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Minimum Wage & Movement Politics: On the Fight For Indexing
This past Thursday the four locals of SEIU in Minnesota held our annual lobby day at the Capitol. The top lobbying priority for SEIU members talked to their elected representatives about is raising the...
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Interview with Chipsterlife
Chipsterlife Chipsterlife – which, by the way, is the best name for a Latino podcast, ever – interviewed me this week. Filiberto is another recovering academic doing social justice work, and his...
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Wrong About Everything, Episode 7
In this week’s episode, we get serious about the border crisis and then very unserious about the Ghost of Sexting Presidents Past, Minnesota Republican Candidates Gone Wilde & much more. Download...
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Minneapolis School Board Race. Some Thoughts Before You Vote.
In Minneapolis this year, the race for the at-large school board seats has become one of the nastiest and divisive elections in recent memory. Trying to carve not even a middle path in this fight...
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Wrong About Everything This Week – #pointergate and more!
For those of you new to this blog through #pointergate, as you can see I don’t write very consistently. I wish I had the time. I do co-host a weekly podcast, “Wrong About Everything,” that is an...
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Race and Education. Some Thoughts, Post #pointergate
This is the first of two, maybe more, posts about education and the polarized debate surrounding it in Minneapolis. This post provides mostly background thoughts. Subsequent posts will deal more...
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Through Pain, Towards Joy: Thoughts on the President’s Immigration Announcement
I wrote this recently as a reflection of a difficult period in my career as a union leader and organizer. I remembered it today as I watched news coverage of President Obama’s announcement tonight...
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“Trying to Concentrate in a Digital Age”
That is how MPR has titled a conversation I was a part of with Kerri Miller and Matthew Crawford, author of The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. You can...
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The Insanity of the “Wage Market”, or Income Inequality at the Capitol
This is a great story about the insane juxtapositions of our time. While DC lawmakers now talk about income inequality as a national problem, they work in a Capitol building where those who serve them...
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We Are Called to Greatness
Last night I was honored to receive an “Innovator Award” from Outfront Minnesota, the principal civil rights organization for LGBTQ people in our state. Writing a speech in the aftermath of last...
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