Los Osos and Morro Bay There may not be too many issues more complex, expensive, or unpleasant to discuss than the emerging national crisis involving the mixing of our drinking water and our sewage wastewater, the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to protect against pollution, and the enormous expense that such infrastructure rebuilding would attempt to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Fresh Look at Cooperatives: Arizmendi, CoFed, and Mondragon
Oakland Things come in threes? Fate reaches out for you? Of all things in the Bay Area in recent days I started to feel like this was happening to me and cooperatives. I was stumbling over and into them everywhere I went. Visiting with Peter Olney, the organizing director for ILWU, he told me fascinating …
Jordan Flaherty’s Perspective on Contemporary Movements and Media
New Orleans Jordan Flaherty in recent years has been based in New Orleans and has developed a singular, progressive voice and wide ranging critique of public affairs. Jordan was the driving force behind “Left Turn” for some years until it ceased regular distribution. He was the author of Floodlines which looked at post-Katrina New Orleans …