On Hotel Workers Rising
In recent decades, the hotel industry has witnessed the rapid consolidation and expansion of international hotel corporations. The hotel industry used to be dominated by local players and local markets. But today the industry is dominated by multimillion dollar global corporations. Hotel companies such as Hilton and Marriott are present in every major city, and employ thousands of workers.
A recent New York Daily News opinion piece said this campaign has "the potential to be a historic turning point for the labor movement in America. ... [The campaign is a] test of organized labor’s ability to become a people’s movement again... ."
On the South Carolina tour
YORK COUNTY, S.C. — John Edwards just left a dusty backwoods community called Blackmon Road, one of the poorest places in South Carolina. The road back here used to be called Trash Pile Road because everyone threw their garbage here.
It was a low-key campaign visit that drew about 300 people. They were standing around in the glaring sunlight on the stone-strewn grounds when Mr. Edwards arrived; he took a basketball from some kids and shot three clean, consecutive baskets, a good omen, he said, for his campaign. Then he walked around, chatted with people and posed for pictures.
"A lot of America doesn’t know that people live like this," Mr. Edwards said, stepping outside to a waiting scrum of reporters, photographers and cameras.
Donna Berry, 56, the founder of A Place for Hope, walked around with Mr. Edwards and said later that she talked to him about the poverty here. She said he was "heartfelt" in his interest and promised he would help. She was wearing a "Haight-Ashbury" sweatshirt, a reminder, she said, of her idealism when she was younger.
Danny Glover, the actor, accompanied Mr. Edwards
This is why I like Edwards. He is not just campainging, he is teaching America about the importance of Unions and the necessity to look at Poverty and find ways to spot light the need to change it.
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Also, Edwards appears a little sad that Stephen Colbert was taken off the SC democratic ballot, leaving him to be the only 'Native Son'
"I don’t know, I kind of liked Colbert on the ballot, myself," Mr. Edwards said. "I think it adds a little interest."
Mr. Colbert is a native of South Carolina. He paid $2,500 for a spot on the Democratic ballot, but party officials deemed his candidacy was not serious and they decided Thursday to turn down his application.
So now, once again, Mr. Edwards is the only native South Carolinian
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...
Just thought I'd ad that in.
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