Rock Creek Sitting around the cooking area on Rock Creek, the subject of Lyme disease came up quickly, and there was a good reason for that. Partly, folks were talking about a fairly recent article in The New Yorker that almost all of us had read. The article was one of those maddening, though painfully …
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Workplace Occupations
Rock Creek The Kindle needed some juice and it was too early in the morning to get the converter humming, so I grabbed a book for a couple of hours that had been gathering dust at home, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis by Kari …
Understanding Chavez by Understanding Alinsky?
Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …