the first reaction after Hurricane Katrina veered slightly to the east of New Orleans was that the city had been spared. We had ducked the bullet somehow. Wind and rain were everywhere, trees were falling, the storm was powerful and vicious, but we would be ok. By the next …
Category: Financial Justice
Philadelphia is ‘Very Angry’ with Comcast
New Orleans Just to be clear. It’s not just me, ACORN International, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Arkansas Community Organizations who are ripping mad at Comcast for high rates, bad service, and making a cruel joke out of the “internet essentials” program rather than using it to help lower income families crawl …
Philanthropies as Government Shadows
New Orleans Whoa! You just know it’s getting hard out there when you find yourself nodding your head in some agreement with a senior fellow of the hardcore conservative Manhattan Institute, which over the years has been in the first ranks of community organizing attackers and ACORN-baiters. There it was though, a Wall Street Journal …