New Orleans Cooperatives should be the shining example that we hold up to corporate abuse and investors greed. Idealists raise the prospects of cooperatives as the solutions for commerce, housing shortages and affordability issues, worker ownership, and all manner of other social problems everywhere I travel. The experiments are small but exciting, and then there …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Notes for My Father on Bulgaria
Sofia I was looking for something, and the big box store we passed as we left the National History Museum was unhelpful. Next door, we saw a store named JUMBO. What the heck? We walked in and were assaulted by pastels of pink, yellow, and blue. Rows and rows. Aisle after aisle. Asking for …
Roma Rising from Status as a Despised Minority
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Natalie-Jean-01-What-Would-You-Do-for-Love-200016389.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSofia Bulgaria and other Eastern European and Balkan nations with significant populations of the Roma minority can easily be compared to African-Americans and their situation in the American South of fifty years ago. They are a despised minority that has begun to see some improvement after …