New Orleans Sometimes in organizing we can see bits and pieces that seem isolated from place to place start to come together more firmly into something that might be greater than the sum of some small parts. Perhaps this is happening now for advocates and adherents of disability rights over the issues of accommodation in …
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Tesco, Once the Walmart Killer, Limps out of USA
Little Rock It was only a bit more than 6 years ago when grocery unions feared that Tesco, the giant United Kingdom grocery conglomerate, might have found the secret sauce in both beating unions and Walmart although with labor’s West Coast containment strategies as they entered Los Angeles with what seemed a nearly unbeatable …
UltraViolet Brings Feminism to Internet Action Campaigns
Calgary Rick Ross, the rapper, was groveling a little bit late in his game. He waited until he felt the pain in his pocketbook when Reebok, the giant shoemaker, dropped his ass for lyrics that gave props to rape after giving women knockout drugs. Even after the Steubenville, Ohio football fiasco, Reebok waited too late as …