Sure am glad the relevant agencies declared West Virginia water safe now after the Freedom Industries chemical spill: “What we are seeing when we talk to our partners in hospital systems are people with skin and eye irritation, rashes, nausea, upset stomach and diarrhea,” Rahul...
Author: Erik Loomis
On the night of January 15, 1915, the IWW writer and propagandist Ralph Chaplin wrote the song "Solidarity Forever." The song is emblematic of Wobbly culture. If there's one thing.
Back when I had my own blog, I put up a historical image of the day. It was really just for me to slowly build a bank of images for.
John Boehner gives his official approval to a regulatory regime that allows companies to cut off the water supply for 300,000 people. More on the lax regulations of West Virginia that lead to worker deaths, pollution, and toxicity. In other words, freedom.
Today in the annals of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, we have the case of Robert Pastor. Pastor, who died the other day, was something of a wunderkind in the.
On January 14, 1888, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, 2000-1887 was published. One of the two most influential books in American labor history (with The Jungle as the other), Bellamy's treatise.
The great jazz trumpeter has passed, way too young. I saw him play with Other Dimensions in Music (also featuring William Parker, Rashid Bakr, and Daniel Carter) in Atlanta in 1999. Here's a piece from the band in 2009.
Wisconsin Republican Joel Kleefisch does the bidding of his masters: A set of documents unearthed Saturday by the Wisconsin State Journal shows [Republican donor Michael Eisenga] and his lawyer, William.
At least one Canadian is making sense about the nation's horrifically bad energy and environmental policies: Neil Young kicked off his four-date “Honour the Treaties” tour of Canada on Sunday.
On January 13, 1874, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers met in Tompkins Square Park to protest their unemployment and poverty. There, the police would beat them in the first large-scale state crackdown of the American white poor in the nation's history. The Panic of 1873...
Some of us like doughnuts on Sunday mornings. Others like the new doughnut shaped skyscraper in Guangzhou.
Two huge losses of civil rights movement legends this week. First Amiri Baraka died. Then Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro 4 that sparked the student wing of the civil.