Working Life

Not much more can be said about Katrina–the human disaster, the Administration’s complicity in the disaster by cutting funds for precisely the kind of preparation that might have saved New Orleans and the insufficient response by the feds once the hurricane was hurtling towards the area (can’t interrupt the president’s vacation now, can we?). I […]

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For some time, I’ve known about the secret film about Wal-Mart that the video warrior Robert Greenwald is putting together. He asked that people keep it under wraps so that he could try to rustle up some Wal-Mart workers to talk on camera before the company disappeared them…okay, Wal-Mart hasn’t, as far I know, gone […]

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Every so often, usually over the weekend, “Flotsam and Jetsam” will be a place to knock off various items that have collected over time that didn’t warrant an individual post or got rolled over for more urgent matters. The Rich Are Really Like Us!!! At least so said a May 5th article in the Wall […]

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As I prepare to leave Israel Monday (so this space may have a one-day break for the long flight home), can’t help but relate last night’s/early morning today’s episode. Headed back to my place here at 11:45 p.m. to run right into a massive shutdown of the entire highway system of the central part of […]

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Yesterday afternoon, I met with about a dozen Arab Israeli journalists in Nazareth to get a feel for what they face as part of an effort to create a more solid union presence in the area for all journalists. First, a definition: these journalists are Israeli citizens and do not, as a rule, work in […]

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Okay, so, I’m off on the other side of the world, almost…Middle East. Just arrived after a 10-hour flight so a little bleary. Guess what? No Wal-Marts here!!! So, my posts next few days may be short until the whirlwind calms down. Though I do see a NYTimes piece predicting a global slowdown in the […]

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Well, baseball is on my mind today, as I pack up to journey south for spring training (which may put a crimp in my minds attention to the blog Beast). I don’t know whether Mark Mcwire did the juice but at least he did the stand up thing, refusing to pull an Elia Kazan and […]

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There is no crisis in Social Security but the president is doing everything possible to create a financial catastrophe to gin one up. This whole game reminds me of the hustlers in Times Square playing the Three Card Monte or find the pea under the cup (actually, because Times Square now resembles a mall that […]

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Just before heading out to a D.C. meeting on organizing professional workers (I’ll post some thoughts about that also), I can’t help but digress from my usual topics to take note of a laugher in The New York Times. In Sunday’s Week In Review, David Kirkpatrick wrote a story about a spit at the neocons […]

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So, here’s the dishonor roll of the pathetic 18 Democrats who voted for the bankruptcy bill. No one should give a dime to these DINOs (Democrats In Name Only). Geez, even Joe “Can I Hug You George” Lieberman voted against it: Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Byrd (D-WV) Carper (D-DE) Conrad (D-ND) […]

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