New Orleans The right blogosphere and websites were all heavy breathing about another “secret” tape claiming longtime SEIU organizer and strategist, Stephen Lerner, was an “economic terrorist” advocating that the masses should bring the banks and Wall Street to its knees. At one level it is hard to suppress a yawn. Anger at …
Month: March 2011
Labor versus Business: From Economic Wars to Culture Wars?
New Orleans I wonder with the diminishing strength of unions whether we are about to finally move from front page economic wars to the back page culture wars so much enjoyed by the right. Not able to fully move women back to the kitchen or African-Americans back to the plantation, perhaps they feel they will …
Education is Not Reducing Poverty
New Orleans Anytime there’s an article with a headline that claims there is “hope for the world’s poorest” and the author is someone as sturdy as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, my fingers are crossed and my eyes are flying. In this case he was touting a new book and argument by a British …