New Orleans As faithful readers know, August 9th was Quit Retail Day in India marking the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the anti-colonial movement in the country. This time the ACORN-supported India FDI Watch Campaign made the call throughout the coalition. 1500 people rallied in Mumbai. Good actions in Delhi (with photos in …
Category: Protests
Human Levee
New Orleans ACORN leader, Joe Sherman, has been a rock in the rebuilding of the upper Carrollton neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. Flooding from the 17th Street Canal inundated the area along with the Lakeview neighborhood, Hollygrove, and many others on the western side of the city. Many repairs have been made on the …
Updates and Catch-ups
New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …