Politicizing Unemployment

Community Organizing COVID-19 Economics Financial Justice

  Marble Falls     I stumbled on a surprising item in the Washington Post.  A handful of states have carved out exceptions for workers voluntarily leaving their jobs because they are refusing employer compliance with the vaccine mandate.  These deep red states want these anti-vax protestors to get unemployment.  I could hardly believe my eyes, but seeing is believing as they wrote that … …

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Pollution Kills, Just Slowly

Climate Change Community Organizing DC Politics International

      Marble Falls      As the calendar turns to mark the end of the second year of the pandemic, we went old school, and headed for the hills.  To be more exact, we went back to Arkansas, and, more specifically, the Ozarks.   Mountains, perhaps I should say more accurately, but having been born in Wyoming and raised in Colorado and …

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Could Direct Action Stop Climate Change?

Climate Change Community Organizing DC Politics

Little Rock      Sometimes you stumble over something so obvious, you shake your head wondering why your thinking was so patterned that it was in danger of becoming more habitual than flexible in facing organizing problems.  An organizer always has to challenge herself not to simply fall back on a practiced repertoire of tactics and strategies in facing …

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