Taranto My second day as a “professor” at La Scuola di Bollenti Spirit, the School of Hot Spirits, we were set to dive into how to look at campaigns. Roberto Covolo, the school’s director started with an exposition of some of the differences in the Italian understanding of “state” responsibility and reflections that he and …
Category: Financial Justice
Affordable Care Act Renewal Time and the Puzzles for Workers
New Orleans The window has now opened for new signups under the Affordable Care Act. This time around there won’t be any do-overs or make-ups, I’ll bet. The Administration is already soft selling the numbers and predicting less than 10 million enrollees by the end of 2015, dampening expectations, either tactically or determinedly. This is …
John Beam, Veteran of ACORN’s Heroic Era
New Orleans More than 15 years ago during the HOTROC organizing campaign for hotel workers in New Orleans, I worked with an organizer named David Keiffer. Dave had been around a number of organizations before partnering with me and flying an AFL-CIO banner at the time with stints going back to the AM/FM canvass program …