It was a bumpy flight into Toronto with gray skies and rain everywhere, clearing occasionally so the changing leaves could plop down. The weather was, well, Canadian! Somehow we made it on time to our annual “check-in” meeting with the national staff of the Canadian district of the Steelworkers. It was sad to learn that …
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Teachers and Health Care Workers Strike, Welcome to Cairo!
Cairo The first day is a “shakeout” day for the Organizers’ Forum and with an outstanding delegation of over 20 people from diverse and outstanding organizations in the USA and Canada, just moving about from place to place was a project in the crowds and chaos of Cairo. After an excellent orientation offered by …
Yes Ma’am, The Help, and Housekeeping
New Orleans I haven’t been able to bring myself to see, The Help, a movie ostensibly set in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi where a young, white writer gives voice to her African-American maid friends during the Civil Rights era. Fantasy has little appeal for me. I did go to see the Gary …