New Orleans The old adage that “what goes around, comes around” applies nicely to Wells Fargo, long in our experience one of the pariahs of banking and a shameless purveyor of predatory products and lending, long a target of ACORN campaigns. Recent years have seen their corrupt culture begin to catch up with the San …
Gene Sharp, Nonviolence Evangelist
New Orleans Gene Sharp was not well-known, except where it mattered, and that was among the groups of activists here and abroad who tried to strategize about how to make change when faced with oppressive, often dictatorial, governments against amazing odds. He wrote a shelf full of books about nonviolence. Evangelizing, theorizing, and advising on …
Nick von Hoffman, TWO Legend and Alinsky Lieutenant
Boston It’s just makes a cold day even colder when it starts with reading an obituary in the Boston Globe about Nick von Hoffman dying at Rockport, Maine at 88 years old. For von Hoffman the early part of this career in Chicago when he was a community organizer and the chief lieutenant of Saul …