San Francisco: This is the season when the blue of the morning sky is at its darkest and most beautiful blue an hour before dawn. This morning the wind had been shaking the hotel room and on the bay the waves were whipping and gulls were flying in place and making no progress. Closer to …
Category: Labor Organizing
Leaving Children Behind
New Orleans: We know Rod Paige too well! America, if you had only listened, we tried to tell you even during his confirmation hearing that things were sketchy back home in Houston and there was more flim-flam that good fortune for children in the schools there. Our union, Local 100, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO went …
Cuba: Varadero
Tonight we have hot water, even though we are all bunked in suites with four people and a shared living room. Everyone is gritty, but happy! We have made it to Varadero, the Habaneros playa – a small town of 18000 with long running beaches that used to be the playground for people from Havana, …