San Francisco: Not surprisingly, when the largest union in the United States convenes every four years and thousands of duly elected delegates come from every nook and corner, it is quite an event – part business meeting and part spectacle all mixed with intense debate, bread, and circus. Because the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has …
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Bridging the Gap on Healthcare
San Francisco: Somewhere between five and ten thousand people poured out of Crissy Field along the San Francisco Bay to walk the 4.5 mile roundtrip across the Golden Gate Bridge. This march was largely organized by the Service Employees International Union to coordinate with the SEIU quadrennial convention being held at the same time. The weather …
Summer School for Social Change
Montreal: In June it is hard not to love this city where old and new, French and English, all come together in a different mix every day. What made Montreal especially interesting to me though was the opportunity to spend a couple of days going from class to class in a very unusual summer school – …