New Market I couldn’t remember my last visit to the Highlander Center, but it had to have been in the last century. Little had really changed. The same bunk beds, rocking chairs, and great views of the Cumberland Mountains were still there. Finally thanks to towers popping up like weeds on the [...]
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October 19th, 2011 | Tags: BRIDGES, Highlander Center, memphis, Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, Social Policy | Category: Organizing | Leave a comment
New Orleans This is embarrassing, but not surprising. A last ditch lawsuit filed by a bunch of bottom fishing, low wage employers in the Louisiana seafood, forestry, sugar, and hotel and amusement park industries, won a 60-day delay from the US Department of Labor preventing fair and living wages from being paid to the [...] September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Deptartment of Labor, Jacob Horwitz, Living Wage, remittance charges, Social Policy, temporary workers | Category: Labor Organizing | Leave a comment
New Orleans Yes, I know many of you believe that slavery ended almost 150 years ago in an American-centric view of the world, but it’s a big world, and shockingly simple to exploit people by having them work for free, which is what slavery is all about. The US State Department estimates there are [...] September 22nd, 2011 | Tags: delhi, Organizers Forum, slavery, Slavery Footprint, Social Policy | Category: International | Leave a comment
New Orleans Props to Dave Weigel of Slate.com for bringing to the public a better understanding of how the Republican U. S. Congress is so consumed by hater-ation that they can’t see the desperate needs of victims of disaster because they are still blinded in the fog of their ghostbusting of the tragically defunct [...] August 31st, 2011 | Tags: ACORN, ACORN Canada, ACORN International, Applied Research Center, Battle for the Ninth Ward, Congress, Dave Weigel, FEMA, Slate.com, Social Policy | Category: ACORN, ACORN International, National Politics | One comment
New Orleans Ralph Nadar may not know anything about politics, but he still knows a thing or two about effective tactics for consumers, specifically threatening and moving to small claims court to resolve obstinate problems. Recently I wrote desperately about problems Local 100 was having in getting a refund on a plane ticket for an [...] August 13th, 2011 | Tags: Amazon.com, Continental, customer service, global grassroots, Social Policy | Category: Personal Writings | Leave a comment
New Orleans I was sitting in a staff meeting two weeks ago and casually mentioned that my friend Carlos Guerra had said to me on [...] February 6th, 2011 | Tags: brown power, Carlos Guerra, Chicano movement, Crystal City, Doug Young, immigration reform, Jose Angel Guitierrez, La Raza Unida, New York, Ramsey Muniz, San Antonio Express-News, Social Policy, the Texas Institute for Educational Development, TIED, Working Families Party | Category: Ideas and Issues, immigration reform | Leave a comment
Orange Beach It’s not a happy experience reading Miriam Pawel’s book on the United Farm Workers Union, The Union of their Dreams, but for those of us in the work, it’s worth the climb no matter how unsettling the view. I reached out for her through Google triangulation in order to seek permission to [...] December 21st, 2010 | Tags: Cesar Chavez, Chavez's legacy, Chris Hartmire, Eliseo Medina, Gary Delgado, Marshall Ganz, Miriam Pawell, Poor People's Union, Richard nixon, Rosemary Woods, Social Policy, The Unioin of their Dreams, UFW, UFW history, UFW tapes, United Farm Workers Union | Category: Community Organizing, Ideas and Issues | Leave a comment
chaddis pink underwear campaign Delhi The fabrication of the Commonwealth Games continued. The headlines trumpeted six more gold medals and the 2nd place standing of India, while the stories continued to be nothing but mishap and misfortune due to poor organizing and faulty equipment, and literally no crowds at all. An [...] October 8th, 2010 | Tags: commonwealth games, dharvi, Dick Harmon, Gulabi Gang, iaf, mediating institutions, Mridula Koshy, Pink Chaddi, Pink Sari, sex and politics, Social Policy, Sri Ram Sena, Tata, violence and politics, Waste documentary, White Tiger | Category: Ideas and Issues, International | Leave a comment
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