Detroit There were several excellent discussions I enjoyed at the Labor Notes Conference that focused on the challenges and lessons learned in organizing home health and home day care workers. In Citizen Wealth and anywhere else I have argued that the one indisputable success in the last generation of labor organizing has been the breakthrough …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Arizona: Immigration Alamo or Selma?
Detroit Mark Brenner of Labor Notes hit the nail on the head in talking with me: they were doing great, he said, but the labor movement was doing terribly. The point is worth more thought and discussion, but it also made me think about other movements that are at a crossroads as well, and the …
Treme: Early Looks
New Orleans Coming and going in New Orleans, five will get you ten, someone will say something or ask about what you think of Treme, the new David Simon show on HBO. Long local reference and reality check articles are written in the days after the broadcast by Keith Spera of the Times-Picayune who is …