New Orleans Ralph Nadar may not know anything about politics, but he still knows a thing or two about effective tactics for consumers, specifically threatening and moving to small claims court to resolve obstinate problems. Recently I wrote desperately about problems Local 100 was having in getting a refund on a plane ticket for an …
Tag: Social Policy
Remembering Carlos Guerra and La Raza Unida
New Orleans I was sitting in a staff meeting two weeks ago and casually mentioned that my friend Carlos Guerra had said to me on the phone that he got more response from notes that he would post on Facebook than the silence he would sometimes get from columns he wrote for many years for …
Farm Workers in a Box
Orange Beach It’s not a happy experience reading Miriam Pawel’s book on the United Farm Workers Union, The Union of their Dreams, but for those of us in the work, it’s worth the climb no matter how unsettling the view. I reached out for her through Google triangulation in order to seek permission to excerpt …