New Orleans Just back in town, we caught a lucky break with a showing of Beasts of the Southern Wild in a corporate cineplex in suburban New Orleans which featured a question/answer period with director and co-writer Benh Zeitlin and one of the principal actors and a local baker, Dwight Henry. This young filmmaker was impressive, …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Fighting for the Last Housing Project, Marshall Islands Arkansas, Chinese Enviros
New Orleans I went to sleep with firecrackers booming over the Mississippi River and woke up to chickens crowing in the yard next door, but it helps get me out of bed and on the road to Memphis and to working with citizens’ groups and others in the Bluff City, trying to make the redevelopment …
Modern American Debtors’ Prisons
New Orleans Lord please help the poor, because in America these days it has become a crime to be poor! Local jails are becoming debtors prisons thanks to the fact that local courts, where justice is rumored rather than meted out it seems, in many areas have outsourced fines and fees leaving people with a …