Hong Kong 31 Days in Exile! I don’t remember now why I had picked this book up at Kramer’s in DuPont Circle in DC. Impulse? Probably. Saw it on a shelf and decided that it would be interesting and that it was something I did not now much about. I was probably more attracted to its …
Month: September 2005
9/11?
San Francisco 30 Days in Exile People keep comparing the destruction of New Orleans with the terrorism of 9/11. Both were horrible but the analogy does no one a service. Both were terrible tragedies. 9/11 had a higher death count, while Katrina is still uncovering its dead. The World Trade Center was largely a place …
Wal-Mart Workers Association
San Francisco A new organization announced itself recently in Florida when a group of Wal-Mart associates came before the press and explained that they had organized an association with several hundred members in Orlando, Tampa, and St. Petersburg. Their first campaign was to help their co-workers experiencing drastic changes in schedules to file for …