Los Angeles When you read this on Friday, I will be somewhere near Saturday flying across the Pacific to Sydney, Australia as part of the Organizers’ Forum delegation to yet another new country where few, if any, of us have ever been in order to find out what organizing looks like for workers and communities …
Category: Personal Writings
More Civil Rights for Disabled
New Orleans Whenever civil rights are expanded, it is a time for applause and attention, and yesterday in Congress by a near unanimous vote the rights of the disabled were significantly expanded. As always, this bill was a compromise, but for a change it was also a bit of corrective surgery, because the bill …
Organizing Math
New Orleans Just so we can all keep up at home, as the numbers keep growing, let’s see if we can keep our organizing math together on some of the big issues that are in front of us these days: With the sudden about face yesterday when the US Federal Reserve agreed …