Half-Moon Bay Let me share an experience out of the ordinary for me at least and that was being on a panel among the literary lions at the annual Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The panel was titled “American Problems, Southern Solutions” after the recently published Tony Dunbar edited volume to which several …
Category: Labor Organizing
Blog 852: 300 Million
Bogota We finally all got to talk to each other. Shashi Bhushan and I met with the asian caucus that quickly became the india plus caucus as first one then another jumped in to speak. SEWA, the Self Employed Women’s Association, had an organizer and two leaders present. They claim 31,000 waste-picking members and three …
Reich May Be Right
New Orleans Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Clinton was quoted in the Sunday New York Times arguing that the candidates should make a larger issue of the housing crises. We have to agree with that 100%! He makes the well-known point that 70% of the wealth of the middle-class voters are tied …