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Constitutional Defenders
New Orleans Having been in Canada all week was a relief, but there was no way to come back to New Orleans and not try to get a better understanding of the political road rage that is seeking to engulf...
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Fifty Years Since the Freedom Rides
NewOrleans Thanks to my new library card, I stumbled onto the library’s homepage last weekend to learn how to order books on-line, and what do you know there was an announcement of a event...
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The Real Danger in Treme is HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods and Heritage Tourism
New Orleans The HBO show Treme is gearing up for another go in their efforts to Disneyland New Orleans as a constant musical carnival and cultural minstrel show. In the past I’ve had mixed feelings...
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Personal Experience Once Again Changing People: Immigration & Gay Rights
Little Rock Polls out today from Brookings and the Public Religion Research Institute indicate that the American people continue to shift significantly to favor a legal path to citizenship for...
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Tide Turning on Voter ID Suppression
picture from http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/01/17/court-overturns-pennsylvania-voter-id-law/ New Orleans As long as Republicans realize that their appeal is to a minority segment of the United...
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King’s Boots and Lewis’ Backpack
Photo with the backpack from www.spidermartin.com New Orleans Too often our tactics lose their edge when they devolve into more show than steel, more parade than march, more about the media than...
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Leslie Dunbar, John Lewis, and Heeding the Call of the Civil Rights Movement
Leslie W. Dunbar speaking to the Loyal Democrats of Mississippi Convention in 1968. Credit Tony Dunbar New Orleans Thus far President-elect Trump and his office have said nothing formally in...
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A Story of Organizing and New Orleans Too Good Not to Share
CORE sit-in at Woolworth’s in New Orleans New Orleans The lead story in one New Orleans paper, The Advocate, was about the harassment that is tragically commonplace in the New Orleans restaurant and...
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Voter Registration Periods are Over, Now’s the Time for GOTV
New Orleans Georgia is scaring the Republicans. Barriers to voter registration dropped over the last two years as the result of lawsuits and legislative action that made registration and renewal...
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Unita Blackwell’s Life and Work is a Beacon for Us All
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01052020.mp3 New Orleans At the end of every year, there’s a section in the New York Times about the “lives they lived” that looks at...
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Protests Disrupt, No Duh!
New Orleans If I had a thousand dollars for every time someone, well-meaning or evil-intentioned, said to me, that “I could agree with ACORN, but I can’t agree with your tactics,” then we would...
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Why are Montgomery Civil Rights Memorials Private? July 19, 2021 New Orleans and Montgomery Driving back from north Georgia to New Orleans, my son and I had left early enough that we decided...
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