Wal-Mart Merry Christmas

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing

Wal-Mart Merry Christmas             Antigua           Scrooge seems to have decided to give little Timmy a lump of coal for Christmas this year.  After multi-year, no-holds barred resistance; Wal-Mart announced they were settling more than 60 back wage and hours cases around the country for close to $400,000,000 on the bottom and perhaps more like $700M …

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Tactics Watch: Auction Bid

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Tactics Watch:  Auction Bid December 21, 2008                 Antigua                I am always on the watch for breakthrough tactics, so I marveled at the effectiveness, and courage, of a young man’s virtually singlehanded blocking of the last of the Bush land-lease giveaways.  Tim DeChristopher, an econ student at the University of Utah managed to win more …

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Arrests in Phoenix

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Arrests in Phoenix December 18, 2008                 Antigua, Guatemala                       Sitting on the edge of the immigration strategy session in Washington on Tuesday, I was surprised when an arm lock gripped by neck from behind until I felt a kiss on my cheek and realized it was Carmen Arias, one of the great leaders of …

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