Mexico City At a distance I had crossed my fingers and hoped that the latest scheming right-wing video-scam on the pimp-prostitute theme that had brought down ACORN in the end, would only scuff up Planned Parenthood, be a one-day wonder in the press cycle, and go its way into the dustbin of history. Writing about …
Month: February 2011
Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World
Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to make the point about unions, even weakened and beleaguered, and the vital role they are playing around the world in standing up …
Green Grows in Mexico City
Mexico City Walking from a meeting at the Universidad Obrera de Mexico (UOM), passing by the Zocalo at the center of the city with the Cathedral on my right, I did a double take at the long green line of fancy pedi-cabs lined up along street. Drivers stood wiping off the dust on their green …