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Workshops on subcontracting and nursing homes and community homes Shreveport Local 100’s stewards and leaders organized themselves into three different workshops. One focused on schools and head start units, another looked at health care with nursing and community homes, and the last bit hard into contractors and subcontractors for sanitation and [...] Shreveport Meeting Friday night with immigration reform organizers after their long day of meetings in New Orleans on the 2nd day of the “Turning the Tide” conference it was clear that spirits were good among the organizers, despite the fact that prospects for comprehensive reform seem to have sunk to new lows. These were [...] New Orleans The laugh line in the welcome to 150 organizers coming together in the “Turning the Tide” conference in New Orleans, convened primarily by NDLON (the National Day Labor Organizing Network) for immigration reform organizers who are at the sharp point of the grassroots fight against punitive enforcement, was [...] Phoenix The relentless rise of foreclosures through metro Phoenix continues unabated, as borrowers try to hang on and many assisting beleaguered homeowners tear their hair in frustration in dealing with unaccountable and uncommunicative lenders and an inept government. I spent a chunk of my day reading the handbooks and guidelines for the HAMP program (Home [...] Phoenix Immigration reform advocates have increasingly lodged the criticism that the Obama Administration, the state of Arizona, and many other jurisdictions is criminalizing immigrants. Part of this lies in the simple Arpaio aberration of taking a civil infraction, which is how an immigration violation exists in law, and making it a criminal issue, largely [...] New Orleans I don’t have the energy on a Labor Day for the anger, but there’s no escaping the ironies! The New York Times writes an editorial on “Labor Day, Now and Then,” and while noting that Labor Day dates earlier than other holidays mindlessly say the following: “…nature doesn’t seem quite as rude as it once [...] New Orleans The search for movies with a politically satirical message is unwavering and someone has to do it, so there we were at opening night for the world release for “Machete,” the new Richard Rodriguez blood and gore flick, and we were thumbs up all the way. In fact our friends at NDLON, [...] New Orleans President Obama, Secretary Geithner, and the rest of the hapless pickup crew that flubs around in the housing and foreclosure crises came together to “repurpose” yet more of the TARP money that was set aside for home mortgage modifications that might prevent foreclosures and threw $15 billion of the total at some [...] |
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