New Orleans Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has this exactly right when she says the beating of bystanders, protestors, and women in Cairo’s Tafhir Square are “shocking.” Furthermore she added in a speech at Georgetown, “This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of …
Author: wade
The Exploding Informal Economy
Ocean Springs More research and documentation is emerging to strengthen my case that unless the labor movement devises a new and workable model (Link: http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/majority-unionism.pdf) for building majority unions that are effective for workers in the informal economy, there is no future for unions. Robert Neuwirth, who had earlier written on megaslums around the world, provides …
Restitution vs. Retribution from Fannie and Freddie
New Orleans After an endless three year investigation the SEC (Security & Exchange Commission) filed charges against the former CEO’s of the quasi-public housing finance giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, whose warm nicknames all speak to the badly mangled and badly needed home mortgage assistance we need now. The SEC decision seems to have …