Palermo Continued questions from Cairo to Palermo and a constant stream of email messages received on the road, convince me that the Occupy movement is building momentum. It is certainly getting attention, increasingly from serious organizers, labor unions, and others. The news coverage on BBC, Russia Today, and the CCTV Chinese English language station is …
Category: Organizing
Vic Bussie’s Death Marks Passage of Another Labor Milestone
New Orleans Victor Bussie had two careers as president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO for over 40 years with half at the zenith of the body’s power and influence in the state and the other half on its downward cycle. First elected in 1956 for a long time Vic was known with labor as the only …
Cyber-Communication Crackdowns Continue
Lafayette The notion that whole governments including ostensibly liberal democracies like the United Kingdom would simply throw all pretense about freedom of speech out the window when it comes to social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and various instant messaging services proves that all of the freedoms we take for granted are just that, taken …