More

Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz

RSS Feed
GET UPDATES FROM Michael Berkowitz
Michael Berkowitz has worked on the Wisconsin Recall and most recently the Occupy Movement. He was Land Use Planning Consultant to the government of China for the last dozen years, a past Senior Manager of the San Francisco Planning Department, the Planning Commissioner for the City of Berkeley, and Special Assistant to the Vice Mayor of Berkeley. He also taught at Pikeville College in Pikeville, Kentucky, worked with Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights with miners and was a Business Agent and Officer of SEIU. He has Masters degrees from Yale and Stanford in history.

Blog Entries by Michael Berkowitz

The Canadian Elections: Majorities, Mixed Messages and Mergers?

(1) Comments | Posted June 24, 2011 | 3:37 PM

Is there anything to be learned from Canada's elections last month? Is it portentous for progressives? A triumph for Harper's Conservatives, as the prime minister himself and many in the media would have us believe?

The Harper government did win what seems at first to be a resounding victory....

Read Post