Editors' Blog
Civil Rights and the Tragedy at Rutgers
The following is the text of a statement a made at a rally today at Rutgers in response to the recent tragedy, where a freshman student took his own life by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after two Rutgers students used a web camera to show him engaged in same sex acts in his dorm room and then put this on the Internet, subjecting him to humiliation.
New Job Tracker Tool Highlights Corporate Abuses
Recently, I took a look at a new tool called JobTracker, which tracks job losses due to outsourcing and other corporate abuses put together by Working America.
A New Website and an Ongoing Struggle
The new website looks fine--it is one step forward with no steps backward. Let me catch up with events
Party of No/Party of Wall Street
The following item was recently posted at OurFuture.org.
Call to Action -- 26 Days to Get Out the Vote
Call to Action -- 26 Days to Get Out the Vote
Working-Class Studies Association 2011 Conference
The Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies is hosting the Working-Class Studies Association 2011 Conference
Banks hoisted on their own petard in foreclosure paperwork snag
Provisions in many states' foreclosure laws prohibit: a) Signing foreclosure documents without inspecting them, and b) signing foreclosure documents without knowing who has clear title to the property.
Too Big to Fail? The Bigger They Are...
We hear a lot lately about corporations (e.g. banks) that are 'too big to fail', in other words, companies that have become so large that they are 'structurally important', they have become a part of the fabric of society to the extent that their failure might be, at least in the eyes of the powerful, catastrophic.
One nation working together
Here is the New York Times coverage:
Millions for Republicans who block reform
In his recent blog post over at OurFuture.org, Zach Carter digs into which Republicans are getting big Wall Street cash to block the President's reform agenda.
