Pittsburgh Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen Hayden Deckard, former ACORN office director in Pittsburgh now doing the same for ACTION United. In no time we were visiting with CWA and other union workers rallying at Verizon to support their contract fight, and then sitting down …
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Adios, Andrew Breitbart
New Orleans Andrew Breitbart’s career speaks loudly to the ongoing American phenomena of the winking carnie barker, P. T. Barnum huckster who always had something to sell and could find the suckers that would buy it. Breitbart’s passionate mission to destroy “progressive institutions” was clearly stated and there were plenty of rubes in cities large …
Fox News, Voter IDs, and Mandatory Voting
New Orleans Fox News Special Reports doing a documentary on voting rights would seem to some to be an oxymoron, while others would be certain that it would be me that was the moron for even being willing to sit down with these folks, but, hey, someone has to carry the weight and, frankly, the …