Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
The “Miami Model” and Bahrain; Europe; Walker
(1) Timoney and Bahrain: (Note today’s possibly irrelevant image–can’t remember where I downloaded it, but it was apparently found in a police van in lower Manhattan recently.) The other day I linked to an article from the Atlantic that gave a useful account of the recent history of police tactics with respect to large protests. ...Read more.
Annual Labor Issue!
(1) Annual Labor Issue! Our September/October 2011 issue has been printed and is shipping out now. E-subscribers have already received their copies. I have already posted Josh Eidelson’s feature on the strikes against Boeing, which the NLRB has said Boeing retaliated against the union for. Here is the table of contents. And here is the ...Read more.
Weisbrot and Epitropoulos on Greece
A Call from Mike-Frank Epitropoulos: Mike Epitropoulos, author of Greece as a Demonstration Project (Dollars & Sense, May/June 2010) called me from Athens a couple of days ago. He’ll be writing another article for us soon about the situation over there. In the meantime, check out this piece he wrote for his Znet page, The ...Read more.
Europe Slumming, foreclosure rulings, etc.
(Click on the image above–it is from a very interesting exhibit from 2005.) (1) Europe Slumming It: Last month the LA Times and other outlets reported about IKEA’s factory in Virginia where the company is treating workers in ways that would be unacceptable, and illegal, in Sweden. Workers are pushing back, garnering not much attention ...Read more.
