New Orleans US-Attorney General Eric Holder was in New Orleans yesterday to announce a $4.5 billion settlement with British Petroleum on criminal charges. It isn’t easy in this country to convict corporations of criminality, all evidence to the contrary, so having them plead out to their obvious culpability in the environmental and human tragedy caused …
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Obama Campaign Scientists Try to Spin Basic ACORN-style Community Organizing Methodologies
New Orleans More than 40 years ago I used to go downtown a couple of times a week to the Walgreens on Main Street and drink very cheap, very bad coffee with an Arkansas political savant named Max Allison. Max was a behind the scene political operator. He had run the campaigns that first elected …
Advocating Alternative Models for Community & Labor Organizing in Japan
Tokyo Ken Yamazaki is the deputy senior research officer in the international affairs branch of the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training, a Phd, just published author on community organizing, and a helluva guy in my book. Having visited New Orleans recently with his delegation as they tried to better understand labor and community organizing, …