New Orleans Facebook’s constant unfulfilled promises to fix the problems with their platform and its role in offering voice to violence seems to have finally come to the “sell by” date. Patience has been exhausted. The evidence has mounted steadily and seems to have hit a tipping point. First, their #2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, …
Tag: Myanmar
Whistle Help in Myanmar and Beyond
New Orleans A couple of years ago in Oakland, I ran into Rhoda Linton, who I’ve known since the late 60’s when both of us were welfare rights organizers with the National Welfare Rights Organization, she in Brooklyn and me in Massachusetts. She had been working on a brief documentary on an interesting campaign she …
Lessons for My Father, Part 2, the Darker Side
Yangon Don’t get me wrong. A visit to Yangon is amazing, but it’s no walk the park. · Let’s take walking for example. There has been some work on streets and sidewalks, and in fact I regularly saw a pothole patching team in the central city. The new sidewalks are interesting. First they are about …