San Francisco After a day of meetings by chance I was invited to sit in as a guest for a while at a monthly dinner on Mission at La Corneta of an ad hoc group of seasoned labor activists and organizers. After a while Mike Miller threw a topic on the table that everyone jumped …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Missing ACORN with Mid-Term Elections Coming
Portland A meeting is on the horizon this week with the Toronto elections commissioner and ACORN Canada to discuss how to meet ACORN’s demand that more voting stations be provided for city elections in the numerous high rise apartment buildings throughout the working districts of the city. ACORN Canada in its “Tenants Vote” campaign had …
Why So Little Change Won from BP Gulf Crisis?
New Orleans Fingers are crossed, breath held, and hopes soaring that finally there may be an interim fix on the British Petroleum BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. An article by David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post yesterday asked in a timely fashion why this oil crisis has not …