New Orleans Wal-Mart continues to prove over and over again that it is the same ruthless, aggressive, take-no-prisoners company it has always been, it just puts a little more money out in the community than it once did and it pays lip service to some environmental issues when it suits the companies purpose to figure …
Category: Community Organizing
Worker Raises in NC and PA!
July 14, 2006 – Washington: There is a word for what we are doing with our campaign to raise the minimum wage across the country, even if it is one that progressives have had precious little reason to remember lately: winning! Just like the theme of our recent convention, we have “raised our states” in …
Becoming a Target
Columbus It is a weird (and I suppose discouraging) fact of contemporary public life in the mega-media and mile-a-minute internet market that there has become an inverse ratio of attack that comes with accomplishment. The bigger ACORN becomes, the more it becomes a target for the haters, the baiters, pretenders and posers, and the apologists …