New Orleans The movie, Selma, has attracted some attention and controversy. There were no nominations for best director or best movie and in fact for the first time in decades all of the Academy Awards were as lily white as the management structures of the big movie studios. Others thought President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t get a fair shake …
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Mutual Aid for the Rest of Us
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wadesworldjan30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Maybe it’s because it’s the season? Not winter, but the season in the sense that “for every time there is a season,” as the psalm records. In this season, thinking about friends, comrades over decades of mutual struggle por la causa, and family who suddenly …
On-Demand Economy, “Utter Nonsense,” and Unequal Negotiation
New Orleans When we affiliated with SEIU initially in 1984, the one condition imposed on our local union in New Orleans was that we not organize the city police. They had had a bad experience with a group they had tried to affiliate then had gone rouge and struck to hold Mardi Gras hostage. No …