New Orleans Ok. I hear you! It’s time to admit that I have a LOT to learn about predicting the shifting sides among the great Canadian electorate. Two months ago I opined that even though it appeared to all observers, including the ACORN superstars in our ACORN Canada national office in Vancouver, that this was …
Month: January 2006
Families First?
San Francisco Organizing works behind the scenes, normally, so it was unsettling in one week to read a four-part series in the Los Angeles Times looking behind the curtains at the legacy of Cesar Chavez and another hard piece on the east coast looking at the problems of the King family in Atlanta. The King …
The Living Wage Movement
New Orleans The cover of the New York Times Magazine for Sunday, January 15th could not have been better for the living wage movement. There was a picture of Manuela Soto, an assistant hotel housekeeper employed in the hospitality industry of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The cover shot graphically looked at the difference a $2.00 …