Douala, Cameroon Being in central, west Africa for the latest edition of the Organizers’ Forum and, even more excitingly, the first-ever meeting of all ACORN-affiliated organizers in Africa, my eyes immediately caught a piece in the on-line Times touting that “Inspired by the US, West Africans Wield Smartphone to Fight Police Abuse.” For several reasons …
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Guns and Kids: Justice for Jerome
New Orleans Social Policy Press is releasing an e-book, Guns and Kids: Can We Survive the Carnage? by Frank Strier, a legal scholar and emeritus professor from California State University. Not surprisingly, the facts and figures are chilling. We may be horrified by the outrages in San Bernardino and Connecticut with military style assault weapons, …
The Law of the Streets
Bengaluru In Chennai and Bengaluru, the issue we continued to hear in every market where we visited with our members was the police. Every day was a continual battle for space and the streets. We may have gotten a law passed in Delhi, but without power, literally in the streets, it wouldn’t matter to our …