On August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Mississippi, and the western side of the storm grazed New Orleans. Five months after the storm, I visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast. According to a National Hurricane Center report on Katrina, “in many locations, most of the buildings along the coast were [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Fatherhood (from The Waiting Room)
This video is from a film by my friend Pete Nicks, who is the guy with the camera in my banner image, above. The film, The Waiting Room, is a timely documentary about our health care system, as seen at The Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, CA. THE WAITING ROOM will follow three people [...]
Real World Labor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2009 Contact: Linda Pinkow, (617) 447-2177, ext 204, linda@dollarsandsense.org New Anthology Explores the State of Labor Real World Labor Edited by Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense Collective In this time of rapid economic change, the power of organized labor seems to be in decline. [...]
In Death Posey Dodges Murder Charges Once and for All
The Clarion Ledger reports: Billy Wayne Posey, a key suspect in the Ku Klux Klan’s killings of three civil rights workers in 1964 in Mississippi, has died, but Justice Department officials say they’re continuing their investigation of the remaining suspects. The 73-year-old Posey died Thursday of natural causes, according to friends. That leaves four living [...]
Rocky Mt. Health Care Town Hall Meeting
Vimeo poster Ajamu Dillahunt writes: Southern African American community resists corporate organized rightwing protestors. Above the shouts the community tells its story and why they need health care for all to overcome historic health disparities. (h/t Jared Storey)
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