Archive for September, 2011

¡Hola! Everybody… Busy, busy, busy! Today, in addition to all the insanity, I facilitated two women’s workshops, attended a steering committee meeting for a campaign against racial profiling and police brutality (here), and stopped by Occupy Wall St. for an hour or so before heading home. Yeah… LOL! * * * Update: Occupy Wall St., [...]

¡Hola! Everybody… So… after watching the heavy-handed treatment of the Wall St. protestors… I decided to join in. I have friends/ former colleagues who have been Occupying Wall St. from the get, and early on I had decided not to get involved. Being involved in two other campaigns (one confronting racial profiling by the NYPD), [...]

¡Hola! Everybody… It is Labor Day — people died so you could have this day off; for the right to bargain collectively, for the 40-hour week, and paid vacations. People died so that you could enjoy workplace safety and work while maintain at least a semblance of human dignity and living wage. The freedom to [...]