Los Angeles For days we have been engaged in trying to examine how we can slow down and stop the massive theft of a public utility at the expense of the ratepayers — our members and other already overburdened and beleaguered consumers — in Texas who get their electricity from TXU. The twin demons of …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Rampaging Rich!
Los Angeles We knew it was out of control, but the centering of culture and comment around greed allows such roaring voices to seem privileged even when there are no connections to other headgear — like the brain. David Geffen’s remark to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says it all for the early days …
Anti-War Movement?
New Orleans I took a redeye from Buenos Aires to New York City last Friday night in order to fulfill a commitment to an old friend to be part of a conversation between some organizers and some mega-dome scholars and thinkers about social movements and the power of disruption and contention in creating social change. …