Near disaster at airport fitting tribute to Reagan’s legacy
Do you remember Ronald Reagan and the air traffic controllers' strike of 1981? That was the year Reagan destroyedthe Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Organization.
Triangle fire: then and now
While walking through the Evergreen Cemetery recently, located in Ridgewood Brooklyn, I came across a section dedicated to eight unidentified young women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911.
Have women come a long way? Yes and no
Young women talk about how they have benefited from the struggles of their mothers' and grandmothers' generation, and the new and old challenges they face today.
Is democracy inherent in socialism?
That's how it should be, but, as history teaches, socialism is democratic only if we make it so.
Banker’s deficit solution: work longer with less pay and half the benefits
Many children were working in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory when fire broke out. Such conditions, if Republicans have their way, may again become commonplace.
There were no outsiders in Madison
America called and they came. And it was immediate. Wave after wave of concerned citizens evolved into a tsunami of humanity that descended upon Madison, Wisconsin. As workers, students and everyday citizens with no political bent understood the Republicans' intent, they responded en masse.
Financial dictator would rob Detroiters of their vote
The same financial power structure that ruined Detroit economically stands in the shadows as mouthpieces of money in the state government threaten the majority Black city.
Routing the barbarians at the gate
The right-wing offensive is backfiring. But the battle is far from won.
Reduce gas prices? Nationalize big oil
I blew a gasket paying $3.89 for a gallon of gas the other day. It cost me over $60 to fill the tank and tore a gigantic hole in my pocket.
