Calgary I first heard about Clement Pettijean, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, when I got a notice of a dialogue between him and Alex Han, the new editor of In These Times. I know Alex from his time years ago as an organizer for Local 880 SEIU, our old ULU sister organization. …
Category: Wade’s World
Islands in the Coming Climate Storm
Marble Falls There are a million problems to confront when we’re dealing with climate change. Tackling the issue as a campaign, we have to sort out how to talk about it. Not long ago on Wade’s World we looked at whether or not we might be more successful making the case with less …
Dador, Havana, New Orleans, Tasmania and a Whole Other World
Pearl River This starts with Lauren Fajardo. I had met her in Toronto when she was helping out with some of the earlier shooting on what became The Organizer film. She was from Cuba. We knew her partner, Joey Carey, who was producing the film, and had gone to school with our daughter, Dine’. …