New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …
Category: Organizing
Cooperatives and Building Productive Democracy
Madison I took one wrong turn and ended up on the wrong side of the track waiting for a train, which only heightened my anticipation at what the Just Coffee Cooperative of coffee roasters might be like. From across the tracks the street seemed to be smaller multi-unit apartments nicely appointed running down a row. Finally …
Cost of Higher Education Stirring Students to Streets in Montreal
New Orleans I had not been paying enough attention to a random piece about students rallying in Montreal until my coattails were pulled the other day by a friend and colleague, Eric Shragg, who is a professor, author, and activist in that city. In a brief email he mentioned that the increase in US-terms was …