New Orleans The polls have to be giving the middle-of-the-roaders and the settle-for-the-best-we-can folks some pause when the lines are hardening against the scandalous income inequality in America wrought by one tax break after another for the rich and the increasing support for the Occupy protests and other expressions of frustration and rage spoken by …
Category: Protests
Winter Warriors: Tents and Sleeping Bags for Occupy
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 …
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 …