New Orleans In the modern workforce economy of informal workers, contingent employees, and endless layers of subcontracting, both domestically and internationally, the obvious conclusion is that when no one is watching, no one cares, and, perhaps worse, no one is ever accountable. This is not just a “race to the bottom,” but deliberate strategies to …
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Obama Campaign Scientists Try to Spin Basic ACORN-style Community Organizing Methodologies
New Orleans More than 40 years ago I used to go downtown a couple of times a week to the Walgreens on Main Street and drink very cheap, very bad coffee with an Arkansas political savant named Max Allison. Max was a behind the scene political operator. He had run the campaigns that first elected …
Fighting for the Last Housing Project, Marshall Islands Arkansas, Chinese Enviros
New Orleans I went to sleep with firecrackers booming over the Mississippi River and woke up to chickens crowing in the yard next door, but it helps get me out of bed and on the road to Memphis and to working with citizens’ groups and others in the Bluff City, trying to make the redevelopment …