In These Times

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• • 17 Dec 09
  • 11:37 am

  Jobs with Justice is holding its 10th annual scrooge of the year competition. There's a great piece on it at the AFL blog with background on the candidates, which include: The Chamber of Commerce, Hyatt Hotels, Publix Supermakets, Student Loan providers, and the whole lot of Wall Street. Check out the background and don't forget to vote! http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/12/14/cast-your-vote-for-scrooge-of-the-year/

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• • 02 Dec 09
  • 5:05 pm

  memo to progressives: "Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. …

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• • 30 Nov 09
  • 2:07 pm

  very thought-provoking. In fact, its inspired me to write a piece that I'll try to circulate if I do get around to it. its on the "mea culpa" meme that I'm starting to see emerge from older activists. as a younger person who isnt waiting around for things to get better, I appreciate where you land, but I do have some questions and thoughts on some of the other substance in your piece. __________________________________________________ "You want the news to be as brief and fast as Twitter; you would like classes to move along in some more amusing format like animé. You …

  Posted to Empathy, Not Apathy

• • 02 Dec 09
  • 1:29 pm

  Claire, I completely understand what you mean. the lack of will by organizations (and not necessarily referring to the ones you listed) on the left to acknowledge the role of neoliberalism and the uglyness of what we're really up against (hint: its more than one particular political party or one particular issue) is truly frustrating. I encourage you to come to the next US Social Forum in June. Its a space where 100's of organizations are starting to collaborate on building that better world from within the U.S. www.ussf2010.org the first one in atlanta was amazing (over 13k ppl),and out of …

  Posted to Empathy, Not Apathy

• • 17 Nov 09
  • 11:09 am

  Brother Greg, from my perspective (son of immigrant working class family), young people and immigrant /black workers are not in competition, hell we are all broke - parents and children alike. I would warn against any mentality that says we leave "them" out of it (whether the them be "hipsters", immigrants, white people, or some other "them" that we have grudges against, even if those grudges have some real life experience attached to them) because one of the most important thing we can do to create working class consciousness and some oxygen for labor is to create a tent that believes …

  Posted to Unions Must Attract the Young and Hip—or Become Obsolete