Austin The failure of Comcast’s monopoly-merger mania would almost be Biblical in the “pride cometh before a fall” sense if it were not so predictable, and if, we, and thankfully a whole lot of other people in a whole lot of other places, had not repeatedly tried to tell them so and warn …
Month: April 2015
Beat Goes on with Action NC
Charlotte Pat McCoy, the executive director of Action NC, and I visited with a class of students at Charlotte School of Law who were trying to learn the often delicate dance required of partnering with community organizations, offering stories and advice, even if perhaps not helpfully in some cases. More fruitfully, we talked about campaigns …
Discovering Precarious Work and “Hotel Mama”
Charlotte Is it just me or is the mainstream starting to discover precarious employment? Maybe it’s the “fight for $15” push that’s opening eyes? Maybe it’s a residue of the Occupy 1% theme? Maybe it’s the yawning gap between the rich and the rest of us? I’m not sure, but I know two things. One, …