Archive for December, 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.
