Andymatic

Category: 10. Labor Power is Suppressed

  • 81% Support Higher Taxes for Rich, 68% Support Eliminating Bush Tax Cuts, 74% Support Cutting Oil Subsidies, 77% Support Public Unions Bargaining

    YouTube – Wisconsin Republicans Getting Desperate. Is the End in Sight? (Mar 2, 2011 – msnbc)

  • Gov Walker's Bill Includes Privatizing Everything and Screwing the Poor

    Krugman takes a closer look: What’s happening in Wisconsin is, instead, a power grab — an attempt to exploit the fiscal crisis to destroy the last major counterweight to the political power of corporations and the wealthy. … For example, the bill includes language that would allow officials appointed by the governor to make sweeping cuts […]

  • 2007 Obama on Collective Bargaining

    Back in 2007: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that […]

  • American Shame

    Comparing unemployment, income inequality, democracy, food supply, life expectancy, prison population and student performance. New York Times

  • Rehabbing Robber Barons

    Also from Alternet: The overarching task of the conservative historian is to rehabilitate the image of capitalism, even at its most red-toothed and -clawed. Not a hard job, as both our history and culture ceaselessly celebrate the innovative dynamism of American business. But one of the rare areas in which history teachers are allowed to […]

  • Maine GOP Forced To Apologize After Convention-Goers Vandalize An Eighth-Grade Classroom

    So friggging stupid: For seven years, Clifford has had “a collage-type poster depicting the history of the U.S. labor movement” on his classroom door. He uses it “to teach his students how to incorporate collages into their annual project on Norman Rockwell’s historic ‘Four Freedoms’ illustrations.” When Clifford returned to his classroom on Monday, after […]

  • Japan Faces Its Poverty Problem

    From NYT: After years of economic stagnation and widening income disparities, this once proudly egalitarian nation is belatedly waking up to the fact that it has a large and growing number of poor people. The Labor Ministry’s disclosure in October that almost one in six Japanese, or 20 million people, lived in poverty in 2007 […]

  • The Middle-Class, 1950s and Socialism

    A discussion on Metafilter involved the loss of middle class standard of living for so many in the US. A commenter remarked: you used to be able to raise a family with a good standard of living on a single working class wage in America and another commenter responded: For one fleeting period of time […]

  • Orwell Reads the Finale of 1984

    Bouncing around YouTube on a Friday night:

  • The Other Martin Luther King, Jr

    Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]