Posts Tagged ‘Noam Chomsky’

Freedom Plaza and BoA Action in DC

A quick report from DC: On Thursday around lunch time I visited the other #OccupyDC encampment, at Freedom Plaza.  It was about at sleepy as the one at Macpherson Square (which I visited, and blogged about, on Wednesday), and the space is wide open and inhospitable, across the street from the massive Ronald Reagan building. ...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.