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NY State Assembly Chamber |
New Orleans Here’s some news that makes it easier to understand the full depths of the financial crises seizing families across America: New York State’s Assembly is on the verge of passing a “foreclosure holiday” bill that would prevent foreclosures for one-year! ACORN and its allies have pushed through the measure by a vote of 118-10 against what NY ACORN Executive Director Bertha Lewis reported as “fierce opposition by the banks.”
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New Orleans Coming back from India I have been catching up on this and that and one of the things I have tried to understand better is what the California Nurses’ Association (CNA) is doing in the labor movement.
I looked at the YouTube footage back and forth on the Labor Notes Conference. Yawn. Home footage of weak chanting and mostly milling around and low grade chaos as some folks stood with arms linked and some SEIU people dr... [more] Comments (3)
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New Orleans One day I have to read a petition signed by 100 professors, authors, and others, including a lot of friends of mine like Fran Piven and Mike Davis, asking Andy Stern and SEIU not to trustee SEIU United Healthcare Workers – West (UHW, old local 250) and the next a three page whatever by David Moberg of In These Times who poses the question to SEIU of “growth at what cost,” and the cost is allegedly union democracy as argued by Sal Ro... [more] Comments (0)
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the line at the foreclosure fair |
New Orleans Alicia Russell is one of our great ACORN leaders from Phoenix and the ACORN Western Regional Representative on the ACORN National Board. She works hard, takes the organization very, very seriously, is a pleasure to work with, and never ever calls me at home or on a Saturday evening. I was sitting at the kitchen table reading back newspapers and getting ready to mow the grass as the dusk cooled the city down and noticed that my cel... [more] Comments (2)
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New Orleans The huge story by Mimi Schwartz in the New York Times Magazine section ran on June 10, 2007, almost a year ago under the banner of “Shop Stewards on Fantasy Island,” and at the time seemed to be an opening salvo in a major initiative by SEIU, as the USA’s largest union to prove that there was huge organizing traction and public support in organizing at the wide gap between rich and poor. Sch... [more] Comments (0)
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finishing the hawkers meeting...Cheryl picks up the banner, puts the chairs up |
Frankfurt Leaving India and reflecting on my most recent days in Mumbai, I was struck by some of the small, but poignant things that I found in some ways quietly moving, because they spoke to the “universals” of organizing and the work. I was struck by simple things.
Watching Cheryl Deutsch and Bilip Modha, the organizers behind the Hawkers meeting making sure they got the banner, helping put up the chairs at the end of the ... [more] Comments (0)
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Anti-FDI in Retail Press Conference in central Mumbai |
Mumbai Around the table were our key leaders from the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), the huge traders organization that had been with us since the beginning of the India FDI Watch Campaign, the leader of the Congress of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in Mumbai, the head of the hawkers and the mathadi workers in Navi Mumbai along with Vinod Shetty, ACORN India Director, and me. We had five television cameras and a total of 45 work... [more] Comments (0)
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Katrina Was Not A Natural Disaster audio
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