Takoma Park Financial reform for consumers has been in deep water and drowning ever since Rep. Barney Frank nixed the White House inserted CRA protection from the bill, but in the “something is better than nothing” world we’re forced to live in these days, at the least we have to draw the line at [...]
Playa de Manzilla Certainly ACORN Canada didn’t expect a resounding endorsement from the conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, from its editorial about the ACORN living wage campaigns that are front and center in the major city and national capital of Ottawa and in New Westminster, the important working suburb of Vancouver, and it’s [...]
Boston Talking to organizers the last night about security workers being subcontracted, one casually mentioned what could and could not be done because of the Boston Living Wage ordinance. At Boston University with Professor Lee Staples as we made the case and claims for the power of community organizing it was natural to once again [...]