By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
It seems I can’t even watch TV news anymore, it just makes me too angry, the cluelessness of the government. I voted for change, not a slight alteration but for change. I sit here in this tiny berg of Powder Springs and I ask myself, “Why is it that I can see these things and these highly-paid experts and analysts don’t?”
I see an economy coming apart at the seams and the politicians of both parties are talking about it as if it’s some (…)
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Connecting the Dots
8 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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The Job
14 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Video: Baltimore Protest in Solidarity with “Sit-In” Workers
10 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
On Wed., Dec. 10, 2008, a demonstration at the Bank of America (BOA) was held in downtown Baltimore, MD. It was led by activists from the All Peoples Congress, among other groups. The purpose of the protest was to show solidarity with the 200 “Sit-In” Republic Windows and Door Workers of Chicago, Il, whose plant has been shut down. The BOA canceled the company’s financing. Its action left the workers without any severance and vacation pay. Critics are insisting that the BOA should use some (…)
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The Bologna Declaration : Critical notes - Part 2
7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Employability
Employability is a point around which the Bologna Declaration has based its rhetoric of the positive forces of the free market.
The Bologna Declaration sustains rhetoric of employability that is central to the redefinition of HE as an economic system. It promotes tools like the Diploma Supplement (a document giving more information about the contents of a qualification earned) aimed at increasing the depth and comparability of degrees across Europe. This is supposed to make (…) -
A Parallel Universe
30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy David Glenn Cox
The scientists toil in their laboratories and build billion-dollar super colliders under the Earth’s crust looking for the secrets of the universe. The heirs of Einstein tell us with confidence that other universes exist, other dimensions where our rules and means of existence simply do not apply. It’s fun to think about such things as a mental exercise, as cranial gymnastics, but if you had to do that type of work all day every day most of us would be dead within a (…) -
The Fox Effect
21 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
We have all sorts of mental conditions and psychoses that cause us to behave outside the norms of society. Post traumatic stress, ADHD, even Alzheimer’s disease can cause cognitive function to decline. So open your medical books and write this one into the margins to be codified into later additions: “The Fox effect.” The Fox effect is a syndrome that appears in all agencies and franchises owned by News Corps. Its symptoms include the inverting of facts and statistics to (…) -
Video: Hotel Workers Protest Lack of a Contract
19 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, a rally by hotel workers, and their supporters, was held in front of the City Hall, in Baltimore, MD. It was part of a “Hotel Workers Rising Campaign,” which seeks to bring “equality to the men and women who cook, clean and serve in hotels throughout North America,” according to the group’s press release. Since April, 2006, the workers at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel, owned by Columbia Sussex, have been “without a contract.” They are calling for “a (…)
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Too Poor for Bankruptcy
7 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
We, as a country, seem to have little problem saving the wealthy from the clutches of poverty. We’ll bail out banks and insurance companies, mortgage funds. The formerly big three automakers will meet with the new administration this week to arrange a further multi-billion-dollar bailout.
How can we say no? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent on these industries. So I guess we must help them, but our society is so far out of economic whack. Most all of our (…) -
You Think I’m Rich, Don’t You?
17 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
Poor Joe the plumber, plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national limelight, his life has now become an open book. After all, all he did was ask a question about tax policy. Little did he know the McCain campaign and Fox News would seize upon him and try to make him an icon.
I wondered about Joe even before the stories started to come out about the tax lien against him or his lack of plumbing license. For years I worked for a man that made well over $250,000 a (…) -
160 years of labor struggle for shorter hours
21 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Michel Etiévent
As far back as 1848, the employers opposed the reduction of the work day from 14 to 12 hours because “it would trigger a series of bankruptcies.”
June 1936. The bosses are in a panic. The work week has fallen to 40 hours. The metal trades bosses thunder against the “law instituting laziness” : “Our companies are lost. How is the nation to recover if our workers, who are used to piece-work and are proud to do it, work half as much ? France is headed for disaster. And (…)