Dallas Going from office to office from Houston to Austin to Dallas then heading on towards Arkansas, going old school you get to hear a lot of what’s up on radio, including some zany scary songs on KNON in Dallas and RT’s great “Under the Influence” show on KABF with some Lou Reed songs by …
Month: October 2013
Organizing Strategy Based on Solidarity and Power
Houston Thinking about various strategies to rebuild the labor movement is a painful pastime for many organizers, but talking to Peter Olney, the organizing director for the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union, the fabled 60,000 West Coast dockworkers’ powerhouse, on my weekly radio show recently was a good primer on the basics for holding your …
Does the NSA Know How to Take NO for an Answer?
Houston President Obama is having to shovel behind the National Security Agency (NSA) way too much for anyone to feel that they are in check. The latest hullabaloo is not Brazil this time, but our old buddies in France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, who we have been counting on to keep Europe …