New Orleans Something very exciting seems to be happening in this presidential race. The fact that the McCain campaign refers Obama as “the One” just about says it all. Seeing the pictures on television and the newspapers of the crowds that listened to Obama speak in Berlin were amazing. German police estimate that …
Month: July 2008
Free Choice Organizing Op
San Francisco Talking to union organizers up and down California in this state that still stands for a major part of what exists for union density in the United States, I often asked if real plans were beginning to be made in case Obama won and in case labor reform passed in the form …
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San Francisco In one of the final, powerful sets of Tides Momentum presentations a woman named Mary Anne Hitt, the executive director of Appalachian Voices, spoke about “mountain top removal” or what coal mountain removal and the destruction of 450 mountains in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. There was a standing ovation from the crowd. …