CDC’s Eviction Ban, Please and Maybe

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09162020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     I didn’t want to be right on this, but from any reading of the Center for Disease Control’s federal eviction ban, it was clear that it was going to be a hot mess when it came to implementation.  At one level, the order was …

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Voting on the Working Family Party Ballot Line

ACORN Voting Rights

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09152020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      New Yorkers are lucky.  Not only do they get to vote with relatively little hassle, but they get to send important messages to politicians about where they stand by voting on unique ballot lines that identify their politics not in broad strokes, but along …

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Protecting, Sharing, and Hiding Behind Private Health Data

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Most of us think our own health is our business, that is until we find out it is big business, and that everyone wants to make it their business.  Health data is now a quiet corporate battlefield and a public issue at the same …

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