Bank Redlining Increasing and Wealth Plummeting in Minority Communities

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure Ideas and Issues

New Orleans        The Federal Reserve report on the continued decrease in lending to African-American and Hispanic families is unambiguous.  In 2013, 4.8% of total home loans were to African-Americans, 7.3% were to Hispanics.  In 2012, the numbers were only marginally better at 5.1% and 7.2% respectively.  As recently as 2006, before the real estate meltdown …

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UAW Continues to Forge Ahead in Chattanooga with Volkswagen

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

New Orleans             The UAW, confounding the old schoolers and the pundits, continues to plow new, but familiar, ground in seeking to bargain a “members’ only” agreement at the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant employing 1500 workers and expanding rapidly. Gary Casteel, the UAW’s Secretary-Treasurer announced that the newly chartered UAW Local 42 at the plant had reached …

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Father Rob Currie in Arenal, Nicaragua Has Organized in the “Vineyards”

ACORN ACORN International Ideas and Issues International Organizers Forum Organizing

Managua          Mike Gallagher, veteran organizer and longtime friend and comrade, told me after his stay in Nicaragua earlier this year that Bob Currie was worth a visit. On the calendar for the Organizers’ Forum I had marked “small village case study.” I’m not sure if Father Currie had suggested that topic …

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