What Do the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and Trash Collection in San Francisco Have in Common?
Posted by Wilton Alston on April 24, 2010 10:17 AM “Dr. King did not make the boycott, the boycott made Dr. King.” ~ Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement The lessons of the past keep being repeated, over and over and over, and Blogger Mike Mish Shedlock posted a fascinating story on his website regarding a situation in San Francisco. In “Trash Collecting Entrepreneur Squashed In San Francisco” he cites one of his respondents, known simply as Michael, who relates a story about trash collection. One of the customers of the local trash collection service–a contractor referred to as Joe–got fed up with paying $37 per trash can, per week, for garbage removal. He and his neighbor began to take their own trash for disposal at a local dump, using “Joe’s” truck. Shortly, other neighbors joined their informal garbage disposal network, opting to pay the contractor $10 a week for more service than they were getting from the city union. Soon, after their little business had begun to unexpectedly
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