New Orleans The HBO show Treme is gearing up for another go in their efforts to Disneyland New Orleans as a constant musical carnival and cultural minstrel show. In the past I’ve had mixed feelings about David Simon’s show and the fact that though he means terribly well, but is missing the heartbeat and essence …
Category: Organizing
National Crisis with Local Pain: Rebuilding Water and Sewer Infrastructure
Los Osos and Morro Bay There may not be too many issues more complex, expensive, or unpleasant to discuss than the emerging national crisis involving the mixing of our drinking water and our sewage wastewater, the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to protect against pollution, and the enormous expense that such infrastructure rebuilding would attempt to …
Art and Activism
Oakland Every once in awhile if you are searching for new paths, you are going to have to change directions in order to find the way. At least that’s what I thought in agreeing to go to a day-and-a-half conference in Oakland on art and activism, organizing and culture. An invitation from old friends and …