Christmas in Antigua

Community Organizing International

Christmas in Antigua             Antigua           They take Christmas very seriously in Guatemala.  Virtually every night we have stumbled into a processional of various shapes and sizes with music, marchers, and a float or nativity scene borne in some fashion traveling Bethlehem.              The marketplaces have been full as the day comes closer.  At noon we …

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Wal-Mart Merry Christmas

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing

Wal-Mart Merry Christmas             Antigua           Scrooge seems to have decided to give little Timmy a lump of coal for Christmas this year.  After multi-year, no-holds barred resistance; Wal-Mart announced they were settling more than 60 back wage and hours cases around the country for close to $400,000,000 on the bottom and perhaps more like $700M …

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Blaming the Victims

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Blaming the Victims December 23, 2008                 Antigua   In the middle of gazillion dollar bailouts and bonuses for banks and newbies that became banks to get bailouts, there is an unreality to the hate patrol trashing autoworkers compared to the tut-tutting that accompanies the payment of Wall Street bonuses in millions for a job …

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