New Orleans More than 15 years ago during the HOTROC organizing campaign for hotel workers in New Orleans, I worked with an organizer named David Keiffer. Dave had been around a number of organizations before partnering with me and flying an AFL-CIO banner at the time with stints going back to the AM/FM canvass program …
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Big Environmental Groups Play Transactional Politics with Climate Change
New Orleans I’ve read Toronto-based author, researcher, and activist Naomi Klein’s books No Logo and Shock Doctrine with interest. Unquestionably, Klein has established herself as one of the premier corporate critics among the progressive forces, and that’s a good thing. Wading into her latest book, This Changes Everything, in which she addresses climate change, I …
The Limits and Pitfalls of Google’s Search Engine
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wadesworldoct17.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s true that none of us seem to be able to live without Google. There are other search engines, and for one reason or another many of us dip our toe in and still find later, despite our misgivings, that we are still using Google mail even …