New Orleans The queue to “count coup” on Bank of America and its decision to step back from stealing debit card fees from its customers is almost unseemly. We expect it from politicians, and props to Senator Durbin, VP Joe Biden, and the rest of the DC gang for the pile-on, which in fact [...]
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New Orleans For the last several days way too many of us have left messages on union voice mail machines (gee, no one has anyone answering phones with live people anymore!) all over the United States trying to find union-made sleeping bags and union-made tents for Occupy forces in the Midwest and other colder [...] Orleans Given all of the niggling around the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its impact, it is worth raising some footnotes a little higher on the tally sheet where the results are important, but perhaps unnoticed. Take these recent developments into account. New Orleans The polls have to be giving the middle-of-the-roaders and the settle-for-the-best-we-can folks some pause when the lines are hardening against the scandalous income inequality in America wrought by one tax break after another for the rich and the increasing support for the Occupy protests and other expressions of frustration and rage spoken [...] New Orleans Every once in a while there’s something close to serendipity in this work. Yesterday, I was pulling my hair out trying to think through the Occupy problem with winter coming on. I had opened my blog yesterday, saying: “the easiest opinion I can offer right now as an organizer is that the Occupy [...] Occupy Shreveport Knoxville Occupy Shreveport had 50 people out over the weekend. An event around jobs with Occupy Baton Rouge drew more than 100 on Saturday. Reports from all of ACORN Canada’s offices noted events in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa. A call from a college in Brooklyn ended with his needing to sign off [...] |
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