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Big Big Haywood leads 1912 Lowell Strike. Credit: Library of Congress Much of what we take for granted in the workplace is the result of ferocious labor vs. management battles from about 1880 to 1940. This includes the 40 hour work week, safety regulations, health plans for employees, and laws against child labor. None [...] Financial Times columnist Edward Luce says America is on the decline internationally and domestically and we too often act like spoiled brats. He has written a book about it, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent. His basic thesis is that the United Sates is losing its pragmatism and that this [...] Saturday March 17th marked the six month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. It was a beautiful and joyous day despite a dozen or more arrests for crimes like laying down and dancing. Despite the heavy police presence spirits were. That evening we had a great General Assembly with hundreds present, using two waves of the [...] Local “newspapers” The Bend Bulletin and The Portland Oregonian are censoring this week’s Doonesbury cartoon strip about Texas’ (and other’s) state enforced rape pre-abortion ultrasound laws. And yawl’ thought we were just a bunch of mamby-pamby liberals around here. Here’s what’s in the strips (read them online here): Monday: Young woman arrives for her pre-termination sonogram, is told to take a seat [...] The Magnifying Glass, ca 1775. Toriyama Sekien, Japanese (Metropolitan Museum) ProPublica has a couple of useful ways of watching where Super Pac money is coming from and where it’s going. To find out who the top 10 donors in each of the 12 largest PACs are, look here. For where (and how) that money is [...] OWS Open Space Commons I finally made it to my first Open Space event. What a breath of fresh air. In recent weeks we have reduced the number of decision-making meetings and opened up space for different types of meetings/events, like Open Spaces where we foster dialogue rather than focus on making any decisions. [...] Just because you are a “church” doesn’t mean you are exempt of the law: In fact, a century of American jurisprudence – including Antonin Scalia himself – prove that you can, and should [obey the law]. Scalia, himself a devout and very conservative Catholic, wrote in the majority decision: “We have never held that an [...] The recent scandals in Washington and the passage of legislation to ban congressional “insider” stock trading caused me to unearth an old memo that I’d sent to federal authorities some time ago, because it seemed quite plausible that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge might very well have had advance knowledge of impending stock [...] UBS tried to deep six documents of holocaust victims’ bank accounts, so why did Romney park his money there? Am I the only person in the world that this has occurred to? Mitt Romney had a $3 million dollar account in UBS (United or Union Bank of Switzerland). Why would he leave his money [...] |  | ||||
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