From: December 24, 2022 Baja California Charity is a funny thing, not funny ha-ha, but funny in the sense that it has a million faces, or at least, as we have often discussed about tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals, it should have. As organizers, we often scoff at charity as band aid fixes that might ameliorate …
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NLRB Still Going Hard
Baja California Any list of Biden administration’s accomplishments for workers has to include the appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), especially its General Counsel, and the pathbreaking work they are doing. Admittedly some of this is low hanging fruit in undoing the pro-management bias of the Trump board. Another piece of the …
In Honduras, Lots of Issues, Little Money
Tegucigalpa There were six of us in the ACORN delegation. The president of ACORN Honduras Raul Rodriguez led the group, along with Erlyn Perez, ACORN’s head organizer, followed by two school principals who were ACORN members, Jany Montoya, the translator and Erlyn’s niece, and me. Our mission was to try to meet with …