New Orleans The July-August issue of The Atlantic featured an article by Hanna Rosin entitled: “Why Crime is Coming Back — and Why No One Wants to Talk about it.” The article itself is less inflammatory than the headline, but the underlying thesis of the piece probes the question of whether or not tearing …
Category: Personal Writings
Paradise Lost. Logging and the Environmental and Social Destruction of the Solomon Islands
New Orleans This is a preview of coming attractions. In a partnership with ACORN International we have joined with Andre Vltchek in an important project to resuscitate a critical website, Asiana News (www.asiananews.org), which will be debuting within days. The site was formerly called Asiana Press Agency and featured excellent articles from journalists and …
ACORN at 38, Wiley at 35
New Orleans I got a note from a long time ACORN organizer this morning reminding me of a conversation more than 30 years ago in which we were commenting on the uniqueness of ACORN having made it to 4 or 5 or 6 years old or whatever it might have been at that time. …