New Orleans Part of the global dispute that ACORN International highlighted in our recently released report, “Unfair Fairtrade” www.acorninternational.org, burst into the business section of the Times in a weird piece of Thanksgiving celebration. The issue engaged most directly continued to be the rouge retreat of Fair Trade USA and its chief, Paul Rice, from …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Egyptian Protests: The Struggle Between Freedom and Power
New Orleans Every once in a while the issues become crystal clear even in the fog of the continuing protests in Tahrir Square that are once again constant around the clock with hundreds of thousands contending with the recalcitrant military forces. Yesterday in noting that the Muslim Brotherhood had started …
John Sayles and “Amigo” Doing it His Way
New Orleans John Sayles is a filmmaker with some skills and some politics. I had read his book, Union Dues, and his famous short story about the Anarchist Convention years ago and like them. I had watched some of his historical dramas like Matewan, a great movie about a rough coal strike, Lone Star with …