Little Rock Ever wondered what your representatives in Congress really listen to other than lobbyists, local business people, and of course their donors? Well, Kathryn Schulz in an informative piece in The New Yorker waded into the Washington swamp and came back with some interesting answers to that question. A lot of people might think …
Category: Organizing
A Day Without Women Here is a Day About Women Everywhere
Little Rock The limits of action without organization are hard to escape, and in the United States the call for a strike and actions by women to show America how badly the country would suffer without the contribution of women and their economic power was bound to suffer from the “revolution of rising expectations” set …
Flipping the Script on Panthers’ Bobbie Seale and AFL-CIO’s Rich Trumka
New Orleans It’s a topsy-turvy world out there. What was down, is up, and what was up seems down, and we’re all looking for solid ground. Take Bobby Seale, the controversial political and cultural icon of the 1960s and former Chairmen of the Black Panther Party. Steve Early, labor representative and journalist (and regular …