New Orleans More numbers have started to roll in on the delegations coming from the states to the Women’s March on Washington the Saturday after the Inauguration. Two thousand have signed up from Texas, three hundred from Arkansas, and twelve hundred from Louisiana. A story in my local paper had a picture of women making …
Category: Organizing
The Women are Coming to Washington
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sheryl-Crow-w-Burt-Bacharach-01-Dancing-With-Your-Shadow-2422941.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The number of bus permits issued for the Women’s March in Washington on the Saturday after the Inauguration has passed 1800 and reportedly all the seats on Amtrak between DC and New York City are booked. Police and other city officials, rather than the march …
Leslie Dunbar, John Lewis, and Heeding the Call of the Civil Rights Movement
New Orleans Thus far President-elect Trump and his office have said nothing formally in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. His Twitter-attack on civil rights warrior and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis capsulizes his own special oblivion to the struggles and aspirations of tens of millions who don’t live in Manhattan and winter in Florida. I …