Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their staff at Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, it was only a matter of time that we stopped talking about Citizen …
Category: Organizing
Terrorism in Arizona
New Orleans The dots have to be connected. Almost at the same time that the Arizona legislature goes virtually hate-crime with draconian anti-immigrant legislation prepared for the Governor’s signature, the federales under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), headed by ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and her ICE-capades suit up 800 armed agents, helicopers, rolling stock …
Andy Stern and the Long Goodbye
Washington As I made my way back from half-way across the world, I watched the story unfold even before leaving Mumbai of first reports that Andy Stern would resign as President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and then a message from him by the time that I arrived at Dulles that there was …