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 …
Category: Organizing
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. …
Petitioning Can Be Dangerous
Reprint of New York Times article March 19, 2012 Activist Said to Be Missing in China By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING —Liu Ping, a rights activist who has angered officials in China with her advocacy of free elections and support of labor and women’s rights issues, has been missing since early this month after she …