The Missile Is Not Invented That Can Kill An Ideal

Check Working Life for my new blog posts

2008-01-29T03:01:00.000-08:00

These days I'm too busy working, organizing, and trying to find time to play guitar. So I haven't had too much time the past few years to blog. But I have been following the primary election closely and I'm strongly rooting for John Edwards. Visit my page at Tasini's Working Life blog for my recent political blog entries.

2 other activist/organizer blogs I would recommend are Sindicalista (read the post "Fetishism of the word vs. actually organizing the people") and John Cronan Jr.

Depleted Uranium Is a War Crime

2007-09-07T03:13:00.000-07:00

Afghan vet Perry O'Brien explains danger of depleted uranium.

Drop the Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Learn How to Organize

2007-09-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

Mike Tidwell is right on the money with this piece titled "Consider Using the N-Word Less: Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate."

Get ready for October 21-23 for actions called for by No War No Warming.

Slavery in Chinese Brick Factories

2007-06-23T10:14:00.000-07:00

NY Times

Israeli "Defense" Contractors Making a Killing

2007-06-23T09:55:00.001-07:00

Naomi Klein

Democrats Cave In to War Machine

2007-05-25T07:24:00.000-07:00

This is ridiculous. Rally your friends, neighbors, and coworkers together. It is our responsibility as Americans to end this war being waged by our government with our tax dollars.

Deregulate Deregulate Deregulate

2007-05-21T18:28:00.000-07:00

These right wingers in government don't believe in regulating industry, even when industry is calling for it and it's the safety of our food at stake.
-Paul Krugman

Our Lawless, Wiretapping President

2007-05-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

video of Ashcroft's former Deputy Attorney General's testimony
-truthout

work until we die serving someone else's greed

2007-05-19T11:56:00.001-07:00

retire at 65 (if you can afford it). die ten years later, twenty if you're a Japanese woman.

Ashamed of Her Wal-mart Past

2007-05-19T11:51:00.001-07:00

Clinton served on the Wal-Mart board of directors from 1988-1992 while her husband was governor of Arkansas. She advocated environmentally friendlier practices and moving more women into management. She also stayed silent on the company's vicious anti-union practices. None of this is advertised by her presidential campaign.
-NY Times

Strike! Shut Down The War Machine

2007-05-19T11:49:00.000-07:00

Contractor Deaths Soar in Iraq
-NY Times

Time for a work stoppage?

Down With Clinton

2007-05-18T10:42:00.001-07:00

She'll sell us out to the corporations.
-Nation

SEIU and Young People

2007-05-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

They started a new organization called Qvisory that will help young workers with things like financial planning, credit card debt, and health insurance.
-NY Times

Starbucks Union Celebrates 3rd Anniversary

2007-05-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

A new store in Chicago goes public and another one in Michigan files a legal complaint regarding union busting.
-Liza Featherstone

Sicko

2007-05-18T08:50:00.001-07:00

Michael Moore's movie about the dysfunctional American healthcare system comes out soon.
-Michael Moore

Free Bumper Sticker

2007-05-18T08:48:00.001-07:00

"Support the troops. End the war." courtesy of John Edwards.

Support Your Canadian Brothers and Sisters

2007-05-18T08:46:00.001-07:00

Click Here. My friend worked at this distribution center for several months where they weren't prepared for an "American style" unionbusting campaign.

Clinton Campaign Manager Busts Unions

2007-05-16T06:57:00.000-07:00

read all about it

Unions To Unseat Corporate "Democrats"

2007-05-07T22:13:00.000-07:00

The Nation

Working in China: 14hrs a day, 7 days a week

2007-05-07T22:10:00.000-07:00

Independent/UK

Bush's OSHA Fails to Protect Popcorn Workers

2007-05-07T22:07:00.000-07:00

Washington Post

Fortune Fears John Edwards

2007-05-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

"John Edwards: Union Man," Fortune:

should Edwards overcome stiff odds and win the presidency, a new and more hostile day is sure to dawn for Washington's business interests, particularly if Democrats retain control of Congress. Legislation to make union organizing easier would readily pass (already it passed the House this year), as well as other measures to boost the bargaining leverage of organized labor. Universal health care, mostly resisted by the private sector, would top his agenda.

The hyper-cautious Hillary Clinton learned the dangers of a frontal assault on business interests with the disastrous reception to her 1993 health-care plan. Barack Obama hails from the party's liberal-left wing, but prizes consensus. For President Edwards, though, the grievances of working Americans would land squarely at the door of corporate America.

To Fight Sprawl Let DC Grow!

2007-05-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

Washington Post article about the restrictive building height limits in the city:

"D.C. leaders should consider lifting the limit around Metro stations that serve commuters from across the region, such as Dupont Circle, Union Station, Metro Center, the Navy Yard and, yes, Friendship Heights."

Common sense tells us that high density zoning centered around mass transit hubs (e.g. Metro stops) is the only way to fight suburban and exurban sprawl. If you can't build up, you have to build out.

Circuit City: "I've Made A Huge Mistake"

2007-05-02T11:28:00.000-07:00

Circuit City, citing poor sales of large screen televisions, expects to post a loss at the end of this first quarter. Financial analysts blame the firing of the company's 3,400 most experienced workers, 60% of whom had sales positions. Wobblies protest.
-Washington Post, Times Union

DC Hotel Workers Rising

2007-05-02T03:50:00.000-07:00

Youtube clip of Bruce Raynor's speech at a UNITE HERE rally