Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …
Category: Labor Organizing
Christmas in Shanghai
Shanghai We had a magical day in Shanghai for Christmas. Delightfully, there is no real commercialism for Christmas here. One sees some Christmas trees in the lobby of hotels currying dollars from the tourists of course, but none of it has any meaning to the millions of Chinese in the city. It’s another Monday, just another …
Minimum Wage Pushing the Vote
New Orleans At the board meeting of the Organizers’ Forum, which returned to New Orleans after a year’s hiatus because of the storm, we were looking at the 2006 elections and their meaning and what might be unfolding over the coming several years. The facts, figures and insights were flying furiously! Daniel Gotoff, the senior researcher, …