Tampa We were enmeshed in the Site Fighters Conference for two (2) days as well as the rollout of the Wal-Mart Workers Association and its campaign to win unemployment benefits for workers caught on the backside of scheduling cutbacks (more on all of this as the world turns), so I had missed reading the papers. …
Month: September 2005
The Deadly Cost of Being Poor
St. Petersburg – We are over the top in New Orleans now. We are at the point where the level of grief, frustration, and helplessness boils over everywhere. Headlines in Tampa and St. Petersburg simply said “Chaos” and “Anarchy.” This is now a case of total government failure, and a national disgrace. This is a …
Maintaining
St. Petersburg Scores of people continue to reach out from all corners to offer to help. I’ve lost count and can not seem to keep the list. An old friend of Jeff Karlson, the head of ACORN’s Tax Centers, contacted me to try to see if I could confirm that he was safe. I knew he …