Month May 2010

Direct action. Utah Philips

He speaks of the Wobblies and how they organized mining camps in the West. They Wobblies once marched on a lumber camp intending to unionize it. The local sheriff backed by a band of goons, blocked their way. The Wobblies…

Wyoming Meth Project launches new campaign

We are pleased to announce that the Wyoming Meth Project launched its latest public service messaging campaign today. The research-based campaign includes a new series of television, radio, online, and outdoor ads that show the devastating impact Meth can have…

Robot avatar lets you attend meetings remotely

You can scoot the little guy around and interact with others too. Perhaps one day conferences will be entirely populated by robots with participants sitting home in their jammies. Well, what’s more likely given our workaholic culture, is you’ll be…

Massive kickbacks in muni bonds. More bankster slime

Bloomberg has a superb investigative reporting piece on the apparent rampant criminal behavior of investment banks and advisers in Guaranteed Investment Contracts in the municipal bond market – something which cost the public billions. “The whole investment process was rigged…