New Orleans Obvious disclosure: I’m a huge proponent of the strategic and tactical value of local and statewide initiative on our issues to build organizational power and actually win campaign results. This is obvious given the number of living wage, lifeline utility, sales tax on food & medicine, generic drug, minimum wage increase, and single …
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National Crisis with Local Pain: Rebuilding Water and Sewer Infrastructure
Los Osos and Morro Bay There may not be too many issues more complex, expensive, or unpleasant to discuss than the emerging national crisis involving the mixing of our drinking water and our sewage wastewater, the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to protect against pollution, and the enormous expense that such infrastructure rebuilding would attempt to …
Fresh Look at Cooperatives: Arizmendi, CoFed, and Mondragon
Oakland Things come in threes? Fate reaches out for you? Of all things in the Bay Area in recent days I started to feel like this was happening to me and cooperatives. I was stumbling over and into them everywhere I went. Visiting with Peter Olney, the organizing director for ILWU, he told me fascinating …