New Orleans The cover of the New York Times Magazine for Sunday, January 15th could not have been better for the living wage movement. There was a picture of Manuela Soto, an assistant hotel housekeeper employed in the hospitality industry of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The cover shot graphically looked at the difference a $2.00 …
Category: Financial Justice
Stealing in Broad Daylight
New Orleans One could become cynical, but in New Orleans this just all goes under the category of “bought lessons” and hard realities. Eleven weeks out from the hurricane as so little happens and the housing stock continues to sink into the now grey and lifeless ground with the rains soon to follow and worse to …
Making Real Plans for New Orleans
Baton Rouge The highlight tapes for the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans would have Dorothy Stukes giving the survivors platform, Beulah Laboistrie’s closing remarks, walking into Annie Falls’ house in the 9th Ward, one of the members standing up to the architects and volunteering his house for the raising and reconstruction, and a dozen …