Waveland All year I kept reading that this book with the long, drawn out title, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy was a “must read.” From the descriptions, it sounded a bit like an anti-globalization, “there’s something out there that might …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Domestic Surveillance in the USA
Waveland The holidays are slow news days, but not no news days. One item that caught my attention in the list of big stories of the year was the ongoing tale of domestic surveillance in the USA, which I reread again. Much of this was the post-9/11 reality that we forget is as much about us, as …
Caffè sospeso, or Suspended Coffee: A Christmas Message
New Orleans Chaco and I go open Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, our social enterprise that supports ACORN International’s organizing in Latin America on Christmas morning. He will get there at 530AM, and I’ll trail in about 615AM. I’m the helper, and not much of that he often tells me, but we open together every Christmas morning …