Make it Right New Orleans Driving through the Lower 9th Ward and the overwhelming scenes of both desolation and hope, we found ourselves gawking at these huge houses towering over the grassy and vacant fields in the areas close to the new concrete wall that replaced the Industrial Canal levee. My son was particularly …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Mumbai Thanksgiving
Mumbai Thanksgiving November 27, 2008 New Orleans In the late afternoon before Thanksgiving Prachee Sinha of the ACORN International staff and I were riveted to the Times of India website for news of the terrorist attacks throughout Mumbai. Prachee was raised in Luchow and came over to work with me from Delhi, first training …
Allen Ginsburg at KNON Radio
Allen Ginsburg at KNON Radio November 27, 2008 New Orleans This is a treat that I stumbled into recently from the Dallas Observer. A blogger working as a volunteer midnight DJ on KNON, the great Dallas non-commercial radio station that many of us helped organize, get on air, and continue to love, tells about …