Shreveport The rush to raise wages sometimes seems feast or famine. While “Fight for $15” was trying to launch another publicity strike at McDonald’s, the only real notice of the workers’ rallies was a question their march in Milwaukee prompted from Fox Business News to the Republican debaters. New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo seized …
Month: November 2015
A Racial Justice Movement is Here Now!
New Orleans There was Ferguson and protests erupted around similar outrages, and the notion of a building movement seemed local and directed mainly at police practices and profiling. The President picked up the challenge and looked at decriminalizing some drug beefs and taking steps for early release in Federal prison facilities. Black Lives Matter seemed …
On the Scene Report on the Myanmar Election
New Orleans Today I’m sharing an on-the-ground report of the Election Day excitement from Yangon, Myanmar of the first democratically conducted election in more than twenty-five years. The report is from Mike Orders, a recently retired business representative from the British Columbia Government Employees Union in Vancouver, who served as an election observer there in …