Public Unions are Adjusting Their Strategies around Strikes and Checkoff

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

New Orleans    Public employee unions are trying to recalibrate to find a future, and there’s hope, no matter the naysayers. Case in point of course has to be the success of the West Virginia teachers and their strike that continues to galvanize the labor movement and give courage and conviction to other unions elsewhere.  Their …

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Criminal Injustice in Bail Bond Exploitation and Jury Selection and Verdict System

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans    No April Fool’s, I’m proud to live in New Orleans.  It takes character and resilience to weather the storm.  The city is welcoming and distinct, diverse and textured.  Traveling around the world it brings smiles to faces and always “I wanna comes.”  It’s also a place of shame that triggers anger, and today …

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Immunization and Other Public Health Shortages Reveal Weaknesses of Conservative Response

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

Little Rock   A friend and comrade made the simple, but totally correct, observation that the weaknesses in the political positions from both the right and left, Democrats and Republicans, is that they were both arguing over insurance, when the American people only care about healthcare.  Nowhere is this more obvious than when you consider the …

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