Santa Fe: Living wage campaigns have been at the forefront of all of our strategies for progressive economic development for the last decade almost. Of the 100 or so ordinances that have been won at the city or county level, the vast majority have been essentially “prevailing wage” measures. The building trades virtually created the notion …
Month: May 2004
Home Child Care Workers Partnership
Los Angeles: Sometimes small steps can take us great distances, and a meeting one night this week in California was an example of just that. Almost twenty organizers from ACORN and from the Service Employees International Union who had been working separately from San Diego to Sacramento met together to start the hard work of figuring …
Prison is a State of Mind
New Orleans I can not get over this mayhem we have created in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. I am not sure any of us should ever get over it. There are very few times when — in all honesty — one finds it embarrassing to be an American, but this is absolutely one …