Amherst Once I showed up at Gordon Hall at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Professor Dan Clawson and others shared with me a message they had printed from the internet of the 9/12 projects strategy for disrupting my talk on “Workers and the Poor: Lessons for Organizing in the Age of Obama and Globalization.” …
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Springfield College and the 9/12ers
Springfield It’s wild and wooly out there on the trail these days. I gave the annual Social Science lecture about my book, Citizen Wealth, and its themes at Springfield College last night to 200+ students, faculty, and members of the community in Marsh Hall on the campus. All of this capped a marathon of four …
Election Lessons on the Hudson
New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot. Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his next career as a …