Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to […]
Also filed in breaking news, civil liberties, class and poverty, human rights, immigrants, politics, race and racism
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Tagged , argentina, coca cola, columbia, domestic spying, fbi, ford, haliburton, infragard, klan, martial law
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Since my recent post on domestic surveillance and J. Edgar Hoover’s secret plan for mass detentions of suspected “subversives,” I’ve come across a number of blog posts that make interesting supplements to the sources I originally assembled. I’m posting excerpts from two historically focused pieces here and will follow up soon with another post that […]
Also filed in Weblogs, civil liberties, disarmament
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Tagged blacklists, communism, fbi, film, huac, organized crime, privacy, surveillance, unions
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Maybe I’m being grumpy, but this Labor Day blog post by Seth Godin (via Matt) really rubbed me the wrong way.
Your great-grandfather knew what it meant to work hard. He hauled hay all day long, making sure that the cows got fed. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes about a worker who ruptured his […]
I started to post Pete Seeger’s rendition of Malvina Reynolds’ “Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter,” as a tribute to the twelve miners who died after the explosion that trapped them in the Sago Mine on Monday. But I stopped myself because I thought that it might be a stretch to apply the words of the […]
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Last month, I posted about Wade Rathke’s self-seving, racist attack on Curtis Muhammad, Community Labor United, and the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund. Though I posted Open Letter to the Labor Movement, an important response from a group of activists, I never got around to the further commentary I had promised. In the meantime, one […]
(Via MR Zine.)
Brothers and Sisters,
The crisis for the working class (whether employed or not, waged or not) continues to grow. Even as the nation, and especially the poor and Black working class of the Gulf states and New Orleans in particular, tries to pick up the pieces after Katrina’s (and Rita’s) devastation, the assault by […]
Wade Rathke is a seasoned organizer who helped found ACORN and SEIU Local 100 in the 1970s. He has remained strongly active in both groups and in a number of others. It is therefore all the more disturbing to see Rathke, a key player in building an organization that “pioneered multi- racial and multi-issue organizing,” […]
Thursday, September 22, 2005
The website is up!
http://communitylaborunited.net
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
NEWS NEWS NEWS
WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE
WHEN: 2:30PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 2005
WHERE: 927 PALMYRA, JACKSON, MS
People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Reconstruction Oversight Committee and Misssssippi Emergency Relief Committee
Welcome IFCO/Pastors For Peace Caravan With Aid Donation
16 September 2005, Jackson, Mississippi: Eighteen days after the worst storm in U.S. history ravaged the Gulf Coast, displacing hundreds of thousands of […]
Monday, September 19, 2005
The last three posts, which were announcements from The People’s Hurricane Fund / Community Labor United, came via Becky Belcore, who also said:
Hi Everyone,
First, we would like to thank everyone for your amazing work and energy around this project. Since we put out the first call for action a few weeks ago, we have been […]
Monday, September 19, 2005
15 September, 2005Jackson, Mississippi
In the wake of the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, intensified by catastrophic, criminal government neglect and racist repression, Community Labor United — a New Orleans based coalition dedicated to creating spaces for grassroots organizations to engage in dialogue, strategic planning and build collective work — has […]
Monday, September 19, 2005
The U.S. government, which has failed to rescue victims of Hurricane Katrina and provide adequately for many survivors, has recently announced that it will spend more than $50 billion to reconstruct New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
On Saturday September 8, a group of New Orleans activists and supporters from around the country met in […]
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Counterpunch
Weekend Edition
September 9 / 11, 2005
What is to be Done?
The American Left and the Battle of New Orleans
By STEVEN SHERMAN
While most of the predominantly white peace movement has been energetically preparing for an anti-war march on September 24, a massive natural’ disaster has unfolded in New Orleans and the Gulf Region. The horrible spectacle of […]
Sixty years ago today the US dropped the nuclear bomb called Little Boy over the central part of Hiroshima, killing at least 66,000 people.
In honor of this year’s Hiroshima Day, I am posting this excerpt from my father’s Political Autobiography.
By now the McCarthy period was upon us. The CIO was split and the traditional antagonisms […]
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