We all support professional athletes wearing shirts protesting the horrors of police violence against people of color. But what happens when that protest runs up against a horror equally as disturbing? As in, where were those shirts made? Last week, NBA stars LeBron James, Kobe...
Month: December 2014
Seems unlikely that the meaningless toothless climate reductions agreed to in Lima will mitigate the carbon emissions it took to get everyone to Peru to make the deal.
Hey, if anyone can get a screen grab of the "Zales" pop-up that irregularly marches across our page, I'd deeply appreciate. Please send to the blog e-mail address on the.
The Los Angeles Times has another installment in its outstanding series of labor exploitation on the Mexican vegetable farms that supply U.S. markets. This piece is on the rampant use of child labor that picks your vegetables. Once again, American corporations openly seek these arrangements...
On the development of mythology: Consider this: When Colbert first launched his new show as a spinoff from “The Daily Show” our nation was awash in the culture of fear.
Prison labor not only takes jobs away from non-prisoners who earn wages, but it is a corrupt system that does not save the state money, as the Seattle Times reports..
I took this at my local CVS in Providence. Next, Yom Kippur brought to you by my new cosmetics brand, Tsarist Russia! Note that this is probably the most Jewish neighborhood in all Rhode Island. I'd think someone would have said something about this before,...
It's hard to argue against Harold Meyerson's point that it is a lot easier to win higher wages for 100,000 people than to unionize 4000. Or unionize 20. The barriers.
Imagine if this was the standard for regulating production rather than the exception that took a decade of hard struggle to win: Growers in the Fair Food Program are prohibited.
Kindly old Condi Rice: Condoleezza Rice gave permission for the CIA to use waterboarding techniques on the alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah as early as July 2002, the first known official approval for the technique, according to a report released by the Senate intelligence committee...
On the latest episode of Foreign Entanglements, Kelsey Atherton and I jabber about killer robots, Tolkien, and Star Wars:
For those interested in environmentalism, the dominant narrative of the state of the forests is one of decline and collapse in the face of industrial development. While wilderness protection was.