Springfield One year ago a tornado cut a 6 mile swatch of destruction through Springfield, Massachusetts, and I was meeting with labor leaders and other activists at the Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO offices to discuss the comparisons between New Orleans and Springfield in the rebuilding. It was depressing in many ways because even after 7 ½ years …
Tag: Hurricane Katrina
Force-placed Insurance and Me
New Orleans I find no joy in reading about forced-placed insurance, but I take great satisfaction in seeing the farce and fraud of such anti-consumer insurance coming to light. Quoting Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of Financial Services from Gretchen Morgenson’s “Fair Game” column in the Times, Force-placed insurance appears to be the dirty little secret of the …
Changing the Paradigm on Resources for Organizing
New Orleans I will talk about this a lot more, and I’ve been talking about this a lot before, but the article in Sunday’s Times-Picayune is a flashing neon sign that I’m going “all in” on a number of bets that recognize that we have to change the paradigm of resources to organizing domestically and …