New Orleans As we peel more layers off the onion of the recent election, there’s more good news and more bad, but there are also refresher courses that remind us of lessons we’ve painfully won, but are forced into detention to review yet again. The hardest is often the tough lesson of elections: it is [...]
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New Orleans Obvious disclosure: I’m a huge proponent of the strategic and tactical value of local and statewide initiative on our issues to build organizational power and actually win campaign results. This is obvious given the number of living wage, lifeline utility, sales tax on food & medicine, generic drug, minimum wage increase, and single [...] Arizmendi Oakland Things come in threes? Fate reaches out for you? Of all things in the Bay Area in recent days I started to feel like this was happening to me and cooperatives. I was stumbling over and into them everywhere I went. Visiting with Peter Olney, the organizing director for ILWU, he told me fascinating [...] Former SEIU official Sal Rosselli San Francisco One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival. There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus [...] Student Strike in Montreal March 2012 New Orleans This fall will undoubtedly see a huge number of students mobilized by the November election, but I’m starting to believe that the student army that is going to be activated this fall is going to be marching to a different tune for a change: their own self-interest. [...] |
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