Hoppers Take a Stand on Unfair Labor Practices

Labor Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11122019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        Local 100, United Labor Unions, has represented hoppers for more than twenty-five years.  The hopper is a mechanical term of art on a garbage truck.  It’s the round cylinder at back of the truck where the garbage is collected and crushed before heading to …

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Faking the Voter Strategies

ACORN

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11112019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Democracy is under assault everywhere it seems, and, no, I’m not just taking about the White House. Russia is busy interfering with elections in, are you ready for this, Madagascar.  How did this out of the way island become a focus of geopolitics? India, …

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Second Saturday Salon in Columbus

ACORN

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11102019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsColumbus        It has been a long day, but a good one in Columbus, Ohio. I had met for hours with my colleague and partner in the Voter Purge Project, Steve Tingley-Hock, in Marysville, a bit more than 30 miles out of town, and then at the Lincoln …

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