New Orleans I was in Triana, Albania, riding shotgun, talking pleasantly in the car as we drove to a meeting, and I swear I couldn’t help myself from channeling my father, a million others, and, frankly, myself, when I snapped at the driver, “stop lugging the engine!” I was self-aware enough to explain what lugging …
We Need More Jubilee
New Orleans I heard about it in Sunday school or read it myself in the bible, I don’t really remember it. When in South Africa in 2004 a decade after the end of apartheid in South Africa with a delegation from the Organizers’ Forum, I remember well our whole group of fifteen or more …
House Rich, Dirt Poor
New Orleans During farm crises, as prices get lower for crops and property taxes get higher, the old saying in rural areas about being “land rich, and dirt poor” comes to mind, especially in the states that have property taxes. Talking to a relative about his aging father’s house, he mentioned that his son would …