Pittsburgh Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen Hayden Deckard, former ACORN office director in Pittsburgh now doing the same for ACTION United. In no time we were visiting with CWA and other union workers rallying at Verizon to support their contract fight, and then sitting down …
Tag: Occupy
If Occupy Miami is the Present, Is there an Occupy Future?
New Orleans It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA. It’s not easy. It’s an eyesore and a headache. From city to city where Occupy still holds some ground (speaking in a spatial, rather than a political sense) they continue to be rooted out like the last vestiges …
Rethinking Occupy Meeting Process in the Neighborhood
New Orleans There’s nothing like watching a neighborhood civic association meeting to make one blush at having ever critiqued the sometimes maddening consensus process of the Occupy movement. Having watched several Occupy meetings weather the arduous process of coming to consensus, I had almost concluded that despite the way the process has defined much about …