New Orleans The National Football League continues to hope that they can outlast the players and their use of their “platform” to communicate their deep feelings about the state of racial injustice and police brutality in the country, but it’s not going away. In fact it seems fueled by the owners failure to understand the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
A Story of Organizing and New Orleans Too Good Not to Share
New Orleans The lead story in one New Orleans paper, The Advocate, was about the harassment that is tragically commonplace in the New Orleans restaurant and service industry. Another New Orleans paper, The Times-Picayune, in a several part feature had exposed the culture of harassment at the Besh Restaurant Group, employing more than a 1000 …
Puerto Rico: “Like Living in a War Zone”
Greenville Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico more than one-month ago. Few have missed the reports of devastation on the island and the continuing deprivation of its people. The majority of the island still lacks access to clean water and electricity. We have a many connections to the pain and problems of the island. Willie Cosme …