December 7, 2020 New Orleans Over a decade ago, ACORN stumbled into an offer that seemed exciting as a progressive experiment. Friends and relatives of friends and comrades had been bitten by the enviro-bug and had built a mobile biodiesel machine with a 20,000-gallon monthly capacity in Santa Barbara, California. A beautiful stainless-steel …
A Radio Lesson from the ACLU in NOLa DA’s Race
December 6, 2020 Pearl River The 2020 election season isn’t quite over, as the Senate runoff in Georgia proves, but that’s not the only place where there are key runoffs. In New Orleans, a highly contentious, and important, race for district attorney was the featured bout, along with a gaggle of judge and school board …
New Bosses Different than the Old Bosses?
December 5, 2020 Pearl River Some of the issues for significantly recalibrating US efforts on climate and energy seem the same, but Northeastern Professor Jennie Stephens brings some different twists to them in Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy, in our recent discussion on Wade’s World. Stephens made the case …