New Orleans Every once in a while there’s something close to serendipity in this work. Yesterday, I was pulling my hair out trying to think through the Occupy problem with winter coming on. I had opened my blog yesterday, saying: “the easiest opinion I can offer right now as an organizer is that the Occupy …
Category: Protests
Occupy Everywhere
Knoxville Occupy Shreveport had 50 people out over the weekend. An event around jobs with Occupy Baton Rouge drew more than 100 on Saturday. Reports from all of ACORN Canada’s offices noted events in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa. A call from a college in Brooklyn ended with his needing to sign off to go to …
Egyptian Revolution in Doubt
New Orleans Hardly three weeks away from our exhilarating and hopeful experiences in Cairo and all the new reports are bummers because it is becoming clearer and clearer that the military is staging its own coup to continue to act as an armed and dangerous junta ruling the country both in front and behind the …