New Orleans To no one’s surprise the Republican’s in a full-on partisan voter registration effort run by the notorious Nathan Sproul have been caught pretty much red-handed changing the party designation on voter registration forms for potential voters in Florida and several other states. Sproul claims to have “registered 500,000 voters in 40 states” through …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Water Wars and Bloqueos “Every Day”
Cochabamba I had met Oscar Olivera in 2003 at the World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, but in the way of these things, it was a passing acquaintance at a meeting of unions who were fighting water privatization I attended along with Luis Isarra Delgado, our partner with the water workers of FENTAP in Peru, …
The Strongest Community Organization, Bartolina Sisas, and the Union of Lowlands Indigenous People
La Paz We were off to El Alto again for a meeting in the morning with the general secretary of FEJUVE, which is essentially is the largest civic association of united neighbors of El Alto. Arguably FEJUVE was not only the strongest community organization anywhere in the province of La Paz, but also the country. …