Bernard, I'd really like to read your analysis. When I click on the link, it takes me to a page with the right headline, but no body text.
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Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein, a former InTheseTimes.com political reporter, is a freelance investigative journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, Slate.com, AlterNet.org, The New York Press, The Washington Independent, RH Reality Check and other news outlets.
Beyerstein writes a daily foreign affairs bulletin for the UN Foundation’s UN Dispatch website and covers healthcare for the Media Consortium. She is the winner of a 2009 Project Censored Award. She blogs at Majikthise.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay traveled to Boston to earn a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Tufts University. After graduating from Tufts, Lindsay moved to New York City where she briefly worked in pharmaceutical advertising and started her blog Majikthise.
Majikthise was initially conceived as an amalgam of analytic philosophy and liberal politics. However, the politics gradually eclipsed the philosophy as Lindsay spent more and more of her time chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration. Eventually, Majikthise began supplementing her opinion writing with original reporting.
In 2005, Lindsay traveled to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Later that year, her blog readers funded her live coverage of Tom DeLay’s first court appearance in Austin, Texas on money laundering charges. Other major stories she has covered include the New York Transit Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb senate race in Virginia in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006 Lindsay quit her day job in advertising to pursue journalism full-time. She joined the investigative team at Raw Story as a national correspondent specializing in labor, immigration, and crime issues, and worked as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.
Lindsay lectures regularly on blogging and journalism. In April 2007, she delivered the Richardson Memorial Lecture at the University of Gettysburg on the relationship between objectivity and journalism. She has also spoken to the National Organization for Women, the Center for American Progress, and other groups.
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Stimulus Bucks for Green Job Training
By Lindsay Beyerstein Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis yesterday announced $5.8 million in green capacity building grants through… more
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Your Boss Swears Your Job is Perfectly Safe
By Lindsay Beyerstein We're accustomed to reading statistics from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration about workplace… more
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The Tempification of the American Workforce
By Lindsay Beyerstein The tempification of the American workforce continues apace. While job losses make headlines, we don't… more
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‘Jobless Recovery’ is an Oxymoron
By Lindsay Beyerstein On paper, the worst recession in 70 years came to an end in the third… more
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Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op
By Lindsay Beyerstein Big news from last week largely overlooked by the mainstream media: The United Steelworkers will… more
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Landmark Nurses Union Deal Averts Swine Flu Strike
By Lindsay Beyerstein Late Friday, The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) reached an historic agreement with… more
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Good advice, Frank. Thanks for your comment. Trumka and Gerard seem to think that they can make common cause with some employers on some issues. I think we have to judge these alliances on a case-by-case basis. The best example is the steel industry. No steel mills, no steel workers. In order to have steel mills you need at least two things: 1) Capital investment to build them and 2) a manufacturing/trade policy that makes American steel competitive. At this point, only the U.S. government can provide both of those things, but only if it is subjected to massive pressure. Both …
Posted to DC Dispatch: Progressive Ideas in Air at ‘Making it America’ Meeting
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Correction: associate general counsel for the AFL-CIO and SEIU. Thanks.
Posted to McCain Slaps Hold on Crucial Pro-Labor NLRB Nominee
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Thanks, Donald. They were arrested, booked, and released on their own recog. They haven't been charged with anything yet, though. It's up to the county officials who will review the results of the police investigation. If they decide they want to press charges, they'll issue arrest warrants. Even if the county decides to press charges, they will only be for misdemeanor offenses.
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Bruce, that certainly wasn't my intention. It's pretty dry material and I was trying to make the post more fun to read.
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