New Orleans Over the last week I found it hard and frustrating to come up with a coherent picture of the current predicament of the labor movement both here and yon. Talking to a long tenured colleague at the Change to Win federation in the USA, my brother remarked soberly that private sector union density …
Category: ACORN
Continued Global Oppression of Non-Profits
Mexico City This was another rough year for nonprofits in many countries around the world. Ever since the Organizers’ Forum visited Egypt, after the revolution, and we visited with the outstanding Center for Trade Union and Worker Services that is the central nonprofit supporting the development of an independent labor movement in that country, I …
A Charter School’s “Mission Creep” in St. Louis
New Orleans The bimonthly newsletter, Poverty and Race, is one of those semi-archaic, old school artifacts that still comes, unadorned, in the mail of all things, on buff colored paper without pictures, as it has for many decades, while steadfastly documenting and debating the necessary and ongoing steps to reduce poverty and the destructive impact …