New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …
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Citizen Participation in Paterno and Banks Settle for Billions On Small Foreclosure Aid
Paterno Every place is different whether town or country, but there’s something about waiting for a meeting to start in many countries that always feels the same. My presentation in Paterno before the members of La Citta civic movement and many others who had been invited was scheduled for 7 pm. I had been warned …
Business Assistance Living Wage Campaigns
New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” …