New Orleans We commemorate lots of things in the United States like the Civil War and the Declaration of Independence, so it is a good thing to see real respect given and attention paid to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech in 1963. There’s a nice feeling …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
New Orleans At the Fair Grinds Dialogue , Stephanie Hepburn, co-author of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight, led us through the hall of horrors of forced labor and the little that is done about it around the world. She and Rita Simon had amassed stories and studies from twenty-four countries to …
The Deepening Injustice and Illegality of Congressional Anti-ACORN Bans
New Orleans The original Congressional budget ban on “ACORN, its affiliates, and allied organizations” continues to be renewed annually in different ways by the eager beaver hater brigade in Congress, and was done so again recently, reportedly for the thirteenth time since 2009. I decided to take a list at the 2009 original ban list …