New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …
Category: Organizing
Tech Tactics in China Strikes
New Orleans An article by David Barboza and Keith Bradsher in the Times had a fascinating discussion of the ways that workers in the strikes spreading through China are using digital technology, especially their cell phones and access to Skype and other systems not controlled by the state or open to spying by the company …
M&M’s for School Breakfast
Houston Listening to the reports in our all day, all union staff meeting in Houston, one caught my ear because at first couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has represented the bulk of the Houston support workers in the Houston Independent School District for over 18 years. The …