An Open Letter - Gilded Mouthpieces for Big Business Shill Class Warfare Agenda for Corporate Sugar Daddies After that blatantly manufactured "statewide" report on municipal health insurance ("The Utility of Trouble, Municipal Health Plans: … [Read more...]
On Petals And Metal, Or, Today And Tomorrow, Street Actions Are Afoot
A young lady visitor on the set of "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" asked W.C.Fields if he liked flowers. Fields replied he was very fond of Four Roses. --Ronald J. Fields, from the book "W.C.Fields By Himself" So here's what's up: … [Read more...]
On Taking It Back, Or, Wisconsin Recalls, Explained
"I will tell you this: Any business where two partners don't trust each other, any business where one party says, 'You need to do X, Y and Z because I told you,' is a business that is not only not run well, it is a business that can never … [Read more...]
On “La Dolce Vita”, Or, The Real Life Of A State Worker
Good morrow to the day so fair; Good morning, Sir, to you: Good morrow to mine own torn hair Bedabbled with the dew --From "The Mad Maid's Song", a selection from "The Hesperides & Noble Numbers", by Robert Herrick So as … [Read more...]
Social Security: If You Can’t Kill The Program, Screw The People
The foot less prompt to seek the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. --From "Thyrsis", by Matthew Arnold So here's the deal, short and sweet: Social Security is amazingly … [Read more...]
from the keyboard to the streets
event of possible interest here: Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition March 4, 2011, 9:30am - All are Welcome! Selma to Cairo to Madison: Are Americans Flexing Their Freedom Muscles? Discussion About Direct Action for Freedom and … [Read more...]
Joanna Weiss, we wish it were so easy to “sign up” union members
In todays Globe, Joanna Weiss has in interesting editorial about public perception of unions. See here: http://www.boston.com/bostongl... She qoutes a recent Pew survey that shows that a majority of the public does not support unions. This … [Read more...]
Defending the American Dream in Wisconsin
Those public servants assembled in Madison, and everyone gathered at our State House, deserve better than this. We must not allow them to be made scapegoats in an agenda to hobble America's labor movement. State governments will … [Read more...]
What can we in Mass. do to show solidarity with Wisconsinites?
Anything big and loud we can do? Is there any sort of rally scheduled? I hope so! … [Read more...]
The Real Charter School Agenda in Boston
This is what Carol Johnson's school closing plan amounts to. The city is already in talks with charter schools to lease the closed school buildings to charter schools. It's about union busting, of course, but it's also something … [Read more...]
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