Oakland Things come in threes? Fate reaches out for you? Of all things in the Bay Area in recent days I started to feel like this was happening to me and cooperatives. I was stumbling over and into them everywhere I went. Visiting with Peter Olney, the organizing director for ILWU, he told me fascinating …
Month: July 2012
Mortgage Disclosures and Modification Appeals are not Enough Reform
San Francisco There is no question that the new federal level Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a good thing and that its initiative to reshape and clarify the disclosure forms for homebuyers is important and necessary work. Writing such forms in plain and simple English is a needed step and requiring full transparency of …
Union Organizing Depressions in the Bay Area
San Francisco One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival. There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus on the full nature of …