Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

New Issue, plus Various Occupy Links

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jan 19, 2012 | Tags: Boston Occupier, climate change, David Graeber, giant puppets, James Hansen, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Jeffrey Sachs, Jo Freeman, John Miller, Katherine Sciacchitano, Keystone XL Pipeline, leaderlessness, Occupy Boston, Occupy Portland, Portland Occupier, structurelessness | No Comments

(Hat-tip to Jenny B. for today’s potentially irrelevant image.) (1) New Issue! Our Jan/Feb 2012 issue is finally at the printers. Print subscribers should get their magazines in a week to ten days; e-subscribers should get their full-color pdfs in about twenty minutes. Not a subscriber? Please subscribe right now, here. I have posted two ...Read more.

Rank-and-File Economics | 9/11 | Ponzi | Floods

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 13, 2011 | Tags: 9/11, airline industry, Alejandro Reuss, Ann Marie Buerkle, Binghamton, climate change, disaster, EPA, FEMA, flight attendants, floods, global warming, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Katherine Sciacchitano, Liz Stanton, Only In It For The Gold, Ponzi schemes, Rick Perry, Rodney Ward, Scott Masters, Social Security, Susquehanna, Triple Crisis, unions, Weather Underground | 3 Comments

(1) Rank-and-File Economics: I have just posted the cover story from our Sept/Oct 2011 Annual Labor Issue, Rank-and-File Economics: Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery, by Katherine Sciacchitano. This is a great article–I hope it gets wide circulation. (I’m working on that now–submitting it to the news aggregators; you can help by linking to ...Read more.

Satan Sandwich; Boeing; Meteorologists

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Aug 2, 2011 | Tags: Boeing, budget cuts, climate change, debt, debt ceiling, deficits, International Associations of Machinists, Joel Kovel, Josh Eidelson, Keith Olbermann, meterologists, NLRB, right-to-work, strikes, unions | 1 Comment

(1) Debt Deal as a “Satan Sandwich”: As Vishay Prashad reports in a good article on the debt “crisis” and deal in Counterpunch, Emanuel Cleaver, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the deal to lift the debt-ceiling a “sugar-coated Satan Sandwich.” Indeed. (We know what he really wanted to call it.) We just posted ...Read more.

Wisconsin, Tim DeChristopher, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Feb 16, 2011 | Tags: austerity, Bill McKibbon, budget cuts, climate change, Farooque Chowdhury, global warming, James Hanson, microcredit, Naomi Klein, public-sector workers, Republicans, Robert Redford, Scott Walker, Tim DeChristopher, unions, Wisconsin | No Comments

(1) Protests in Wisconsin against Republican Threats to Labor: Earlier today I spoke with Roger Bybee, who’s written articles for D&S over the years, often on labor-related topics, about the situation in Wisconsin, where the new Republican governor, Scott Walker, has been busy blaming unionized public-sector workers for the state’s budget woes. The latest gambit ...Read more.

Assange Arrested, Austerity, Textbooks rated, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Dec 7, 2010 | Tags: austerity, climate change, economics textbooks, James Crotty, Julian Assange, lending, National People's Action, Rob Larson, temp workers, Wikileaks | No Comments

(1) Julian Assange Arrested in London: The head of WikiLeaks turned himself in to Scotland Yard, was arrested, and was refused bail. He now faces possible extradition to Sweden, which he will resist. Here’s the story from the Guardian. Here’s something interesting on the charges against him in Sweden, from an Australian lawyer who had ...Read more.