New Orleans   News is now in from Delhi on the first meeting of another union of informal workers in India being organized by ACORN International. Dharmendra Kumar filed this brief report with more details to follow: On 22nd february 2009 a meeting of Rickshaw pullers were held in Laxmi Nagar, Delhi (photo attached). All …

New Orleans        President Obama announced that in order to pay the piper for health care and for expanding the tax credits to lower income, working families, he was going to advocate a very simple solution:  tax the rich!   Well, not exactly TAX THE RICH, but more just equalize some of the taxes on the …

New Orleans        All weekend the national papers, radio, and television tried to get a handle on what the notion of nationalization might mean when thinking about the banking and auto industries.  Word flowing out of the negotiations with Citi indicates that the US might have as much as a 40% stake in the company …