St. Petersburg I ran into Chris Allemano at a Thai restaurant near our new WARN office in St. Pete on MLK in the shadow of the Tropicana Stadium. Incidentally we stopped another Wal-Mart superstore yesterday, ho-hum–(http://www.warnwalmart.org/). Chris is a big ACORN supporter, great friend, and as it happens a lawyer. She asked me as …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Mister Master
Miami As I ran for the airport I picked up the mail and threw it in a bag to read on the plane. One new piece of business was volume #1, number #1 of something called “Brain Food” by American Environics. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are the principals behind this outfit, and both …
Wal-Mart Redux
Dallas On the ground I know we are beating Wal-Mart! Our WARN project in Florida has prevented the new construction of any Wal-Mart Superstores for the last more than 28 months. We have the bottled up throughout central Florida. We are increasingly optimistic that we can stop them in Merced, California with our coalition …