New Orleans In the category called “racist comments of the week,” Donald Sterling’s reported comments telling his former mistress not to bring African-Americans to the Los Angeles Clippers ball games or be seen with them, ended up topping the charts. The Clippers team in protest wore their warm-up jerseys backwards, essentially hiding the team’s name, …
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Community Development, Afro-Bolivians, Unions of Campesino Workers, Federations of Highlands Indigenous, and the Union of Young Workers
La Paz Organizers’ Forum international dialogues are always full of surprises. We could tell Bolivia was going to be no different especially when miner’s strikes and mobilizations of various social movements were everywhere in the streets and in the news of La Paz. Many of these were the same groups we had sought to meet with …
A Juror’s Duty to Acquit or Convict on a Lesser Charge to Reform Criminal Justice System
New Orleans Jury service is a citizen’s obligation in the United States. In the smaller City of New Orleans my fellow jurors and I are called to the jury pool every two years for a month of service in the criminal courts. The pool is broken in half each month so each juror draws between …