Wal-Mart Merry Christmas

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing

Wal-Mart Merry Christmas             Antigua           Scrooge seems to have decided to give little Timmy a lump of coal for Christmas this year.  After multi-year, no-holds barred resistance; Wal-Mart announced they were settling more than 60 back wage and hours cases around the country for close to $400,000,000 on the bottom and perhaps more like $700M …

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Tactical Watch: Shoe-time!

Ideas and Issues International

Tactical Watch:  Shoe-time!                 Antigua  Since we’re talking about tactics, this thing in the Iraq with Bush is out of hand.  I guess I meant out-of-foot, but anyway….We have to say that trying to physically attack the President of the United States is certainly the wrong thing to do.  Having seen the rewind, Bush did …

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YWAM

Ideas and Issues International

YWAM       Antigua There’s a whole world out there that is impossible to even imagine and walking through the cobblestones of Antigua, Guatemala, I inadvertently led our tribe right into it.  I was on point to find a cup of coffee for the team.  Earlier I had noticed a coffee shop with an interesting name:  heavenly grounds.  …

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