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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries III: Visions of the Future
Otalora: This old blockhouse fortress now houses a worker-owned credit union. Image from Udalatx / Flickr.Mondragon Diaries, Day ThreeVisions of the future, ties to the past:Tools for shaping organization for tomorrowBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 27, … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Carl Davidson, Cooperative Movement, Europe, Labor, Socialism, Spain, Workers Cooperatives
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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries II: It Starts With a School
Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in Basque Country. Image from PermcultureCooperative.Mondragon Diaries, Day TwoIt starts with a school:Knowledge and the path to workers power By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 23, 2010 [This is the second of a five-part … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Carl Davidson, Education, Europe, Labor, Socialism, Spain, Workers Cooperatives
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Carl Davidson : Mondragon Diaries I: Bridges to Socialism
Not paradise, but close: Mondragon Cooperatives in Spain’s Basque Country. Photo from Model-Economy.Mondragon Diaries, Day OneBridges to 21st century socialism:Why humanity comes first at workBy Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 20, 2010 “This is not paradise and … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Carl Davidson, Europe, Labor, Socialism, Spain, Workers Cooperatives
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David Bacon : Life in an Immigrant Labor Camp
Immigrant workers at labor camp in northern California. Photos by David Bacon / The Rag Blog. Journalist and long-time labor organizer David Bacon will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin, Tuesday, September 7, … Continue reading
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Tagged California, David Bacon, Farmworkers, Immigration, Labor, Mexico
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Conservative Economics : Just Plain Loco
Cartoon by Daryl Cagle / MSNBC.Still trickling after all these years…The insanity of conservative economics By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 9, 2010 Like a bunch of lemmings following each other over a cliff to disaster, conservative … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Economic Recovery, Economics, Income Gap, Labor, Ronald Reagan, Ted McLaughlin
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In a Changing World : Workers on the Move
Workers in Paris join in massive May Day demonstration. Photo from AFP.As the nature of work evolves…A week of worker militancy Those who proclaimed May Day as the workers’ day over a hundred years ago understood the need for global … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Labor, May Day, Social Action, workers rights, World
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Austin Construction Workers : ‘No los Vamos a Olvidar’
Tom VandeStadt, pastor at the Congregational Church of Austin, addresses crowd during Austin protest. Flanking him are Cristina Tzintzún, director of the Workers Defense Project, and construction worker Gumercindo Rodriquez. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Remembering fallen comrades:Workers … Continue reading
Dick J. Reavis: ‘Catching Out’ in the Secret World of Day Laborers
Image from Portland Indymedia.Researching my new book on the job:Catching Out: The Secret World of Day LaborersBy Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / February 15, 2010 Author/activist/educator and Rag Blog contributor Dick Reavis will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Authors, Books, Dick J. Reavis, Labor, The Rag, Workers
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Ven. Sevan Ross : A Buddhist’s View of Wage Theft
Ven. Sevan Ross, on right, with Unitarian Universalist minister James Ford. Photo from Monkey Mind.A Buddhist’s view of wage theftRight Livelihood and paying people what’s right As long as we regard each other not as humans but as the “other,” … Continue reading
Juan Cole: Labor Day in a Kleptocracy
Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a KleptocracyBy Juan Cole / September 7, 2009 The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still … Continue reading
Singin’ on Sunday – Dick Gaughan
Dick Gaughan – Handful of Earth From a 1983 BBC Spectrum Documentary. Dedicated to all the workers out there. Thanks to Erich Seifert / The Rag Blog
Fighting Back in Hard Times: The Power of Organized Labor Action
Laid-off Republic Windows and Doors factory worker Maria Gonzalez holds a picket sign outside the factory in December 2008 in Chicago, Ill. About 250 workers demanded severance and vacation pay owed to them.The Legacy Lives OnBy Kari Lydersen / June … Continue reading
