San Francisco Organizing works behind the scenes, normally, so it was unsettling in one week to read a four-part series in the Los Angeles Times looking behind the curtains at the legacy of Cesar Chavez and another hard piece on the east coast looking at the problems of the King family in Atlanta. The King …
Author: wade
The Living Wage Movement
New Orleans The cover of the New York Times Magazine for Sunday, January 15th could not have been better for the living wage movement. There was a picture of Manuela Soto, an assistant hotel housekeeper employed in the hospitality industry of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The cover shot graphically looked at the difference a $2.00 …
Gridlock!
New Orleans I fly all the time. I don’t miss planes. In decades of almost constant travel, I’ve messed up and missed a plane less than a handful of times, and in most cases the situations have been wild and extenuating. I certainly know how long it takes to get from my office in New …