New Orleans Reading the papers this morning, I could see the future, and it was very scary! The New York Times was speculating in the wake of the Republicans beat down of the Democrats in the midterm elections about where the Republicans might find a path to victory at the presidential level that has seemed …
Category: Ideas and Issues
South African Civic Associations Twenty Years after Apartheid
Brooklyn Mzwanele Mayekiso was an organizer and leader in building one of the more remarkable civic associations, the Alexandra Action Committee, in a large township during the tumultuous years that finally toppled apartheid in South Africa twenty years ago in 1994. He did three years with other activists in prison during that period accused of …
Immigration Wedging Politics in United Kingdom Too
New Orleans In the contentious midterm elections in the USA there were huge issues that were simply not core issues for the candidates. After all of the sound and fury about the Affordable Care Act, blah, blah, blah, the actual candidates seem to have come to grips with the fact that 11 million enrollees just …