Just When You Think It Can’t Get Worse, It Just Gets More Bizarre

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   We’re living in bizarre times without easy explanations, making it hard not to start drawing straight lines in our mind about things that might normally have seemed simply examples of random events, but the examples abound. The legislature is meeting currently in Arkansas for instance. News reports indicated that there was a difficulty …

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Getting Congress to Move: Get on the Blower and Hold that Line!

DC Politics Ideas and Issues National Politics Organizing

Little Rock   Ever wondered what your representatives in Congress really listen to other than lobbyists, local business people, and of course their donors? Well, Kathryn Schulz in an informative piece in The New Yorker waded into the Washington swamp and came back with some interesting answers to that question. A lot of people might think …

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Where are the Citizen and Patient Protests to Protect Affordable Care?

Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   In the activist moment with cries for resistance, I wonder why the healthcare issue is being left behind by many, as well as the current Obamacare beneficiaries, and why we are not all massing in protest at the threats and head fake proposals to replace care? Don’t misunderstand me, I’m aware of the …

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