New Orleans As part of Paladin Partners, Drummond Pike and I spent an invigorating and productive day meeting in Washington with Carlos Saavadra and Gaby Pacheco, two of the principle organizers behind the courageous and expectation-challenging push for the DREAM Act, which culminated in a near miss in Congress late in 2010. It is fair …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Republicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril
Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin. And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not Wisconsin or Indiana, then Ohio for sure. The great Midwestern flyover zone was front and center in every …
Sustainable Apparel Coalition Smell Test
New Orleans Last week something called the Sustainable Apparel Coalition was announced widely in the papers. The idea wasn’t bad: “environment and social impacts” of their products. The statement of the chair of the outfit from Patagonia said: “The largest and most influential corporations in apparel and footwear together with leading environmental and social organizations …