Sydney We woke to rain and an in-coming front, so we were drowned rats when we walked into the house that officed Immigrant Women’s Speak-out Association (IWSA) in the northwest suburbs. Jane Corpuz-Brock, another Filipino woman, interestingly, directed the program focusing on working to move women through the system to citizenship and …
Month: September 2008
Get Up and Go!
Sydney We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds. First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston. …
Bailout Blues
Sydney The price tags when past ordinary organizing math over the weekend. Add the proposed $700 billion to create a “toxic waste” dump for Wall Street, and we are now going to be near a trillion dollars to the tax payers for what Bush called Wall Street’s “drunken” spree. Rightly, there should be some …