- Head of NFL Players’ union addresses the people of Indiana and lays out the anti-worker, union-busting realities of what he describes as the “deviously named” right to work”.
- Your host suggests that Republican proponents of “right to work” boycott the Super Bowl, and protest in front of the gates.
- What the Left means by the word “globalization”.
- Describing “neoliberalism”.
- Corporate vs. peoples’ globalization: affects on environmental sustainability. More than a band aid approach needed to save our global environment: growing worms and buying local produce is good, but it won’t prevent catastrophe; it will take radical change replacing the built-in rapaciousness of global capitalism.
- Caterpillar lock out of Canadian plant workers with the aim of cutting wages by more than half to match the pay of their IL workers. Local businessmen and Chamber of Commerce want a Caterpillar subsidiary to locate in Northwest Indiana.
- Tactics used by business to drive down wages (the two-tier system, speedups, pitting worker against worker, temporary employees) has been enormously successful in increasing profits.
- U.S. arms sales.
- An anarchist explains what capitalism has done to the environment, and proposes needed changes.
NFL Players Association issues statement that, “So-called right to work is a political ploy designed to destroy basic workers’ rights. We urge legislators in Indiana to oppose it.” Hart Research Assoc. poll of IN voters shows strong opposition to proposed “right to work” legislation. The 100th anniversary of the Bread And Roses strike. Obama announces new doctrine featuring nuclear weapons in, “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense”, and Republican critics want even more buildup. The organization Costs Of War’s report on the toll of innocent lives, misspent dollars, and the predictable failure to achieve ill-considered goals in our shameful ongoing wars. Your host finds irony in an Obama fundraising email. Why is there no liberal challenger to Obama in the Democratic Party primaries? The 10th anniversary of detentions at Guantanamo. The Occupy Movement gets some approval, encouragement, and advice from a well regarded socialist journal.
Republican creeps and Democratic enablers: both parties serve Corporate America first, albeit with differences in rhetoric. The history of sit-down strikes; begun by workers, and then adopted as a tactic by civil rights, anti-war, pro-environment, and other progressive elements. Dispelling more corporate lies about “right to work” legislation, particularly in Indiana. Tea Partiers prefer their speedboats to endangered species. Ralph Nader outlines the few, weak, achievements and many serious failures of President Obama over nearly 3 years. Rick Santorum, social-conservative extremist, embraces a fringe interpretation of the Constitution that would destroy the separation of powers, along with its checks and balances, by degrading the judicial branch’s co-equal status in federal government. The war in Iraq is not over, and we should not allow the narratives on the war and continuing occupation to understate its awful tolls and our preposterous pretenses for past and present interference in that country.
Quantified costs to all workers in “right to work” States; Progressive Honor Roll 2011; Remember Wounded Knee and our government’s history of genocide; Environmentalists victory- EPA mercury and air toxins standard will stand; A duplicitous President Obama and the Transportation Security Administration; New Year holiday thoughts; Chapter 31 of the Tao Teh Ching.
Right wing attacks on unions/workers via “right to work”, crippling the NLRB, and propaganda by front organization Chamber of Commerce. How green is Obama?- He, along with Republicans and conservative Democrats, has again gifted (after all it’s the gifting season) Big Oil, this time over the Tar sands oil pipeline. Demonstrate to shut down the national disgrace of illegitimate Guantanamo and Bagram prisons. Anarchists significant and beneficial contributions to the Occupy movement.
- EPA’s enforcement of Clean Air Act standards regarding cement plant toxic emissions upheld against attacks of industry by D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but U.S. Senate can still do much environmental harm regarding cement plant pollution and in many other areas by adding anti-environment riders to must-pass spending and tax bills.
- Coke buys the Grand Canyon for a mere $13 million.
- Shell oil’s greed devalues humans in Niger.
- The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 threatens a severe blow to civil rights.
- NATO/G8 summits set for May in Chicago are already being insulated from the exercise of protestor free speech rights.
- A mild jeer and a mild cheer for President Obama from publishers of two important progressive periodicals regarding his support of progressivism.
- Violent video games shown to negatively impact emotional control and promote aggressive behavior finds an authoritative study just published by the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Right-wing corporate shills in Indiana push “right to work” legislation as their top priority. Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce attempts to drum up support for this anti-worker legislation.
Alabama continues State-enabled racism.
U.S. Postal Service sabotaged. Excellent customer service by postal employees that we now enjoy would be dealt a severe blow with huge job cuts. Choicest delivery business would be handed on a platter to private carriers. Austerity lies and fiscal deception used to cover this anti-worker/anti-citizen cheat.
Lessons and rare music from the Berkley Free Speech Movement.
Obama continues Bush’s quest for despotic spy/arrest/imprisonment powers against citizens and non-citizens.
Unneeded and environmentally harmful Interstate 69 opposition.
Bloomington, IN occupiers’ message; action to stop paying back banks and credit card companies on December 1st; A tale from the front at Occupied Wallstreet; very progressive statement on financial systems by the Vatican; Bush sent suspected terrorists to torture and indefinite detention- Obama kills them (and did not make good on his promise to close Guantanamo)- “the lesser of 2 evils?”
Interview with Steve Gable and Jon Gable about Occupy Valparaiso and the larger Occupy movement.
Occupy Wall Street (and Valparaiso); so-called “right-to-work” legislation.
