New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Cooperatives and Building Productive Democracy
Madison I took one wrong turn and ended up on the wrong side of the track waiting for a train, which only heightened my anticipation at what the Just Coffee Cooperative of coffee roasters might be like. From across the tracks the street seemed to be smaller multi-unit apartments nicely appointed running down a row. Finally …
Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall
Madison The life-and-death struggle in Wisconsin to turn back the radical and sweeping rightwing program of Governor Scott Walker being waged by progressive forces is entering another set of critical challenges. The primary to choose a Democratic opponent to Walker votes on May 8th only weeks away with the general election a month later on …