New Orleans A classic organizing problem has always been how do popular forces leverage local strength around global concerns? This question has always been difficult as anti-war forces saw most recently in trying to raise issues around Iraq and as 60’s veterans vividly remember from the protests to stop the Viet Nam war a world …
Category: Personal Writings
Foreclosure Follies
New Orleans Bailouts continue at the rate of bulging billions, but foreclosures for homeowners in US and aboard are still all talk, no cattle. Center for Responsible Lending put out a notice that 1.7 million homeowners took a banking or what we used to call a “beating,” when the majority of the Senate voted to …
Valentines and Terminal 5
London My dad when he was alive would press me on my travels for the odd bits and pieces that stuck to the mind as unique or different from my far flung travels to organize, so in the transition and 30 hours of airport and flying time from Nairobi to New Orleans, I found myself thinking …