New Orleans Two months after the Katrina we were finally able to make our way back down to New Orleans and spend a night in our own home in our own bed for the first time on Saturday night. I went by the rally called by ACORN, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the NAACP, and others on the …
Category: Community Organizing
Organizing Workers at the Frontier
Dallas For 18 years we have held an annual labor board/staff retreat with all of the troops of Local 880 and Local 100 SEIU. This year was different in a lot of ways. First, we were meeting at South Fork Ranch in Dallas. Everyone kept asking how we came to South Fork, the scene of the …
Evacuees in New York City
New York City In DC and NYC we met with Fortune 500 companies one after the other to talk about a long list of business, but central to the list — what were their ideas and plans for New Orleans and how would they help. It was a long, slogging two days of meetings where progress …