Denver When the Organizers’ Forum visited with various unions and community-based organizations in Ankara and Istanbul in 2006, one of the most experiences we shared was a visit to a Roma community on the east, Asian side of Istanbul across the Bosporous. There we met Hacer Foggo, a young woman organizer and activist who was …
Category: Ideas and Issues
James Murdoch is NOT a Wimp
New Orleans Just for the record I’m getting tired of all of the backbiting and whispering in the papers and the television news about why Rupert’s son, James Murdoch, a tall strapping lad in his 30’s, did not stand up for the old man when under shaving cream assault the other day before Parliament. I …
Wendi Murdoch: Ride and Die Chick
New Orleans There’s not a whole lot to like about Rupert Murdoch, though I have to respect the fact that he has unquestionably built a media empire by hook or by crook. He testified before Parliament in London yesterday claiming his ignorance of gross misbehavior by subordinates involved in the phone hacking scandal in the …