New Orleans: Keeping up with the email traffic yesterday one message stood out from the rest. It seems that in San Diego Head Start workers, their leaders and officials from their union, SEIU Local 2028 (www.seiu2028.org ), were on a one-week fast to protest their working conditions and the lack of bargaining progress. I …
Month: April 2004
Life on the Beach
Miami: This is the season for spring break for college students. Thousands — tens of thousands — of college students and other young folks from here and there tromp down to the beaches all over Florida, and Miami if they can get here. Funny time to have a meeting in the midst of all …
Contemplative Space
New Orleans: Everyone should have a good doctor. I have several. There is Dr. Emmett Aluli, my good friend who runs the clinic on Molokai Island in Hawaii, there’s Zach Polett, who runs Project Vote and is ACORN’s political director, but who went to Stanford medical school for two years before he hired on with me, …