Lisbon We are pushing this year to a close in fine fashion and full fury. The vote count in Kenya is proceeding somewhat calmly in a tight contest, we are watching closely for its impact on organizing. We are shocked by the situation in Pakistan and the assassination of former Prime Minister Bhutto in …
Category: Labor Organizing
Book Report: Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds
Lisbon Part of my holiday reading has included Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy edited by Lowell Turner and Daniel B. Cornfield and published this year (2007) by ILR/Cornell University Press. The book was already worth my price of admission for introducing me to Sellers essay that included …
Home and Homework
Tokyo The world is getting smaller, but waking up early to run, then taking a bus at 9 AM to Incheon, then flying from Incheon to Tokyo at noon and from there at 4 PM to Los Angeles to arrive at 945 AM on Saturday and finally to New Orleans by 525 PM, still …