Finally Left Leverage on Healthcare

Niagara Falls, Ontario           Maybe progressives and liberals are finally willing to exercise some leverage rather than watching painfully as conservatives and moderates strip every bill that arises down to the bone with health care reform being the latest front page casualty?  There are signs of a stirring.

            SEIU and Andy Stern after having seemed for [...]

Hunkering Down for Reform

Washington Being around the DC area gave me an opportunity to ply friends and associates for information on what might be happening to some other critical efforts for reform now that health care is at center stage.  The votes still don’t seem there for labor law reform and there’s no push to have it [...]

Town Halls Not “Alinsky-style”

Dauphine Island All community organizers chafe at the flood of aspersions on our craft these days.  I see all of these town halls as fair game for protest, but the conservatives have lost tactical control so are coming off thug-like and then blaming folks like ourselves who have spent lifetimes getting it right for their [...]

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