New Orleans Yes, I use Facebook, and as a tool for work and communication, I have found Facebook to have value. Ease of use and access, make it a useful means for people to slip a note over the electronic transom, find you, and move forward. Facebook doesn’t make revolutions, change the world, or anything [...]
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Houston Light Rail Houston For a change it wasn’t work. We were in Houston during the weekend to celebrate the wedding of Emma Graves Fitzsimmons and Gerry Smith. First time ever any of us had attended a wedding reported in the New York Times. It goes without saying that Emma’s job on the national desk of [...] Helene O'Brien SEIU Local 21 LA New Orleans May Day may have begun as a celebration of the coming of spring many years ago, but since the Haymarket Riots in Chicago in 1888 around workers rights, fair wages, and the 8-hour day and the commemoration of May 1st adopted by many in 1890, unions and [...] New Orleans In organizing, even in the smallest space of a neighborhood, we have always argued that you have to “create a happening” where the coming new organization seems to be everywhere on the tip of tongues, laundromat posters, telephone poles, mailings, and whatever tools could be assembled. The same is true of a political [...] New Orleans Every time we think we might be surprised at the avarice of major financial institutions, we are reminded that in the real world, there are no limits either to greed or the willingness for banks to rip off anyone available including preying on desperate, poor families. More sickening evidence was available in a [...] New Orleans Corporate governance and stockholder voting and input are largely boardroom jokes and swallows of hypocritical placebos used to dupe the “biscuit cookers,” what’s left of small investors, and the general public, all of which makes it nice to see some real life examples of sleeping giants stirring to action and delivering some stockholder [...] |
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