Tag: politics
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Lobby hobby
Yesterday and today, I attended the Nebraska State AFL-CIO annual legislative conference as a delegate from my union. Representatives from several unions were in attendance, and the diversity of policy concerns was staggering. In the current political moment, this was to be expected – even so, there was a lot to absorb. On Tuesday we…
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Civil leave
Until I got involved with volunteer boards and consumer cooperatives, and took an actual government job, election work was my widest window into self-organization. My family was associated with politics — I attended a birthday party for Haley Barbour long before he was chair of the Republican National Committee — but I failed to heed…