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...© Bill Hughes Photos Workers picket outside a Hyatt hotel in Baltimore. “Hyatt Corporation is on the offensive to dismantle the standards of fair wages, working conditions, and job protections that union hotel workers have achieved after decades of struggle,” the author writes. ...

.... ELEVEN PM! I’d be lucky to get to my hotel by 3:00 AM the next morning at that rate. After a cross-country flight and no sleep I would be a wreck for my presentation the next day. When I informed the twenty-something kid...

... capitalism, seemingly limiting its vision to the laudable but limited goal ofbringing workers the material benefits of middle-class life. When the garment workers and the hotel and restaurant workers joined forces to create...

...Protesters engage in a “meditation blockade” to pressure the Marriott Hotel to stop hosting Urban Shield Oakland, a weapons expo and training conference aimed at militarizing police forces nationwide. Joshua Eaton (Buddhist Peace Fellowship) ...

...Ayelet Waldman Or is that dream all that we have left? In this new, previously unimaginable world, is it too fantastical to dream and aspire toward a politics of togetherness in Palestine-Israel? But of course, last spring when I sat in a conference room of the Ambassador Hotel in East...

... not by these various haters, stormed hotels, a popular malcy. lasting settlement. but by the structural violence of our restaurant, a Jewish cultural The horrible violence in Meanwhile, Israeli settlers global economic system. It’s only center, hospitals...

... just another form of mastery. The protection of wilder­ level, joined with an acceptance of unjust political and economic ness areas and the biodiversity they contain may express natural­ systems at the social level. Hang up that used towel at the hotel, ist principles of precaution...

... government may Cuba is a beautiful island. Most Americans, if they recall Cuba not appreciate the politically corrosive power of economic free­ at all, remember only the glamorous nightclubs, hotels, and dom that would result from millions of American tourists and beaches of a Mafia-controlled...

... for restaurants and travel hotel first-class ities, facil­ tutoring and centers fitness on tens of dollars of millions arenas, and stadiums on of dollars of millions dreds depart­ athletics in squandered support often to are equity resources gender the But IX. Title support...

... to an explanation. Instead, a terrible hollowness seemed to turn me inside out. I was dead, I suspected; this wasn’t Córdoba but some postmortem way station toward a more permanent destination. Perhaps I was to fester in piety until God made me move on. I woke up, startled, in a pitch-black Spanish hotel room...

... explained that the organizers were saying, “The Jews are here—they know how to organize! ” PJA ’s goal is to live up to that reputation by supporting sweatshop workers, hotel workers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, food service workers, car washers (especially in Los Angeles), janitors...

... and New York, of Ramallah and Tel Aviv, and not just in a fancy hotel in Washington. Roberto Rivera, a hip-hop educator and friend of mine, likes to tell progressive activists, “We don’t need to reinvent...

... colored pennants and cracked lights in cafes where piles of herbs glistened back at me I passed out from sun and arak and camel jokes in a massive hotel, my room opened up to the Euphrates that was churning in the moonlight. It is of course impossible in a brief review to do justice...

... eview by B ettin a A p th eker UST BEFORE THANKSGIVING discrimination in hiring practices in the In this book Robert Cohen has written 2009, regents ofthe University hotel industry, auto sales, and banking. a definitive biography of Mario Savio. He...

... what we have in common with one another and be stronger allies for each other’s peoples. I was having dinner with an African American colleague in the small dining room at a hotel on a rural college campus. She was expecting a Black student to join us for dinner. He was late, and she anxiously kept...

... them because those holidays were the few times they wouldn’t be calling us, sending us notices, or pounding on our shabby doors in the single room occupancy hotels or the overpriced and uninhabitable apartments they owned that we barely resided in, asking for their rent money. Every single one...