Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Monday, October 06, 2014

Additional cinema website coming

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I've been thinking of doing this for a long time and now that time has come: a separate blog that will contain only observations and re...
Friday, October 07, 2011

Some visits to Zuccotti Park (the Wall Street occupation)

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New York City -- Me and my girlfriend paid a couple of visits to the Wall Street occupation over the last couple of weeks (on September 30th...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Make yourself...

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...heard, not herd.
Sunday, February 27, 2011

I told you so Part I : The American groundswell is here

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I f the events in Madison, Wisconsin, still unfolding as I write this, say anything, it's that you love being wrong. For years now, I...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Fox News brings America a weekend of Coolidge-o'-rama

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Roger Aislesland --If you want your children to gain an accurate picture of American history from life, keep them as far away from Texas and...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Why did they know, and you did not?

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I 've written about my grandparents on here several times and what wonderful, homespun Populists they were, and not the wacky right wi...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Dude: Don't go to Chicago tomorrow, dude.

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Chicago, Illinois --You know, once the home to my father until his family wouldn't pay protection money to "the Outfit" (Capon...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Horror: E!'s "Hot Girls in Scary Places" and the "Ohmigod" factor

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tv --I don't know whether this show is the worst/best thing on television now, or if it's just total crap. Are they kidding? Surely...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

"Twilight time" at Ford, with a dose of hope and wisdom

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So I took my grandfather's old--old?!--2000 van cruiser to the dealer down the road for a recall fix (you don't want to know, but i...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Happy Holidays! Have hope!

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Folks, I'm not going to lie: it's not going to be a better year in 2009. Things are going to get much, much worse. But there is a li...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Obama's endorsement of the Republic Windows and Doors sit-down is historic

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Chicago, Illinois --Just as FDR finally relented in 1935 and backed the right of the UAW, the CIO and other national unions to legally organ...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

On the Chicago sit down occupation at Republic Windows and Doors

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Chicago, Illinois --I'm sorry, but I hate this city, it sucks. But it's going to suck a lot worse there if more working-class Americ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

On the partial nationalization of the American financial system, the rebounding of the DOW, and the return of the nebbish word "bolster"

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WWW --The media's take on the past two-day rallying of stocks on Wall Street is presumptuous and smacking of an underlying desperation: ...