I first started to look at disability as a class issue when 18 of our members from Piedmont Peace Project and I attended a national peace movement conference in Atlanta. Six of us were disabled and three in wheelchairs, including me. No other group had visibly disabled people present, although I’m sure some hidden disabilities were there. We were in an accessible hotel, but when we got dressed up and went to the main event in a nearby historic church, we arrived only to find out we could not enter. We could not get up the steps or inside the doors.
Poverty and Disability: the Vicious Circle
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Connecticut Public Employee Activists Fight For Pension Justice
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Out of the limelight, public employee activists have achieved a near victory in their quest for a fair pension plan. However, fulfillment of a national precedent setting grievance award to allow Connecticut state employees to transfer from a defined contribution 401(k) type retirement plan into the state’s traditional defined benefit pension system has been delayed.
After Wisconsin: Stop the Corporate Tax Dodgers
Sunday, February 20th, 2011The protests in Wisconsin could easily spread. While not every governor will recklessly attack collective bargaining, all states are facing major budget constraints.
The Plague of the Nonprofits
Saturday, December 4th, 2010How do you talk with your friends about a problem you think they’re causing? First: get their attention. That’s what my title’s designed to do. But I don’t want to make you mad: so I’m sorry to be confrontational. It’s easy to condemn corporate power, profiteering and executive officer greed, for-sale politicians, and unresponsive bureaucracies, but not so easy to criticize innovative, small-scale, community-based or advocacy, progressive, entrepreneurial, relevant, low-budget nonprofits. That’s what I propose here to do.
