February 25, 2021 Little Rock Wilbur Mills moved me to Arkansas in 1970. He didn’t reach out and offer me a job to work for him or anything like that. Quite the opposite. George Wiley asked me to move from Massachusetts, where I was the head organizer of the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Welfare …
Tag: Welfare Rights
A Passion for Equality
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River The other day I read a belated obituary on Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Nick Kotz. He had passed away at 87 on his cattle farm in Virginia of a freak accident involving a vehicle. The obit celebrated his work, while an investigative reporter based in …
Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …