New Orleans The Interfaith Workers’ Justice network was having a summit at Tulane University in New Orleans and its director, Kim Bobo, and communications guy, Danny Postel, invited us to come down for the plenary Saturday night. The summit had included a number of worker center and day labor activists and old friends like Jim …
Koch’s Coalition Victory
New Orleans Enjoying lunch at the Praline Connection with an old friend, Rev. Jim Sessions from Knoxville (formerly Union Community Fund director, Highlander director, and still a voice for justice and reconciliation everywhere), he told me a story, that somehow I had missed that showed the power of the perfect storm when the we have …
War Against Child Labor
New Orleans The International Labor Organization declares today the Day of the War against Child Labor. I posted pictures from the BBC website of child workers from India, thinking about the waste pickers we are organizing there. This was on my mind because Judith Francorsi, an Australian journalist now living in Mumbai, asked me about …