New Orleans I take all of these constant attacks personally, because they are meant to be personal, but I understand them as political, and increasingly believe that we are missing that critical difference in responding to the hater-ation of the right. The Van Jones push-out is a perfect example. Jones has made a hard mark …
Working Poor Catch a Break
Washington It’s hard to make everyone happy around the nation’s capitol these days. I was reading a column in the Washington Examiner that rued the fact that a koffee-klatch meeting with friends and interested Citizen Wealth readers in the Baltimore basement of SEIU 1199 wasn’t some kind of arena rock venue and where the columnist …
Thanking John Sweeney
Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree. I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer with …