Community Action
November 5, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I admit it -- the Dirt Diggers Digest is guilty of focusing on the badnews about corporate misdeeds. So in this post I will write aboutsomething positive: activist groups that are succeeding in changingcorporate behavior for the better. The occasion for this shift in emphasis is the recent announcementof the winners of the BENNY awards, which are given out by the Business Ethics Network.
October 23, 2009 -
This Saturday, Oct. 24 marks the International Day of Climate Action, a grassroots effort to draw attention to solutions to the climate crisis.
October 20, 2009 -
Decade
October 15, 2009 -
President Obama arrives in New Orleans today for his first visit to the Gulf Coast since he won the presidency.
October 15, 2009 -
By Sean Sellers, Labor Notes
October 2, 2009 -
Thursday the U.S. Census Bureau and Latino advocacy groups launched a campaign to heighten Latino participation in the 2010 census and to tackle current Census fears.
October 1, 2009 -
By Linda Meric Crystal Lee Sutton, the woman whose life inspired the 1979 film "Norma Rae," about a brave union organizer, died of cancer on Sept. 11 after struggling in 2008 with her health insurance company.
