Food Stamp Record November 26, 2008 New Orleans The mounting economic tragedy seems to have us poised on the edge of the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression. A footnote to this mess is that according to Jane Black writing in today’s Washington Post, we are also poised to set a new record in …
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Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration
Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration November 25, 2008 New Orleans Sometimes I find surprises in very unlikely places and in this case it was in a recently released Brookings Institute report called, “Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relationships: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Troubled World.” The report was as mainline as I could imagine and produced …
Attacking Alexi
Attacking Alexi November 22, 2008 New Orleans One of the most interesting and exciting people that our delegation with the Organizers’ Forum met when we traveled to Russia in 2007 was a rank-and-file union steward at the Ford plant in St. Petersburg named Alexei Etmanov, who after leading a wildcat strike had become a …