Istanbul       In Instanbul we spent many hours with first the General Secretary of Tekgida-Is, and then the General Organizing Secretary, and finally with the actual organizers and even some stewards of this union of industrial food, beverage, and tobacco workers.  Scratching like chickens in the yard, we were finally getting somewhere closer to a real …

Los Angeles       Questionable tactics have met a predictable media backlash trying to argue that the movement has lost its groove and the mass base has gone elsewhere.  A called march in DC recently delivered only about 5000 people, if reports are to be believed.  Another set of “Labor Day” rallies in several cities were also …

July 10, 2006 – Columbus – Woke at 430 AM in dark. I listened in this 40+ year old dorm to showers running and doors slamming as other organizers moved to prepare luggage for loading in vast depots for bus pickups all over the Ohio State campus. None of this is easy, but it is …