Frontline Care Workers Are Undervalued

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       In the “time of the virus,” I talked to Jackie Dartz, a member of the Local 100 United Labor Unions executive board and longtime steward at LARC, the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens, about direct care workers that were at the frontlines about their …

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Coronavirus Gutting Platform Capitalism and Promoting A Real Safety Net

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        As the virus and its impact spreads, it is creating a new world of unexpected consequences and reckonings for outdated assumptions. Here’s one that might be uncomfortable news for the White House:  we do live in one world, and walls will not protect us. …

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O’Keefe, Dirty Tricks, and Spies

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       When you’re wrong, it’s best to spit it out and get it over, and, boy, have I been wrong about this one.  I keep saying that James O’Keefe and his so-called Project Veritas exploits are over and done.  His spy-boy antics are often ridiculous …

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