New Orleans Whatever happened to Julian Assange of Wiki-leaks and Edward Snowden of NSA mega-leaks? Well, Assange has now done 1000 days in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he received political asylum, and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been given a 3-year visitor visa. Amazingly, though the investigations by the USA and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
A Desktop Museum is an Interesting Notion
Little Rock ACORN created the Fifteen Street Corporation to buy a building at 523 West 15th in the mid-1970’s, which housed all of the various operations of our family of organizations including not only Arkansas ACORN but also KABF/FM, Local 100, and at various times our training institute, housing corporation, and random tenants. The building’s …
Holding Hospitals Accountable in Washington State
Little Rock Like most people, I’m pretty sure the quality of my life is directly improved in proportion to my ability to avoid this strangely named thing called “webinars.” Surely, that’s a weapon that is used in some old Star Wars movie, not an organizing tool? I’m not going to change my mind about webinars, …