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 …
Finding Solace in the World Above
December 23, 2020 Pearl River It’s hard to describe the pleasure we feel when we can take ourselves out of this world, but it’s real, and it’s special. It was wonderful that “appointment viewing,” as the television critics term some shows, actually involved the vast universe above us, as we searched the southwestern sky for …