New Orleans Every report indicates that predatory practices are spreading when lower income families are trying to acquire homes in the current real estate market where banks have cut back on small loans, the subprime lending market has virtually disappeared, and vulture investors are trying to exploit the situation. The terrible result has been an …
Food May Be a Top Concern but Workers are at The Bottom
New Orleans The Food Chain Workers’ Alliance released an updated state of the industry report entitled “No Piece of the Pie,” and it’s not just sobering, it’s depressing, because even as employment is soaring in this critical industry, the workers are falling farther and farther behind. There is no way to separate the precariousness of …
Logistical and Strategic Challenges at Standing Rock
New Orleans The election is over, but there is still a tremendous struggle being waged by the Standing Rock Sioux and a host of allies from tribes all over the country and supporters in a face-off with the pipeline constructors coming ever closer to the embattled and sacred areas. I talked to Mekasi Camp Horinek …