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 …
Category: Organizing
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 …
Resisting Deportations
Edinburgh In the new orders being rolled out by the Trump Administration targeting immigrants and possibly Muslims and others, many have pointed out that we are now going to be creating secret communities of immigrants unprotected by usual law and order, victimized by employers and wage theft, susceptible to human trafficking, and devolving into slums. …