Showing posts with label labor history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor history. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2014

Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Dolores Huerta is keynote speaker at Dem convention

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I am a delegate to the Wyoming Democratic Party state convention in Rock Springs. I had to fight hard for the convention spot. Really,...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

History is not a game

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We live in the age of miracles and innovations. I walk around with a device that helps my heart correct arrhythmia -- I got rhythm! I ...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Performance by Wyoming artist remembers the 1913 IWW strike at a New Jersey factory

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Suzanne Morlock is a socially engaged artist from Wilson, Wyoming. This bucolic Rocky Mountain valley town is a long way from Paterson, ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Poet and labor activist Mark Nowak is eminent-writer-in-residence at UW in February

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Poet and labor activist Mark Nowak in coming to Wyoming: For the much of the past decade, Mark Nowak has been extricating the poetry work...
Monday, September 03, 2012

Rev. Rodger McDaniel's Labor Day sermon: "Cesar, Samuel, Shanker & Moses"

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The Rev. Rodger McDaniel is one of my fellow progressive bloggers. While none of us take any pledges as bloggers, Rodger has pledged a lifet...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ashes to ashes -- now take the bastards down!

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So Ash Wednesday was yesterday. This marks the beginning of Lent. I wore ashes on my forehead for most of my life. I miss them, but I can no...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Which Side Are You On?

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Dropkick Murphys rock out an old union song. And remember the struggles of the Irish in America.
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Tell it like it is M.L. and Wanda and Walt and Eminem and Maria and...

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Nice review of the anthology "Working Words" in Hot Metal Bridge, the litmag at University of Pittsburgh. The reviewer, Amanda Br...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

"It is our labor that keeps this whole world together"

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Lines from M.L. Liebler's poem "Making it Right" in Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams from Coffee Ho...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Even on Labor Day, corporations busily creating fewer jobs

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As always, bona fide populist Jim Hightower is angry and is making sense when it comes to corporate greed. Great reading for Labor Day (or e...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Labor Day weekend is good time to order new "Working Words" anthology

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A new anthology from Coffee House Press in the Twin Cities is Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams . It's edited ...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Michael and me: Angry White Men

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Make It Happen. Again.

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President Obama said this in his inaugural address: "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, b...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Labor Day: Hope vs. More of the McSame

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Labor Day drive across WYO in our trusty high-mileage Saturn Ion, made in the U.S.A. by American workers. Raining along I-25 as we return fr...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Meet the DNC delegates: Kathy Karpan

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Kathy Karpan grew up in a Democratic neighborhood. In Wyoming. "I didn't know there was a Republican Party," says Karpan. That...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wyo Dems host "Salute to Labor"

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This comes from Bill Luckett, communications director for the Wyoming Democratic Party : As promised, here are the details for this year’s J...