Archive for October, 2009
Next Wave of Health-Care Sit-Ins
The Mobilization for Health Care for All had its latest big wave of sit-ins for single-payer on Wednesday (and this wave is ongoing). Here’s their report: Yesterday [Oct. 28th], the next wave of the Mobilization for Health Care for All began with great success. See below for a list of media coverage of the actions. ...Read more.
Steelworkers Form Collaboration with Mondragon
A very interesting collaboration–hat-tip to Mary Hoyer. Steelworkers Form Collaboration with MONDRAGON, theWorld’s Largest Worker-Owned Cooperative Pittsburgh (Oct. 27, 2009)—The United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. today announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing MONDRAGON cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada. The USW and MONDRAGON will work to ...Read more.
The Yes Men and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Some of us are going to the Yes Men’s new movie, The Yes Men Change the World, tomorrow night. The Yes Men themselves will be there, as will our pal Marilyn Frankenstein, radical math professor, who wrote a study guide for the movie. You can watch the official trailer for the movie here. If you ...Read more.
Inequality Helps All
Goldman Sachs’s Griffiths Says Inequality Helps All By Caroline Binham | October 21, 2009 | Bloomberg A Goldman Sachs International adviser defended compensation in the finance industry as his company plans a near-record year for pay, saying the spending will help boost the economy. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve ...Read more.
Pensions: The Next Casualty of Wall Street
From Mark Brenner at Labor Notes: Pensions: The Next Casualty of Wall Street By Mark Brenner Nobody wants to admit it, but the next casualty of the Wall Street meltdown will probably be your golden years. For years corporations have been trying to choke the life out of traditional pensions, working hard to get out ...Read more.
Pay Czar's Ruling on Compensation
The Wall Street Journal, and (scroll down) Naked Capitalism, on compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg’s ruling on executive pay at seven bailed-out financial firms: Pay Czar to Slash Compensation at Seven Firms By DEBORAH SOLOMON and DAN FITZPATRICK | Tuesday, October 22 2009 The U.S. pay czar will cut in half the average compensation for 175 ...Read more.
Civil Rights Movement for the Middle Class
A guest post on Naked Capitalism. Hat-tip to Ben C. A New Civil Rights Movement is Afoot for the Middle Class By John Bougearel, Director of Futures and Equity Research at Structural Logic.Tuesday, October 21 2009 The core of America is the middle class. And Harvard Law Professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel ...Read more.
Cashing in the War Dividend (Jo Comerford)
TomDispatch has a new piece by Jo Comerford, director of the National Priorities Project. See below for Tom’s introduction to the piece. Comerford also appears in one part of a six-part video series from Brave New Films, Rethink Afghanistan. Part Three, which features Comerford and also Linda Bilmes (who co-wrote The Three Trillion Dollar War ...Read more.
Open Letter on Military Offensive in Central India
We encourage readers of D&S and the D&S blog to consider signing the following open letter. Hat-tip to our friend Taki. —cs Sanhati (www.sanhati.com), a collective of activists/academics who have been working in solidarity with peoples’ movements in India by providing information and analysis, took the initiative to bring together voices from around the world ...Read more.
Homeownership Not All It's Cracked Up to Be?
An economist at the Wharton School just released a study looking at the ancillary individual and community benefits that supposedly come with homeownership: greater happiness, more civic participation, etc. etc. Her research basically finds no support for these benefits. Here’s a brief excerpt: An interesting portrait of homeowners emerges from my analysis. While homeowners report ...Read more.
