New Orleans Talking to Steve Early, labor journalist and activist, recently on Wade’s World about the debate over the value of global leverage in organizing drives by the UAW at Volkswagen and CWA at T-Mobile, got me looking around for other examples of organizations grabbing global handles to increase the pressure in their campaigns. One …
Month: May 2014
Keystone XL Pipeline Jamming Up Arkansas and Louisiana Politics
New Orleans If you look at a map of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline designed to move heavy, tar sands oil from the Alberta, Canada to refineries and shipping around Port Arthur and Houston, Texas, it doesn’t run through either Arkansas or Louisiana soil, yet somehow the pipeline is already running through the heart of …
Criminals, Organizers and Many Others Had BlackBerries in Common
New Orleans I used, and loved, a BlackBerry for years, as a second data-only device largely for international travel, when the cost structure was great for that sort of thing. The keyboard was so easy to manage that my daughter was so convinced I could not make the change to a touch screen that my current …