New Orleans Over the last five or six months since I’ve added to my daily chores serving as the station manager at our 29-year old 100,000 watt radio station, KABF/Fm 88.3, broadcasting from Little Rock, every Friday either when I’m there or by patching in via telephone, I do an interview show from 9:00 …
Tag: National Day Labor Organizing Network
Immigration Reform Strategy Still Hoping for Obama
New Orleans Sixty odd folks ranging from business, labor,, and even some advocates met with President Obama to talk about a new plan for immigration reform in the troubled political environment we now face and in the still painful wake of last year’s loss of the DREAM Act. A tongue in cheek tweet from an …
Guest Worker Abuses
Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the …