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* snort! * He’s not the same as you and me; He doesn’t dig poetry. He’s so unhip that When…
Hah! Fun as it is, it looks to me like this George Shaw, whoever he is, is basically writing My…
[P]eople with money buy things, so a beggar with money can take on the role of consumer. Doolittle: I’m one…
People get into plenty of trouble dressing up for Halloween at costume parties with themes like, “come as the scariest…
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Category Archives: Class, poverty, labor, & related issues
CLEAN Carwash!
We’re still at it! This Sunday, May 3rd, the CLEAN Carwash Campaign and Progressive Jewish Alliance will be picketing the Vermont Hand Wash at 1666 N. Vermont Avenue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Although no carwash in Los Angeles … Continue reading →
Debtors' prisons making a comeback
Bean pointed out this story to me, from Eric Ruder in The Intelligence Daily: In 2006, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a suit on behalf of Ora Lee Hurley, who couldn’t get out of prison until she … Continue reading →
Easter in Orange County
Last Sunday, sitting on the steps next to my container garden outside my Long Beach apartment, I heard a group of people singing in the next building. I thought of the seder I’d had a couple of nights before; my … Continue reading →
Susan Boyle, Class, Age, and Prettiness
I’m finding the story about Susan Boyle, a “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant whose audition video has been very popular on Youtube, interesting. The video (which can be found here) is great fun to watch, because Susan Boyle herself is very … Continue reading →
Pandagon triggers 'oh!' moment for Mandolin about middle class propagation
I just read this on Pandagon and had a sense of “Oh! Oh! Ohmigod! Oh!” — not so much because of it’s analysis of the breastfeeding issue speficially, but because I’d never thought of this aspect of how the middle … Continue reading →
Post-Race Doomsday Detonation: Catch the (Shock) Wave!
Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Who wants to check out the raps of a pissed-off, punk-rocking, straight-edge, vegan eating, 31337 typing, Pilipino activist blogger and scholar? I do! And so you do you God damn-it! The power of the simulacra … Continue reading →
When White Kids Have Spontaneous Fun, Working Class People of Color Left to Clean Up Their Shit
Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. [Hat tip: xMabaitx and SF Chronicle]
Western Economic Crisis to Hit Developing Nations Hardest
The World Bank came out with a report today stating that the world economy would shrink, which is the most dire assessment that an institution of economists have come out with for the economic prospects this year. The New York … Continue reading →
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The Tomato You Eat This Winter, May Have Been Picked By Slave Labor
From an article in Gourmet magazine: Lucas’s “room” turned out to be the back of a box truck in the junk-strewn yard, shared with two or three other workers. It lacked running water and a toilet, so occupants urinated and … Continue reading →
With Judges Like These
Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. First read this on the e-mail list serve I’m on for the website Community Labor News. In an article by Mumia Abu-Jamal, he writes: In Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County, there are 9 judges of the Court … Continue reading →
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