Oakland Let’s start from the bedrock notion that no one is in love with taxes. The month is almost always longer than the money, and another dollar here and there sometimes can make a difference. But, a citizen’s duty also includes support of the community, and like it or not, that means paying the bills …
Category: Labor Organizing
Legislating Wal-Mart
San Diego Lee Scott, Wal-Mart CEO, was in Rogers, Arkansas, a long spit from their world headquarters in Bentonville, meeting the press. Rick Smith, the head of WARN and WWA in Florida, and I were in northern San Diego County meeting with local leadership of some of California’s largest and most aggressive local unions of the United …
In the Lower 9th Ward
New Orleans Living in New Orleans one becomes myopic perhaps? Day to day one counts small, sometimes very small, things as great progress: a store opens, houses cleaned, a stoplight working, or a streetlight coming on. Perhaps we are counting trees and are lost to the forest? It was impossible for me to say “no” …