Vancouver: Staying at a friend’s condo in the gas town area of Vancouver, I could see the freight containers being craned into place on the docks of the port throughout the night. The steel wheels of trains pushed them down the track and inland from this western port as they came in from the west. I …
Author: wade
Pimp My Ride
New Orleans: Everyone should have a favorite television show. Truth to tell, most everyone does in fact have one – even people who swear they never watch TV or only watch it sporadically (like me). Mine these days is on MTV. I stumbled onto it one Saturday evening a couple of weeks ago. I have no …
A week in Toronto
Toronto: The Community Leadership Centre (www.columbiainstitute.ca) reassembled our organizer trainees in Toronto to have them debrief from their first dozen weeks in the field and do some intensive training on campaign mechanics before their second stint of field assignments. We were a smaller, but hardier crew as we pulled into Victoria College on the University of …