New Orleans Frank Bardacke’s Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers is a mountain of a book at 800 pages. Reportedly, it took Bardacke fifteen years to write and was edited down from twice that length. A friend said to me recently that he believed it might be …
Category: Organizing
The Deepening Injustice and Illegality of Congressional Anti-ACORN Bans
New Orleans The original Congressional budget ban on “ACORN, its affiliates, and allied organizations” continues to be renewed annually in different ways by the eager beaver hater brigade in Congress, and was done so again recently, reportedly for the thirteenth time since 2009. I decided to take a list at the 2009 original ban list …
New Strategy at AFL-CIO or Same Ol’, Same Ol’?
New Orleans I watched a brief interview for USA Today with Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, on the eve of their coming convention, as he argued that with the diminishing numbers, there were changes coming at the federation. The changes he talked about mainly were some kind of broader affiliation program that was enrolling …