New Orleans In the Age of Trump, corporate impunity is reaching new extremes around the country, but it has also infected local and state politics as well. Entergy, the giant utility provider in the mid-south states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, as well as parts of east Texas and of course New Orleans, is rapidly …
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Crowds on Demand
New Orleans Utility companies are rarely popular companies. Entergy might be one of the least popular of the breed. A huge part of its national business is managing nuclear power plants, rarely on the top ten favorite list for a lot of people. Regionally, Entergy has some of those plants in Taft, Louisiana, Russellville, Arkansas, …
Utility Rate Increase Fights Are Back!
New Orleans Once upon a time back in the last century, just as there are now campaigns for things like living wages and ending predatory lending, there were fights to hold giant utility companies accountable all over the country more than forty years ago. Then there was something called inflation, which young people in the …
John Beam, Veteran of ACORN’s Heroic Era
New Orleans More than 15 years ago during the HOTROC organizing campaign for hotel workers in New Orleans, I worked with an organizer named David Keiffer. Dave had been around a number of organizations before partnering with me and flying an AFL-CIO banner at the time with stints going back to the AM/FM canvass program …
Welcome to New Orleans where Entergy Serves Power Failure Regularly and at the Super Bowl
New Orleans There for all of the world to see and experience is New Orleans in all of its glory and damned if the lights don’t go off and show our ass instead of our smiling faces! This is what a cover-up reads like, thanks to the Association Press “explanation,” if that’s what you call …