New Orleans A classic organizing problem has always been how do popular forces leverage local strength around global concerns? This question has always been difficult as anti-war forces saw most recently in trying to raise issues around Iraq and as 60’s veterans vividly remember from the protests to stop the Viet Nam war a world …
Category: Protests
May Day Flu
New Orleans In recent weeks organizers and advocates have been calling for a mass showing of support for immigration reform in cities around the country by hitting the streets for solidarity on May Day. The hope was to put some wind in the sails of immigration reform as the movement prepares to hear Obama deliver …
Tambourine and Fan
New Orleans Bleary eyed from an 18-hour trip to Chicago, I opened the Times-Picayune early and glancing at the Metro section saw that a conservative, Republican-leaning, New Orleans City Councilwoman was trying to cut off funding to someone because of what she was saying was a “racist threat.” Something like that attracts the …