Boston Talking to organizers the last night about security workers being subcontracted, one casually mentioned what could and could not be done because of the Boston Living Wage ordinance. At Boston University with Professor Lee Staples as we made the case and claims for the power of community organizing it was natural to once again …
Month: December 2009
36000 USA Flu Deaths Every Year
Boston After discussing Citizen Wealth in Harvard Square at the Co-op, I found myself fascinated by a similar maximum eligible participation type of problem while talking to a friend who is a public health nurse with the City of Boston. I asked her a casual question about how work was going and she replied, exasperatingly, …
Shaming Wall Street? Foreclosure Moratorium!
Boston There’s a full moon. The Saints are 11-0 and whipped the New England Patriots like a red-headed stepchild. Now the Treasury Department has announced another new strategy for dealing with foreclosures, given that nothing else has had much of a dent on the problem: shaming. I guess anything is possible these days, but what …