Nairobi What an exciting time to follow breakthroughs in the United States! Today, there was a turning point in our organizing partnership with the United Federation of Teachers, when Governor Spitzer signed the executive order giving bargaining rights to 55,000 home day care workers marking a turning point after an extensive organizing campaign over the …
Category: Financial Justice
Stealing Social Security
Chicago Just when you think there’s nothing else that they can do, you stumble on yet some new way that the moneychangers have come up with to pick the pocketbooks of the biscuit cookers. From reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal (which I gather may become a Murdock tabloid soon), it seems …
MillLands
Mumbai One of the largest development and peoples’ housing fights in the world is located in the heart of Mumbai on 600 acres of what is now astronomically valuable land where more than 80 textile mills were first built by the British more than 150 years ago used to fume and toil. Mill lands were …