New Orleans There can’t be a question that the President was going to fire Sally Yates as the Acting Attorney General of the United States as soon as she ordered the Justice Department to not defend Trump’s refugee and Muslim ban as not only likely illegal, but also simply not right. One could be cynical …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Digital “Tools” for Organizing Protests and Building the Movements that Follow
New Orleans Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote an interesting op-ed in the Times, headlined, “Does a Protest’s Size Matter?” The answer is easy: of course it does! But, that’s not the point she wants to underline. The professor wants to underscore the fact that a protest about something is …
O’Keefers Scammed While Trying to Provoke Violence at Women’s March
New Orleans Making a list of things I got wrong last year, one has to be my call that we had finally heard the last of James O’Keefe, the video scammer and promoter of “alternative facts” about people and organizations for Brietbart and the alt-right. No matter how many of his agit-props fizzle out like …