New Orleans Dear New York Times Public Editor: Is it really news, if it is “news” about your own op-ed, which was a letter to the editor, and is still “news about nothing?” A mid-level executive pulling down 1% money of between $500K and $750K at the giant Wall Street mega-firm Goldman Sachs writes a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Decline of the California Model of Union Organizing
New Orleans A funny thing happened to this piece on the way to the journal, New Labor Forum. Invited by the book review editors to do an essay that started as Working for Justice: The LA Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Editors: Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro (ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2010), …
Blaming the Victims: Catholic Church Attack on SNAP & Dave Clohessy
New Orleans Blaming the victim may be more American than apple pie at this point. Apple pie is less and less a staple of the American diet, but blaming the victims seems to be the default mode for institutions large and small that are unable to correct their cultures. It is inarguable that the Catholic …