Dallas: I heard from Hugh Jackson the other day. Hugh is one of my Wyoming club, a small collection of us from the great state, who were born or raised or whatever there and really know that it is a special place and that Dick Cheney is nothing more than an abomination and embarrassment to us …
Month: August 2005
WARN Forces Wal-Mart to Blink
St. Petersburg: Close readers will remember the earlier entry here that detailed the WARN fight against the Wal-Mart proposal to build a super center on wetlands on Gandy Road in St. Petersburg. The day after a heavily attended and well covered roadside protest including all of the WARN alliance of organizations from ACORN to Sierra Club to …
Who Was that Masked Man?
Washington: Sometimes my colleague and comrade, Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s Field Director, kids me by saying, in what I sometimes pretend is sincere sympathy, rather than bitter irony, that, “It’s not easy being, Wade, the chief organizer, is it?” And, in that vein, since I have your attention now that I’m marching as part of the union …