New Orleans When we’re shopping for dog and cat food, most of us think we are ahead of the game if we make sure we’re not buying something that fills up the bowl, but is really mostly pelleted grain of one sort or another. We read the labels and make sure there’s real protein in …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Setting the “Real” Living Wage in the United Kingdom
London The conservatives in the United States may have managed some permanent confusion among workers by labeling their decades long campaign against unions and dues collection, the “right-to-work” laws, but on our side of the line the several decades we have fought “living wage” campaigns was an equally powerful organizing bulwark against ongoing efforts to …
The Dilution of Class Privilege on Mardi Gras
New Orleans Mardi Gras season is rough for year round residents. It’s not the going to parades but navigating the parade routes so that regular work and life maintains its semi-normal routine. It’s also stomaching the symbols. Mardi Gras marks the beginning of Lent on the Christian calendar with Easter forty days away. Historically, Mardi …