December 27, 2020 Pearl River Maybe I’m wrong, but over the Trump years, as the media has groped around trying to figure out a way to characterize him and his supporters, the old poles of liberal, moderate, and conservative seemed to have disappeared in the polarity of right and left. My hunch is that among …
Month: December 2020
The Continued Call to Organize the South
December 26, 2020 Pearl River Ben Speight is a seasoned labor organizer based in Atlanta. I’ve known him for a while, initially as an organizer with the Teamsters locals there. More recently he ran a team for AFGE that focused on getting hundreds of thousands of their members ready for terrible contract negotiations with the …
Another Side of NASA: Possum Walk Heritage Trail
December 24, 2020 Pearl River NASA is in the news again. Eyes are pointed upward. Astronauts are being trained for the moon. Americans indicate that there are other priorities people think are perhaps more important for NASA. Surveys indicate that 53% of Americans want NASA to monitor global climate as a top priority. The …