Detroit The Working Families Party is a ballot line party in New York State that ACORN helped found and with different hats has supported consistently as a way to count our members votes more vividly and express our issues in a political form more powerfully. In New York and several other states fusion is legal, …
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Marching for a Climate Change Turning Point
New Orleans The march in New York demanding action on climate change was hard to get a handle on from a distance. The Associated Press called the number 100,000. The New York Times studiously avoided ever giving a number in the aftermath of the march, simply saying there were tens of thousands. Finally, a …
Worrying and Wisconsin and Walker
New Orleans Local 100 has an election today for about 50 school custodial workers with a private contractor from out of state. After many elections you can almost smell victory or defeat. Looking at the vital statistics of this organizing drive, this one smells like a winner. Wisconsin and today’s vote on the recall of …