Zydeco

Personal Writings

Breaux Bridge        We stumbled into breakfast at the Cafe des Amis on the Main Street of Breaux Bridge and within minutes found ourselves caught up in an early morning zydeco breakfast.  There was a full zydeco band from Lake Charles that was hot as fire and while we tried to get eggs and sausage …

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Mulate’s

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

Breaux Bridge        It was time for my mother to have a change of scenery, so we headed for Acadiana.  The fact that the air conditioning didn’t work in her car made the trip that much more authentic.  Reminded me of a million years ago when we would drive to see my grandparents in California …

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COSATU Squeezing Mugabe

Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings

New Orleans        Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) took a delegation of community and labor organizers to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, for a series of fascinating meetings with community based organizations and unions.  We were there at the 10th anniversary of liberation and were fascinated by the three-legged stool that formed …

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