New Orleans The first May Day in the United States saw 300,000 people hit the streets in solidarity with the issues of workers. Fast forward to 2014 and there was not a single note in any of the local papers I read daily or the national ones about any notion of May Day even existing …
Category: Financial Justice
FCC Needs to Stop Bluffing and Make Internet a Public Utility
New Orleans I get the sinking feeling that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the former industry lobbyist and trade association leader, is all bluff and no brass. First, he leaks his new rules that clearly will end “net neutrality” by creating a two-tiered cost structure on speeds for internet access on the so-called “last mile” …
Bad Math and Foreclosures are Twin Towers of Banking
New Orleans I know you are sick about hearing about foreclosures. I sure am! This has all gone on so long and so painfully, and now even the so-called settlements and cleanup of the mess is extending the tragedy. What do we have now? Bank of America makes an accounting error and the miscalculation …