New Orleans After weeks on the road the free newspaper rack at the Lufthansa counter in Frankfurt seemed the perfect pick-me-up, so I grabbed the international versions of the Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today as part of an English immersion experience. Ironically, a piece in USA Today by Rick Hampson, …
Category: Protests
Occupy Movement and Boycott Bank of America
Palermo Big props to my brothers and sisters back in the hometown where Occupy New Orleans put 1000 on the street according to estimates from professional organizers I know and love! Yes, that was more than double the numbers in DC and many other cities, but, hey, we’re now that kind of town. We know …
Occupy!
Palermo Continued questions from Cairo to Palermo and a constant stream of email messages received on the road, convince me that the Occupy movement is building momentum. It is certainly getting attention, increasingly from serious organizers, labor unions, and others. The news coverage on BBC, Russia Today, and the CCTV Chinese English language station is …