June 29, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company proposes a project that it claims will spur the creation of 118,000 new… Read More »
ARE PROGRESSIVES IN DENIAL ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
June 16, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our world a better place to live…. Read More »
LABOR VS. THE WAR: THE IRAQ MORATORIUM
May 13, 2011 One of the memorable images of the Vietnam war era was a news photo of hard-hatted construction workers beating up peace demonstrators near a New York construction site. The AFL-CIO was one of the leading supporters of the war. Although by the late 1960s working class communities prompted in part by… Read More »
NEXT STEPS FOR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW
May 13, 2011 Previous posts have described the vision laid out in the “Bejiing Declaration”on “The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for transformation” and the specific proposals that make up its “transitional program” to move toward a “radically different kind of political and economic order.” This post looks at next steps toward realizing such… Read More »
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