Day June 12, 2005

L.A. hotel workers win big

LA mayor elect Villaraigosa helped broker an agreement between the hotel unions and hotels. The workers got about everything they asked for!  The proposed contract would expire Nov. 30, 2006, a key victory for union leaders who have insisted that their pact…

West sees no evil as Burma suffers on

Burma has perhaps the most thuggish, repressive government on the planet. Dissidents are routinely raped, tortured, and imprisoned. Secret police and informants are everywhere. Even more scandalous is how little fuss is made by the G7, the EU and the…

So why didn’t Blair say something?

Memo: U.S. lacked full postwar Iraq plan.  A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what…

Mobile wireless podcasting networks

From Smart Mobs comes news of  a way cool new use of podcasting and mobile radio;,homegrown mobile networks that transmit and receive from any node. If you’re stuck in a traffic jam, just chill out and surf the mobile nets around…