New Orleans This week for the first time I attended a meeting of the Port Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Having written the head of the Port for help in getting more fairtrade coffee shipped through New Orleans and receiving no answer, it seemed I had little choice but to take a shot at …
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Immigration Reform Bus Rolling South
New Orleans The last several years of efforts for immigration reform in the United States have had been twists and turns, sometimes seeming to move forward, and other times were falling behind. Enforcement and deportations are up, Congress is stalled, states have become battlegrounds, some relief has come from the White House for DREAM-students and …
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 …