Thessaloniki The point is so obvious that it almost seems trivial. Of course, Europe is different from the United States and every country within the European Union is also different from the others in history, culture, and often language. No visitor fails to remark about the feeling in Europe of walking in ancient footsteps. Walking …
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Can Ideology Save an Organization?
Thessaloniki The twenty people watching “The Organizer” documentary screening in the classroom at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, were all either PhD candidates in political science or professors. They began with a good, open-minded attitude and were friendly and tolerant as we worked to get the pieces together at the last minute. We …
How Many Rural Electric Cooperatives Can Stand the Glare?
New Orleans In 2016 after an exhaustive research project on all of the rural electric cooperatives in the twelve Southern states ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center published two reports on our website, as well as in two issues of Social Policy. One looked at the lack of diversity and absence …