Nashville Visiting with students and professors at Vanderbilt University was interesting and educational. The questions and concerns about organizing and organization building, both here and abroad, were deeply considered and fascinating. It was a good room, as they say. Tennessee did not have a good midterm. A former Democratic governor tried to right the ship …
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Signing up for the Taylor Swift Fan Club
Grenoble I haven’t been a big Taylor Swift fan. Even when she was country, she was poppy. Now that she’s all pop, I can’t really keep up. I know she sells a lot of music, and that she is often mentioned in the same breath as Beyonce, but who can tell from day to day. …
UAW Lesson: It Takes a Village to Win a Union Election
New Orleans Ok, I was dead wrong. I called the union election for the UAW at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a solid victory for the union, and I could hardly wait to see whether or not this opened up important organizing throughout the South. Surprisingly, and tragically, when the votes were counted, …