New Orleans In the alphabet soup of labor, the National Federation of Nurses with 34,000 members in Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Ohio, announced that they were merging with the American Federation of Teachers, coupling the AFT’s 48,000 nurses to bring that union up to 82,000 nurses. They said they wanted to go to a union …
Category: Organizing
Great Progress in Saving Historic Foote Homes, the Last Memphis Housing Project
Memphis Looking back over the last year, the report and discussion of the progress made by community and university partners around the Vance Avenue Collaborative and the campaign to save Foote Homes, the historic 500-unit complex that stands in the words of Memphis housing czar Robert Lipscomb as the “last public housing project in the …
Anonymous and The “Do-ocracy”
Dauphine Island The loose assemblage of computer activists and hackers that came together from time to time to protest or, more often, wreck havoc on what they perceived to be threats on internet freedom or their allies like Wikileaks or Occupy Wall Street is an interesting organizational phenomenon in my view because it defies easy …