Archive for 2007
IBEW Local 103 Business Manager wins Cushing Award
Mike Monahan of Local 103 of the IBEW recently won a Cushing-Gavin Award, given by the Labor Guild of the Archidiocese of Boston to honor “outstanding work in the labor relations field.” We interviewed Mike for our recent article on collaboration between the IBEW and the Dropkick Murphys. The article in the Boston Globe profiling ...Read more.
Our Community in the Streets!
Check out this exhibit of photographs by David Bacon, photographer, journalist, and frequent D&S contributor. Our Community in the Streets!Photographs by David Bacon Celebrating International Migrants Day and the solidarity of working people in our community (December 7, 2007 – January 31, 2008) Asian Resource Gallery310 Eighth St.Oakland, CA 94607(Close to the 12th Street and ...Read more.
Take action to save NOLA public housing
This is from Facing South (slogan: “Blogging for a Progressive South”), the excellent blog of the excellentInstitute for Southern Studies. Tuesday, December 04, 2007 Next Monday, Dec. 10, is International Human Rights Day. It’s also the day when activists in New Orleans are calling for actions opposing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...Read more.
March On Wall Street
We received word of this upcoming action in New York City from Danny Schechter, director of the film “In Debt We Trust”. IT IS TIME TO ACT ON THE CREDIT CRISIS….. Danny Schechter, here. As the director of the film In Debt We Trust, I expose shady sub prime loan practices and report that Wall ...Read more.
Feminism and Consumerism
What could be better than smart talk, swell people, and sweet food? On Tuesday, December 11, join the Center for New Words at 7 Temple Street in Cambridge for their Feminism and Dessert event to discuss American consumerism in the shadow of holiday shopping. The event’s title is “Not Buying It: American Consumerism.” The featured ...Read more.
Payday Loans, Tongue out of Cheek
In response to my post about the satirical Predatory Lending Association website, yesterday an anonymous commenter wrote the following: This site you are trying to get people to take notice of is a fake! The fact that you are promoting a fake site that is complete satire makes you as bad as the scum that ...Read more.
Naomi Klein at Firedoglake
The discussion appears to be over, but earlier today Naomi Klein was fielding questions about her new book at the weekly Firedoglake book salon. What is the shock doctrine? Klein explains: I started researching the free market’s dependence on the power of shock four years ago, during the early days of the occupation of Iraq. ...Read more.
In Mississippi, Poor Lag in Hurricane Aid
This is in today’s New York Times: By LESLIE EATONPublished: November 16, 2007 GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 14 — Like the other Gulf Coast states battered by Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was required by Congress to spend half of its billions in federal grant money to help low-income citizens trying to recover from the storm. But so ...Read more.
Support Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 S. 1668
We received this from Amelie Ratliff of Mass Action for the Gulf Coast: Finally, there’s a bill in Congress that would help some of the hardest hit Katrina survivors come back home. Unfortunately, it is about to die because some members of the Senate think it’s fine for certain New Orleanians— specifically those who are ...Read more.
Online Resource of the Day
Dollars & Sense readers and supporters will find the PLA website most informative. The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help predatory lenders extract maximum profit from the working poor and retired poor with payday loans. The predatory lending industry: In the last 10 years, payday loan stores have gone from being illegal to outnumbering Starbucks™ ...Read more.
