New York City: Wake up and it’s another day, voice or no voice, in the madness and mayhem of the city. In a cruel scheduling irony though I had committed to speaking to a class at Sarah Lawrence College and being interviewed on the train going up and back to Bronxville from Grand Central. This was …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Leaving Children Behind
New Orleans: We know Rod Paige too well! America, if you had only listened, we tried to tell you even during his confirmation hearing that things were sketchy back home in Houston and there was more flim-flam that good fortune for children in the schools there. Our union, Local 100, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO went …
Environmental Immigrants?
New Orleans: The Sierra Club is well known as the gray lady of the environmental movement – big, old, and staid with huge resources – some $80 million a year in expenditures – and a largely passive, tree hugging membership. Led by Executive Director Carl Pope for some years, more recently the Sierra Club has …