New Orleans These are the dog days. Walking the dog or loading the car means a full-on sweat. A cold shower is delayed until minutes before the dash to work. Unsurprisingly, fingers find themselves checking temperature listings in Wyoming and Ontario. Just saying. Meanwhile the tasks of the day can’t be avoided or delayed any …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Defending Planned Parenthood Against Conspiracy
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Allentown1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A hastily drawn bill by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky to defund Planned Parenthood of a half-billion in government contracts was defeated by a vote of 53-46. Republicans in the House of Representatives say that they might be willing to shut down …
Thinking about Cascadia on the 10th Anniversary of Katrina
New Orleans As the final countdown begins on the 10th anniversary of the August 29, 2005 landfall of Hurricane Katrina, the devastation it wrought, and the recovery still in progress, A Community Voice, formerly Louisiana ACORN, and an affiliate of ACORN International, held a “Katrina Heroes” event that was quite moving. Members, leaders, friends, …