Haiti is an amazing country. Sure, it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. But that is not the fault of the brave and generous Haitian people.
Haiti was formerly one of the most brutal French plantation colonies. Some of the planters there were monsters of sadism and depravity. Read the history.
The rum and sugar [...]
Posts under ‘News’
How Haiti Got This Way and Why We Owe Them Help
Forced Labor (Slavery?) in Florida!
What is it with Florida? The reports just keep coming in about Immokalee County, where poor immigrant workers are lured with the promise of jobs and then trapped in brutally inhumane conditions and not allowed to escape.
Over and over we have been asked to boycott this or that fast food restaurant in the last few [...]
Right-Wing Organizes Unruly Mobs to Prevent Healthcare Discussion
The Insurance industry is spending $1.4 million a day to fight reform. The right-wing is organizing “unruly mobs” to disrupt healthcare town meetings across America. The behavior is so obvious, obnoxious, and antidemocratic that reporters have written about it all over the country.
Coleman Finally Concedes—7 Months Late
So Norm Coleman finally conceded his loss in the Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken—-only 7 months too late for even a shred of dignity.
It took a unanimous vote of the Minnesota Supreme Court to finally make Coleman give it up. Talk about making a fool of yourself—at the expense of your former constituents. And, of course, making sure that no one in MN will ever vote for you for anything again…
Is StarBucks the new WalMart?
StarBucks (otherwise known as AstronomicalBucks), it turns out, treats its workers like dirt.
Just like WalMart, StarBucks plays dirty tricks to (illegally) keep workers from unionizing. To find out more, watch this video:
Earth Day Origins and Impact Video
Want to know more about the importance of Earth Day? How it got started? What it has accomplished so far? Take a look at the following Earth Day video and find out.
Related articles by Zemanta
Happy Earth Day! (greenmonk.net)
Eco Organizing Awards 2009 (stacksandstacks.com)
Happy Earth Day 2009 (energyrefuge.com)
What the heck to do on Earth Day 2009 (lightbulbs.org)
Sphere: [...]
Propaganda Strikes Deep
As the old song says, ”Propaganda strikes deep. Into your mind it will creep….” Oh, wait! That’s “paranoia”. But actually propaganda leads to paranoia—both for the people who are lied to and for the liars. You can see it any day on FOX TV or hear it on AM radio talk shows.
Either the propagandists start to believe [...]
Cleaning up the Clean Water Act
Congress is “this close” to passing a bill to restore the Clean Water Act to its pristine glory, cleaning up the mess made by the Bush administration. You see, to please the coal industry, the Bushites passed a rule that it was OK to blast the tops of mountains and dump the resulting millions of tons of coal waste into streams—-even to cover up and block streams entirely.
The result was literally coal black tap water for many residents of Appalachia. And even when it was not black, some of that water was toxic. Oh, and incidentally the destruction of over 1200 miles of streams in (formerly beautiful) Appalachia.
The rule-change was made so that it would be cheaper for coal companies to blow the tops off ancient, forested mountains in Appalachia (hundreds of mountains so far!) and bulldoze the leftover, dirt, stones, trees, and toxic waste into the valleys and streams below.
The problem with that is that it polluted the drinking water (coal black tapwater!) for millions of people downstream.
Earth Day, Every Day, Because…
Just in case you forgot what planet you are on, here is a reminder that Earth Day is coming up on April 22.
All the other planets have had a day each week for thousands of years
Moon Monday
Mars Tuesday
Mercury Wednesday
Jupiter Thursday
Venus Friday
Saturn Saturday
Sun Sunday
Somehow it took us till 1970 to remember to give Earth her own day, and that is just once a year. Well, all the weekdays were already taken.
So in case you have forgotten what the point is of Earth Day, how it started, and how it is still celebrated, watch this video:
CEO Salary Caps: Well, It’s About Time!
American CEOs are paid several times as much on average as CEOs in other developed countries. They are way overpaid. European CEOs of comparable or larger multinational corporations make much, much, much less. Japanese CEOs make even less. We need to limit all CEO salaries to a reasonable multiple of what the lowest paid worker makes—including contract labor.
