New Orleans Eric Lee is one of those underground labor heroes for the labor of love he does in collecting information from the internet about unions and labor issues all over the globe and putting them out from his LabourStart website. A notice he sent out today was forwarded to me by a friend, and …
Author: wade
Buycotting
New Orleans Any “protest” that has too many names is bound to be questionable, and that seems the case with some of the efforts to direct consumer consumption along political paths. Among the assortment I saw recently in a piece by Anand Giridharadas in the Times: “boycotting,” ethical consumerism, moral economics, latte activism, critical consumption, …
Election Lessons on the Hudson
New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot. Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his next career as a …