Author Barbara Ehrenreich (answering audience questions fielded by Judd Esty-Kendall) is critical of how the Obama Administration is handling the economy and the bailouts: "The emergency they're looking at is not the emergency I'm looking at."
The Bangor Daily News carried a good interview with Barbara Ehrenreich in the paper today.
Journalist Ehrenreich speaks at UM ...
By Abigail Curtis | BDN Staff
ORONO, Maine ? When journalist Barbara Ehrenreich did the research for "Nickel and Dimed," her scathing indictment of blue-collar work in America, she spent a month cleaning houses in southern Maine.A radio program from the Orono event will broadcast locally at a future date.
She thought that perhaps in one of America's whitest states, people would treat each other better than in places with high immigration rates and more racial diversity. But, she said, she was wrong.
"Maine was very heartbreaking," she said in a phone interview this weekend. "These were women who maybe in another generation would have worked for mills. And now they were in this disgusting, $6-an-hour cleaning job, being just ground down."
One major note that emerged from the program is that it is time to clearly and in large numbers let Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins know that the workers of Maine want the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) to pass in order to level the playing field for workers.
Keep checking here and at foodandmedicine.org for more information on the Ehernreich broadcast and many other upcoming events related to the campaign for the EFCA.
Posted by The Owl on Apr 07 at 17:35. Filed under: Labor and business
