February 25, 2021 Little Rock Wilbur Mills moved me to Arkansas in 1970. He didn’t reach out and offer me a job to work for him or anything like that. Quite the opposite. George Wiley asked me to move from Massachusetts, where I was the head organizer of the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Welfare …
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Super-sized Unemployment Benefits are Essential in a Depression
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Congress is going back to work. High on the agenda with the clock ticking is the next stimulus bill. Some things are clear. Mainly that the US economy is on its knees. Let’s look at the facts: 20 million people are unemployed. For the …
First Rule of Politics: Count the Votes
New Orleans The problem when businessmen go into politics is learning that it is more important to be able to count the votes than just the dollars in your bank account. You can buy a lot in politics, but not everything, because office holders really, really want to hold onto their day jobs, not just …