Dear Justice 22: Congratulations on a very well-written letter and sharp analysis. I really hope that you use your talents through letters to the editor and on progressive local blogs. You have a strong writing gift that we need on our side. I've had my say in my blog, and you have added to it with great wit and insight. I really want to encourage you to use your writing skill as often as possible. Please stay in touch. Best, Roger.
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Roger Bybee
Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and progressive publicity consultant whose work has appeared in numerous national publications and websites, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, Yes!, The Progressive, Multinational Monitor, The American Prospect and Foreign Policy in Focus. Bybee edited The Racine Labor weekly newspaper for 14 years in his hometown of Racine, Wis., where his grandfathers and father were socialist and labor activists. His website can be found here, and his e-mail address is winterbybee@gmail.com.
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Dear friends: Thanskf for writing. Let me make a couple quick comments: 1) RE: Justice 22: I did not mean in any way to compare unions with the credit industry. Unions are essentially motivated by empowering working people; the credit industry thrives on exploiting workers and the poor. To the extent I have been addressing the labor movement, it has always been to rely more on its rank and file members, build a wide circle of public support, remain independent of the Democratic Party while achieving what can be obtained through participation, and perhaps most controversially, to stop playing by the …
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Dear Jamni: On the one hand, we can't allow the much more massive and effective Right Wing Message Machine make the public forget the failure of eight-years of brass-knuckleed capitalism has done. But I agree, at this moment, we know what we can count on from the Republicans and we don't quite how feeble most Democrats will fight for us and to what extent they will undermine us (excepting Russ Feingold, BarbaraBoxer, Tammy Baldwin. Anthony Wender, Peter DeFazio, Gwen Moore, Alan Graysonand of course Bernie Sanders) and a few others). Right now, there are now easy strategic answers. People are growing …
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Dear Christine: First, you are not alone! Remember, the economic system has failed, not you! There are more than 15 milion totally unemployed, and another 10 million forced down to part-time status. While unemployed people tend to get isolated (I have been there several times for long periods) especially as our self-esteem slips and our life-force is sapped (check out the great article by Don Peck of The Atlantic on line), it was unemployed people getting together raising hell that forded the federal government to increase relief to the states and finally, to start the unemployment insurance system. The International Association …
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Dear Christine:Great! I appreciate it. Be sure to check out some of my past posts and today's excellent piece by Michelle Chen on the effects of unemployment on your health. Best, Roger.
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