New Orleans On June 16th Community Organizations International (formerly ACORN International) embarked on our first “global action” as protesting the excessive and predatory costs of remittances and demanding reform. There was great excitement as the reports – and especially the pictures and news reports – came in first from Delhi and then Mumbai where demands …
Rinku and Colorlines
New Orleans Rinku Sen somehow had perfect timing. She happened to be in New Orleans as a board member for Restaurant Opportunities Center and its national operations, but as an author sharing the same publisher (www.bkconnection.com) and editor of Colorlines, she and I were having lunch on the day we sent Social Policy to press …
Savings Bonds and Citizen Wealth
New Orleans Visiting with friends at the Interfaith Worker Justice confab at Tulane last evening, Jeff Zinsmeyer, a long esteemed colleague came up and said hello. We sat down and visited for a little along with Henry Allen of the Discount Foundation based in Boston. I had stumbled onto a project of Jeff’s, while writing …