Working Life

    Like most of you’all, I’m preparing to go off and stuff my face with way too much food, pies and alcohol–maybe the one advantage I have is that I don’t have to do all this in the usual dysfunctional family settings…my good friend Laura Flanders is packing her place with a wild pack of […]

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   So, since I’ve been updating folks on the Writers Guild of America strike against Big Media, a number of people have written me or commented: what can we do to help if we are not WGA members and/or don’t live in Los Angeles or New York City? Other than console you for having to […]

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At least in New York City, there will not be any Writers Guild of America official picketing today (some of us will go over to Broadway and support the striking stagehands). But, there is some stuff to report.   Yesterday, Michael Winship, president of the the Writers Guild of America (east) sent out an e-mail […]

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{attachment id=56 size=small} It was sunny and brisk today on the Writers Guild of America picket line in New York City on the third day of the strike. The pickets have been moving around the city since the strike started on Monday–Day One we rallied outside the NBC (General Electric) studios in Rockefeller Center (just […]

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    Members of the Writers Guild of America have walked out, as of midnight. So, it’s to the picket lines, my friends–where I am headed in about one hour. If you are in New York City, here’s what the Guild sent out yesterday: The Writers Guild will go on strike Monday, November 5th at 12:01 […]

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  Any day now, maybe even tomorrow, there could be a strike by thousands of writers who come up with the words that come out of the mouths of the actors and performers who we watch on the big screen, television, DVDs and, increasingly, the Internet, or listen to on the radio. What isn’t always […]

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The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with George Bush that gives great insight into the disinformation, lies and, charitably, cognitive dissonance that underpins the Administration’s economic policy. "We have lost sight of what it means to be a nation willing to be aggressive in the world, and spread freedom or deal with disease," […]

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    Today brings a perfect example that, really, none of these economic forecasters, pundits or people can tell you what will happen with certain parts of the economy and whether we will have an official "recession." I emphasize OFFICIAL recession because by the standards of whether people are doing better, it’s clear that millions of […]

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   While they are quivering and wavering on the Iraq War, let me suggest that there is another issue Democrats cannot capitulate on: economic fairness. It’s been said, repeatedly, that the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006 because of the anger over the Iraq War. I don’t disagree that the war was, and should […]

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    So, if you’re wondering why some pundits and analysts are starting to worry that consumers may be thinking about pulling back from opening up their wallets, you can take the two obvious reasons–none of which are surprising to anyone with their eye on real people, as opposed to Wall Street hype and free market […]

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