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Category: Corporations
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You’d think a bunch of old guys, all about the same age, could get-together without arguing. That just doesn’t happen with our Tuesday morning group at Sophie’s Forge Café, located right across from the forge plant where we most of us put in our years of work. We’d been meeting every Tuesday morning at 7:30…
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Dems can’t afford to ‘cave-in’ as Indiana did in 83-20 defeat Many liberals and progressives are demoralized over the results of the November 2nd elections, ready to give in to the corporate-supported public policy agenda that is being rammed through by smug, arrogant Republicans. Case in point: The waffling by the White House and key…
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I look around in my basement office: there are no fewer that five working computers. Plus, my MacBook is upstairs, making a total of six! Who in the world needs all these? I don’t. Yet, the computer companies know the value of frequent up-grades, and therefore my 1999 iMac sits unused — yet perfectly good…
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Just 12 years ago this coming May, Howard Zinn spent two memorable days participating in Wisconsin Labor History Society events: our annual conference held in 1998 in Oshkosh and the Bay View Tragedy event a day later in Milwaukee. This marvelous man, whose life was spent using history to spur ordinary folks to recognize their…
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Scott Brown, so full of glee that he joyously peddled his daughters as “available,” (though one apparently wasn’t), proclaimed his Massachusetts seat win was a “people’s victory.” Wrong! The winners were those who would do very little to really help ordinary folks, middle class working families and the struggling poor. The winners were: The health…
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