New Orleans The notion that there might be a “house theorist” in the tent cities of the Occupy movement was interesting in and of itself, but the fact that such soul would be David Graeber who recently wrote, Debt: The First 5000 Years, was even more interesting to me. This whole debt thing is [...]
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December 9, 2011 New Orleans A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing. Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot entitled: “TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.” I was able to access the PDF by googling the title directly, and you might want to [...] New Orleans There are few organizations anywhere that are better at pure and simple communications than MoveOn.org and the Service Employees International Union, but they just about met their match in trying to turn up the heat with a demonstration culminating SEIU’s Fight for a Fair Economy campaign in DC. To the media this was [...] New Orleans Gabe Feldman, professor at Tulane Law School and head of the Sports Law Department, inaugurated the first Fair Grinds Dialogue (www.fairgrinds.com) with an excellent presentation of the legal issues that underpin the strategy and tactics in the recent NBA lockout as well as other sports labor issues. This may be one of the [...] New Orleans Dharmendra Kumar, campaign director of the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), an organizational affiliate and campaign of ACORN International, has been emailing and telling me for days that the outcry against the Indian government’s recent announcement that it would open foreign direct investment to multi-brand retail was intense and unyielding in Delhi and [...] Little Rock We were visiting in the old Little Rock ACORN office about books, campaigns, and organizing. This conversation led to an invitation by Robert Nunn, son of an Arkansas ACORN leader from the old Oak Forest group and the anti-blockbusting campaign and old friend from 40 years ago, Walter Nunn, to come down and [...] Little Rock It was exciting to be back in Little Rock visiting with a combination of old ACORN leaders and organizers, city and neighborhood activists, Local 100 ULU organizers and leaders, and others. The excuse for the meeting in the old Arkansas ACORN building and board conference room, surrounded by posters and pictures of campaigns [...] Little Rock To great fanfare the Machinists and its District Lodge (local union) 751 announced a new precedent setting deal with Boeing in Washington. There was plenty of sugar in this coffee! Reports on the 4-year package included an 8% bump in wages when inflation is now less than 1%, improved pension formulas, a $5000 [...] |
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