Working Life

I still believe that we have the best environment we’ve had in a very long time on the issue of trade. But, we’ve got to thank Rep. Gregory Meeks, Democrat from New York, for reminding us that we have to remain vigilant and on the case. Meeks, you see, is one of the dwindling number […]

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    So, nice to be back home and I hope to get a better report out on the Edwards poverty tour. But, since it will take a little time to look at my video results, here’s something for now: Tom Friedman has written a lot of dumb things in the past. It’s worth separating the […]

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I’m on the road with the poverty tour that John Edwards is doing through several states in a few days (yours truly is only going as far as Memphis), an opportunity to see a wide variety of workers struggling to make it. I’m going to try to write something more in depth later or tomorrow. […]

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    Wouldn’t it be nice if you could decide how much of your income you pay to the government–and, then, decide how much you’d like to get back? If you could start a little business advising people on how to pull off that little stunt, you’d be a rich man.     Welcome to the world […]

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    This kind of slipped under the radar screen–but it’s a small sign that makes me skeptical that the Employee Free Choice Act will ever pass. In a small brief, The New York Times reported an Associated Press story that said: Democratic leaders in Congress said they had dropped their demand for union bargaining rights […]

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This is a sobering and shocking number: just shy of 1,000,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion began. This estimate was just published by Just Foreign Policy. While most of the focus in this country is on the U.S. casualties–every single one of them unnecessary and tragic–it’s important that we remember the devastation […]

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    You can’t hardly turn on the boob tube or read a newspaper or look at a mainstream website without hearing the clamor about the benefits of “globalization” and “increased trade” blah, blah, blah…if you try to contest that nonsense, you’re just a dumb protectionist (trust me, I have the scars to show it…oh, sorry, […]

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    As I said the other day, though the environment is the best it has been in a long time for those of us who are advocating for a saner, fairer trade policy, no one should think that so-called “free trade” is off the table. Now, Japan may be stepping up to the trough, according […]

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I was just going to spend a nice Sunday just reading, and not blogging and even avoiding the computer but leave it to The New York Times to mess all that up. As I flipped the page, tucked neatly in the lower part of the next page was an article that warned all those unsuspecting […]

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   If you are among the enlightened group of many millions of people who have spoken up (either in elections or real organizing) for a world where people can expect a decent standard of living and trade takes place under conditions that values communities first, you can pat yourself on the back for sending the […]

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