Youngstown Sitting down with most of the organizing staff of MVOC, the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, the first surprise was when they went around the room and all seem to have been raised and returned to this chunk of northeastern Ohio within about 60 miles of each other. For an organizing staff the odds of …
Month: March 2012
Steeltown
Youngstown I was in town to deliver a lecture in the Working Class Studies Series at Youngstown State University, but a lot of what interested me was to really get a sense of Youngstown after not having been here for several decades. Youngstown has become iconic as a picture of the impact of deindustrialization. …
Petitioning Can Be Dangerous
Reprint of New York Times article March 19, 2012 Activist Said to Be Missing in China By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING —Liu Ping, a rights activist who has angered officials in China with her advocacy of free elections and support of labor and women’s rights issues, has been missing since early this month after she …