New Orleans A chain of emails and phone calls found me walking into a late Sunday afternoon meetup at a community center in New Orleans on the edge of the French Quarter. I wasn’t there to attend the group but to visit briefly with its organizer, Beau Willimon, best known currently as the writer and …
Month: April 2017
Bad Boy Banks Running Wild While Creating Credit Desert
New Orleans Rather than learning something about proper corporate behavior in the banking meltdown they triggered with their housing securitization schemes and unwillingness to supervise mortgage brokers, the gazillion dollar bailout seems to have taught the banking establishment that they could act in all ways with impunity. As we move towards the ten year mark …
Mike Garcia Stood Strong for Low Waged Workers
New Orleans We used to kid a long time and excellent organizer who worked for our sister union, Local 880. In an early session as a newly hired organizer being handed a standard training document extracted from remarks that Cesar Chavez had made about the importance of the dues system in building the farmworkers’ union, …