New Orleans In the wake of the Chicago teachers’ strike there is a lot of talk about the real issues provoking the strike. The Times seems them as trivial. There’s a lot of ink pitting it as a personality problem between the prickly and notoriously difficult Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the every bit his equal, …
Category: Labor Organizing
Shifting Political Values: Public Schooled and American Made
Toronto In American public and political life there used to be some clear tests that determined whether you were “one of us” or “one of them,” whether you were progressive or conservative, stood with the people or stood with special interests. These markers were so stark and clear that a generation ago it would have …
The Organizer Behind “The Salt of the Earth”
Gananoque One of the things that Judy Duncan makes sure has “pride of place” in the annual fall training sessions with ACORN Canada staff is “movie” night. We’ve watched many of the classics (Norma Rae, which they loved, Bread and Roses with Adrian Brody, which they hated, and so forth). This year it might have fallen …