Daily Archives: 10/25/2011

(Community Matters) Last night I hosted a dinner for three exceptional women from Haiti, who work for Fonkoze. This morning EF hosted a breakfast at LIVESTRONG for these friends and donors. Carine, Linda and Natalie explained how they help women who’ve lost every sense of worth, every shred of hope . . . . help them rebuild their lives, improve their homes, propel their children toward better lives.

240,000+ women who now save money, 55,000+ women who operate small businesses. Fonkoze knows they must address these women’s children’s health, their schooling, their housing, in order for the families to climb a very steep economic ladder. Even leadership development – one of their participants has risen to government minister, others have become leaders in their community, sought out by other agencies to help in the cholera epidemic, to combat violence against women, to organize during the many times of crisis.

The EF/AV HelpHaiti Fund helped thousands of Haitians immediately after the earthquake. It’s helped many of us who lived thousands of miles away.

(Community Matters) I’d joke that it couldn’t get any worse if I didn’t fear just that.

“Gov. Rick Perry’s plan, which includes a flat tax, would eliminate estate and capital gains taxes, and lower the rate wealthiest Americans pay on their income.”

“Perry said of the increased economic inequality that would result from the tax plan in an interview with The New York Times. “If that’s what comes, I’ll take that criticism.”

This after cutting Texas education funding for the first time in 60 years

(Community Matters)

Happy 50th Birthday!

(Community Matters) Seriously? Mitt Romney has appointed Robert Bork to co-chair his judicial advisory committee? This is the guy who fired Nixon’s special prosecutor for attempting to obtain his secret recordings? The guy who’s passionately argued against civil right legislation, against the integration of lunch counters? The guy who has led in arguing for relaxed regulation against corporations? The guy who doesn’t believe the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause should extend to women? The guy who originated today’s constitutional originalism – to an extreme – arguing that Americans don’t hold any rights not articulated by the constitution, including no inherent right to privacy.

It is not a stretch to worry that a Mitt Romney Supreme Court could further expand the rights of corporations while restricting the rights of Americans – including overturning women’s, minorities’ and LGBT equality and protections.

“Corporations are people too” – Mitt Romney, 2011