New Orleans We commemorate lots of things in the United States like the Civil War and the Declaration of Independence, so it is a good thing to see real respect given and attention paid to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech in 1963. There’s a nice feeling …
Month: August 2013
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
New Orleans At the Fair Grinds Dialogue , Stephanie Hepburn, co-author of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight, led us through the hall of horrors of forced labor and the little that is done about it around the world. She and Rita Simon had amassed stories and studies from twenty-four countries to …
Unions in the Crossfire in Egypt
New Orleans From Jump Street let me concede that I find the current coup and counterrevolution in Egypt confusing and contradictory. The hope of the Arab Spring has eroded over the last two years. The Organizer’s Forum visited Cairo then, and as exhilarating as many of the meetings were, we could already feel the people’s …