Little Rock The Occupy Little Rock (OLR) encampment is close to celebrating its 6-month anniversary and still ensconced firmly in their space near the Interstate and not far from the Clinton Library. When my meetings are over today, I’ll drive by and see how they are making it. I was part of a panel …
Category: Organizing
Clean Rivers, Working Families, and Big Ideas
Pittsburgh Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen Hayden Deckard, former ACORN office director in Pittsburgh now doing the same for ACTION United. In no time we were visiting with CWA and other union workers rallying at Verizon to support their contract fight, and then sitting down …
Steeltown
Youngstown I was in town to deliver a lecture in the Working Class Studies Series at Youngstown State University, but a lot of what interested me was to really get a sense of Youngstown after not having been here for several decades. Youngstown has become iconic as a picture of the impact of deindustrialization. …