Little Rock Landed from Baltimore in time to go spend several hours at White Water Tavern celebrating the 29th Anniversary birthday party for KABF there with some great music including our own Back Roads star DJ, Amy Garland, who opened the affair as well as Bryan Frazier, our assistant manager’s own band ripping it up. …
Category: Organizing
Marching on Washington for Jobs and Justice
New Orleans We commemorate lots of things in the United States like the Civil War and the Declaration of Independence, so it is a good thing to see real respect given and attention paid to the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech in 1963. There’s a nice feeling …
Chavez, Alinsky, the UFW, and the Modern Labor Movement
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 …