Bernie Sanders Immigration Bill Amendment

Mr. President, I want to speak about an amendment that I will be offering with Senator Grassley to the Immigration Reform Bill, Amendment 1332. This amendment has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the Programmers Guild and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. But, before I speak about the amendment, I want to focus on

Labor Movement History – Jim Moran and PhilaPOSH

I was a VISTA community organizer in 1979 at the Philadelphia Council of Neighborhood Organizations (PCNO), a coalition of over 200 neighborhood groups founded by a Jesuit priest, Father Joseph Kakalec. I was assigned to the Bridesburg section of the city where there were concerns that the cancer rate was much higher than the rest