January 29, 2009 New Orleans It would be nice to say to the Right, “Hey, get over it!” The Arkansas legislature failed to get a unanimous resolution of congratulations to President Obama, and throughout the last week the Google alerts have been filled with wildness that says the national community organization, ACORN, is slated …
Month: January 2009
Doug Allen and SAG
New Orleans Other than on some kind of screen, silver, LED, computer, TV or whatever, I probably would not know a screen actor if one bit me, so I’m probably not qualified to comment on the internal squabbles within the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) and their termination of Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Doug …
Grassroots Labor Rights Enforcement
New Orleans I was talking recently to Kim Bobo about her book, Wage Theft, which makes the clear and irrefutable point that American workers are getting ripped off by a lot of employers. She told me that she was hoping this old school notion of actually enforcing labor laws, especially those designed to protect …