Phoenix I spent most of the day in meeting with Frances Gomez, her brother, and Teresa Castro, talking about her case and what could be done to resist foreclosures and win real relief for tens of thousands of homeowners facing this catastrophe because of federal and banking inaction here where this problem is ground zero …
Category: Protests
Alto Arizona
New Orleans Alto Arizona is the Spanish. STOP ARIZONA is the English. We need to join together to try and stop Arizona from trying its darnedest to enact the most repressive, terroristic, anti-immigrant legislation in the country. If Governor Brewer signs this legislation, it turns racial profiling from a tendency to an legal obligation in …
Why Not Paul Farmer at US-AID
New Orleans After endless delays and speculation the Administration announced that Dr. Rajiv Shah, currently an Department of Agriculture official and formerly an executive with the Gates Foundation, would become the head of the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) last week. From all reports he sounds like a competent administrator and a first …