New Orleans James Orange was on the AFL-CIO Southern Regional staff working with various groups when I was directing the HOTROC organizing campaign, a joint program with ACORN, the Service Employees, HERE, and the Operating Engineers to unite hotel and hospitality workers throughout New Orleans. Ken Johnson, the AFL-CIO’s southern regional director, detached Orange …
Author: wade
Do We Have A Case
New Orleans Rick Smith, heading our St. Petersburg research team, forwarded me a piece this morning done by Katrina Vanden Heuvel of the Nation based on a conversation she was having with Jesse Jackson who was calling from New Delhi. Most of it was old hat, but pulling the threads together it made a …
Triple Play
New Orleans This is a sneaky blog: a welcome to spring training curve ball kind of blog. Strike one: Fidel retired. This was supposed to be the day the right have prayed would happen to start a new day. Instead the reaction was “yawn,” and nothing has changed, but….note with interest editorials like …