Stop Evictions and Freeze Rents

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03142020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     The ACORN Union in England has launched a petition in the wake of the coronavirus that has already gained 3000 signatures and rising. As reported in The Independent The ACORN union, which supports tenants, workers and residents, launched a petition this week urging the government …

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The Virus May be Fatal to the Trump Campaign

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     The reviews of  President Trump’s press conference, where he claimed he was trying to calm the American people and was expected to show leadership in meeting the covid-19 crisis, were almost uniformly bad.  The stock market reacted by cratering to the worst level since …

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Frontline Care Workers Are Undervalued

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03122020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       In the “time of the virus,” I talked to Jackie Dartz, a member of the Local 100 United Labor Unions executive board and longtime steward at LARC, the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens, about direct care workers that were at the frontlines about their …

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