Toxic Assets: The Diagnosis Comes Too Late for Foreclosed Homeowners
From AFP today: The 700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout plan, put together last week by the U.S. administration, would allow the U.S .Treasury to sell new debt to buy vast […]
When Worldviews Collide
John McCain reinvented himself — again — this morning. And the latest avatar is the reincarnation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Speaking in Green Bay, Wisc. about the global economic collapse […]
Why Has Palin Cooled Toward ARDOR?
Let’s take a closer look at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s record on community organizing. It seems, as I said in my previous Rooflines post, that she was for […]
North to Alaska—Where Organizers Roam
Very enlightening : I came across an article today on the Minnesota Independent, an online news source, titled Palin’s Maligning Aside, Alaska’s Rife with Community Organizers. Among other tidbits, we […]
Who You Gonna Call?
Hurricane Gustav blew into the Gulf Coast on Labor Day weekend, almost three years to the day that Katrina brought its misery to New Orleans, carrying powerful memories of how […]
Service Forum: McCain’s Moment of Truthiness
Just finished watching ServiceNation’s presidential forum on national service, and I’m here to give credit where it’s due: Judy Woodruff asked John McCain to explain his running-mate’s disparaging taunts about […]
Making Lemonade
Here’s a great example of the law of unintended consequences: The McCain campaign’s sour, distortive targeting of community organizing in an attempt to marginalize Barack Obama as “un-American” — or […]
McCain’s Service Problems
I hope the moderators press McCain on his campaign’s assault on community organizing and how it jibes with the convention’s theme of “service.”
What Palin Could Have Said…
The pushback from around the country is bracing. No sooner did NHI president John Atlas post on Rooflines, setting the record straight on community organizing, we started to hear from […]
Alinsky’s Organizing Writ Large
I came across a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe written by L. David Alinsky, son of community-organizing pioneer Saul Alinsky. It’s worth reading what the son has […]
Reintroducing America to Itself
Tonight, the first evening of the Democratic convention, America was reintroduced to its grass roots. Some memorable moments: Jimmy Carter addressed the hall via video from New Orleans. As he […]
One Less Truth-Teller
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democrat of Ohio, died yesterday after suffering a burst brain aneurysm. Tubbs Jones, 58, was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress. She was […]