San Francisco One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival. There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus on the full nature of …
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Blowing the Students’ Keg: California, Quebec, and Chile
New Orleans This fall will undoubtedly see a huge number of students mobilized by the November election, but I’m starting to believe that the student army that is going to be activated this fall is going to be marching to a different tune for a change: their own self-interest. The evidence may be isolated, but …
Darrell Issa is Vulnerable, Time to Take Him Out of Congress!
Buenos Aires Yes, I’m in Buenos Aires. The weather is overcast and cool, because it’s winter in the Southern Cone after all. I can see the impact of inflation everywhere. $3.50 for an expresso doble now, a special tourist visa for Americans and Canadians since 2009, remis from the airport now almost a third to …