Natchitoches, Louisiana It is exciting to read about a living wage movement in the New York Times or to hear that Oprah will be putting a human face on low wage work on her show today. It’s a lot more exciting though to be in the fight and see the progress everyday! In recent weeks …
Category: Labor Organizing
Press Storm
Dallas Monday before dawn buses pulled out of Houston and other Texas cities filled with ACORN members who were damned if they were not going to be the first voters to take advantage of satellite polling places in Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. And, they were! A Houston Chronicle reporter rode with a couple …
Civil Rights Moment?
Ithaca, New York New England was still a raw way from spring. Daffodils were trying but the frost on cars and the iced over puddles told a different story when I was in Massachusetts and then again driving through the rain to Ithaca. On Wednesday night I spoke to a graduate class at the University …