Workers & Class
Getting real about the Oakland Riots
Friday, January 9th, 2009From one of our collaborators, who lives at “ground zero” of the rioting in Oakland:
OAKLAND, CA. January 8, 2009. Okay, so I’ve heard a lot of stuff from neighbors, seen a bunch of the damage, and read a lot of stupid-ass comments on the internet from people who don’t know anything, and it’s pretty obvious [...]
We were right. We are screwed.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008From a Twin Cities paper, where certain parents are convinced everything is easy because it doesn’t have the silly cost of living that coastal cities do:
With more and more jobs being outsourced every day, many college grads end up in the service industry just to get by. They claim that it’s temporary, that [...]
Forgive me, Padre, for I’m a total jackass
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007You’re kidding, right, Alberto?
Alberto Gonzales’ publicist has written a disgusting suck-up-to-the-people piece for CNN’s “Hispanic Experience” series. So first of all, Hispanic what? Is this a regional thing we don’t know about? Not even the newspapers we read use “Hispanic” anymore. That’s for census and employment forms, as far as we’ve seen. Secondly, “The Hispanic [...]