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The Mondragon Cooperatives and 21st Century Socialism: A Review of Five Books with Radical Critiques and New Ideas From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development By Greg MacLeod UCCB Press, 1997 The Myth of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics and … Continue reading
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INDIANA LABOR MOVEMENT GETS PNEUMONIABy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 12, 2011 On Thursday morning, March 10, three buses left the parking lot of a largesupermarket in Lafayette, Indiana bound for the huge workers rights rally at … Continue reading
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he Attack on the Public Sector and How Unions are Fighting Bac The Attack on the Public Sector and How Unions are Fighting Back The labor movement has rarely won anything without the social movement, and the social movement has … Continue reading
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Donna Cooper : Infographic Reveals Safety Net for the Wealthy
Chart from Center for American Progress.Infographic worth a thousand words!Tax entitlements rip the safety net By Donna Cooper / Center for American Progress / March 8, 2011 House leaders are unfortunately restricting their proposed budget cuts for the remainder of … Continue reading
Bruce Melton : Bat Out of Climate Hell
Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Like a bat out of climate Hell:Alaska and the Amazon are done By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2011 I have been really busy lately with my new HD … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : Like a Bat Out of Climate Hell
Like a bat out of climate Hell:Alaska and the Amazon are done By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2011 I have been really busy lately with my new HD film about the pine beetle pandemic in … Continue reading
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Think Progress : The Koch Brothers’ War on Mainstreet
Charles and David: The brothers Koch. Image from AlterNet.The Kochs vs. Mainstreet: The right-wing billionaires’ open war on everyday Americans By Think Progress / AlterNet / March 2, 2011 Koch Industries, the private company of the billionaire Koch brothers Charles … Continue reading
The Ten Reasons The Banksters Get Away With It The Wall Street Crime Syndrome Goes Deeper Than We Think:Q. Why No Jailings? A: It’s The System, Not Just The Prosecutors By Danny Schechter Hats off to writer Matt Taibbi for … Continue reading
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Lauren Kelley : Packing Heat on Texas Campuses
Texas Governor Rick Perry fires a six shooter at an event in Fort Worth. Photo by Rodger Mallison / AP.Pretty scary: Texas about to make it legalto carry guns on college campuses By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet / February 21, … Continue reading
John McMillian’s “Smoking Typewriters,” in telling the historic tale of the Sixties underground press, “puts readers in the cockpit of the era. He conjures up the radical style, the exuberant mood, and the bravado…” The book profiles the “loud, colorful, … Continue reading
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Joshua Brown : Life During Wartime: Slay the Beast
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE Political cartoon and verse by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / February 20, 2011.The Rag Blog
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