New Orleans About the only global response to rural poverty, where millions are living on less than $1.25 per day, has been where the poor have voted with their feet and migrated to urban areas, often finding themselves in similar impoverishment. Some small hope is breaking through the hardscrabble though in a study by the …
Month: August 2015
An Organizing Retreat and Defeat at Walmart
New Orleans As we have looked at the effort of the United Food and Commercial Workers’ avowed aim over recent years to organize Walmart using various strategies, many of them based on our own earlier work, and some breaking new and different ground with OUR Walmart in mobilizing actions using the internet and launching mini-strikes …
Puerto Rico Is So Screwed
New Orleans Reading the papers on the financial dilemma of the United States’ Puerto Rican colony you get the notion that this is just the Greek mess that we already don’t understand clearly, but in Spanglish and closer to home. Talking to Willie Cosme, veteran of KABF, Local 100, and still host of the ever …