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 …
Category: Protests
Mainstream Confusion over Movement and Occupy
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, …
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 …