New Orleans Utility companies are rarely popular companies. Entergy might be one of the least popular of the breed. A huge part of its national business is managing nuclear power plants, rarely on the top ten favorite list for a lot of people. Regionally, Entergy has some of those plants in Taft, Louisiana, Russellville, Arkansas, …
Category: Organizing
A Grassroots Report on the Current Protests in Nicaragua
New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers Forum visited Managua and several other cities in Nicaragua to assess the status of the country and its civil society in the years since the revolution. Now the government is undergoing fierce street protests led by students. We received this report forwarded from friends to friends offering a …
Crossing Paths with Clean Water Action
New Orleans It isn’t exactly the answer to a popular trivia question, but there might be some head scratching by outsiders, someone from Mars, or an earnest future researcher trying to puzzle out an answer to the question of how a multi-year and multi-layered partnership developed between ACORN and Clean Water Action. As always, there’s …