New Orleans In the prevailing wisdom and the back pats that we like to sometimes hope are well earned and deserved, in speaking with students on university campuses about organizing chapters to support ACORN International’s organizing in various countries I have occasionally used cited the effectiveness of the anti-sweatshop movement as exhibit one for [...]
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Washington Being around the DC area gave me an opportunity to ply friends and associates for information on what might be happening to some other critical efforts for reform now that health care is at center stage. The votes still don’t seem there for labor law reform and there’s no push to have it [...] Philadelphia It was a lot of fun to be the guest speaker at the annual Labor Lawyers reception to support Philadelphia Jobs with Justice. It was a good, there were people, old friends and comrades came out of nowhere, and once we got to the problems of “majority unionism” as discussed in Citizen Wealth, [...] New Orleans Being on the road and out of the country for a month is a bit of a Rip Van Winkle moment despite the best intentions and mainlining internet to keep connected. Some notes. Still seems to absolutely be no progress on real plans for loan modifications to prevent foreclosures. Reading old papers it seems [...] New Orleans There’s a 10 ½ hour time difference from Mumbai to New Orleans, and to ACORN India Mumbai’s director, Vinod Shetty, it was a surprise when earlier today, a delegation including the consul general himself and political director for Mumbai showed up as part of a delegation that wanted to see what ACORN India’s [...] New Orleans There were thousands of actions around the globe on Saturday responding to a call issued by American author Bill McKibben to do something to symbolize the need to move to 350 parts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere compared to the 387 parts CO2, where we are now. These things flare up from [...] Vancouver A phone call from Springfield, Massachusetts early in the morning and then a morning spent with more than 100 local leaders in the southeast region of British Columbia, who were activists and stewards in the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU), reminded me how transcending, essential, and transforming the development of great local leaders [...] Kamloops After 12 hours in New Orleans my daughter dropped me at the airport for the milk run to Kamloops through Chicago and then Calgary. I’m caught in a culture warp between Thailand, India, and now North America. On the TV is the OLN (Outdoor Life Network) which is running a show filmed in beautiful [...] |
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