Dallas Recently fingers once again pointed at the “rating” agencies on Wall Street as one of the meltdown makers who have successfully escaped any real reform in the last year from Congress or the financial world shakers. Wall Street would obviously still believe this is all about them and want to make sure that wheelers [...]
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New Orleans After 13 long years in court and even more years in negotiations trying to get the United States Interior Department to do right and make restitution for their shameful mismanagement of Indian Trust lands and the royalties that should have been paid, Elouise Cobell finally settled the case for $3.4 billion dollars [...] New Orleans A week ago I was in Boston. Knowing I would be in Cambridge at the Harvard Coop, I sent an email to my friend and colleague, Tim Costello, suggesting he come over if he had a minute and visit and pick up a book. The weather was miserably cold and wet, so I [...] New Orleans Driving back from a union bargaining session at the NASA Michoud facility I just missed a call from a 207 area code. Returning the call, it was a pleasant surprise to find the caller was none other than Nicholas von Hoffman, who is somewhat known to people now for his journalistic and [...]
New Orleans It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement. Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item on [...] Newark Slushy snow was coming down as we hit the Unitarian Church in Montclair and my host, John Atlas wasn’t sure there would be anyone but us there to talk about Citizen Wealth, ACORN, and the state of the country today this afternoon. The event, jointly sponsored by Shelterforce magazine and Blue Wave New [...] New York City Running around New York trying to catch up with the city, a couple of things bare comment. Talking to Steve Early, the “embedded” labor activist about his new book, he asked me about the expansion of home health care organizing and whether there was an upside. It was an excellent question, and I answered [...] New York City Speaking at the Williams Club was not on the top list of things I simply had to do before breathing dirt, but I counted on it being an interesting educational experience, so I wasn’t disappointed. It seems all of the college-based clubs that are based in NYC for the Ivy League and [...] |
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