Washington, D.C.: Nothing like being in the capitol of the United States a week after the Presidential election. In many of the meetings I attended, people seemed to be in some kind of sleep walking trance combined with post traumatic stress syndrome. They were also drowning in colors: red this, blue that; red state people, blue …
Category: Labor Organizing
The Deserted Battleground Missouri
St. Louis: Two months before we SEIU Local 100 and SEIU Local 880 had decided to have our 17th Annual Staff/Board Retreat in a battleground state, where we could combine our evaluation and planning of our work with some real time GOTV experience for our leaders and staff. In the luck of the draw Illinois, the …
One Night In Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam: It had been a long day in the city. I had run to the Indian Ocean at dawn, so that I could say that in one year I had run on both sides of that body of water with Mumbai, India on the east and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the east. Even …