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Author: Erik Loomis

People Get Ready

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On July 14, 2013

The projected violence following the not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman Trial is coming to pass. Lester Chambers, a seventy-three year-old musician known for his work as a member of.

In all the emphasis on factory conditions in Bangladesh's apparel trade, we've forgotten about the other major industrial hazard in the country--tearing apart decommissioned ships for domestic steel production. I've seen this highlighted in Jennifer Baichwal's outstanding documentary Manufactured Landscapes, about the photographer of industrial...

Wal-Mart Stories

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On July 13, 2013

Gawker's series encouraging Wal-Mart employees to tell their own stories is both incredibly powerful and scaring the world's largest corporation. The last thing Wal-Mart wants is for workers to have.

Silicon Valley Anti-Unionism

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On July 12, 2013
Last week, BART workers went on strike, shutting down the region's major mass transit service for a few days. The strike has ended with what will ultimately be a victory for labor. What's notable here though is the response from the Silicon Valley plutocrats who...

McDonnell

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On July 11, 2013
Color me shocked that a Republican as principled and upstanding as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is as crooked as a bag of snakes.* You'd think McDonnell would have just waited for the big grift until he was out of office and a lobbyist himself. *...
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