Memphis The ACORN Canada organizing staff held its Year End/Year Begin staff meeting in Memphis with a side trip to Little Rock this year. Among the highlights of the meetings in Memphis were visits at the University of Memphis with ex-Texas and South Dakota ACORN organizer, Steve Soifer, now head of the Social Work Department …
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Nelson Mandela and Dewey Armstrong Both Passed This Way
New Orleans The news broke like a cold chill on an unbelievably warm and humid New Orleans December day. Nelson Mandela, the great South African freedom fighter, who with perseverance and countless comrades and allies, was able to see the end of the cruelty and injustice of apartheid and assist as President in ushering …
The Low Percentage Odds for Short-term Victory for Fast Food Workers
New Orleans In a somewhat perplexing article by Arun Gupta on fast food workers organizing featured in the December issue of In These Times, once the reader was able to get past the obvious, his feinted surprise, and anonymous ex-organizer interviews about recent fast food worker organizing (that these are publicity strikes, that they are …