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A peaceful march for human rights
The petition made specific demands: open discussions between the workers and the government, an eight-hour working day, a minimum wage of one ruble a day, more hygienic factories, an income tax, an amnesty for political prisoners, universal suffrage, education and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, voting and voting rights
Tagged " Father George Gapon, Grand Duke Vladimir, Robert Payne, Romanov dynasty, Russian "Bloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II, Winter Palace St Petersburg
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Giving up privilege to end income equality
I read a lot of stuff, both news and opinion. Once in a while, though, I read something that sticks in my head as quite wonderful, quite unusual. And a recent New York Times opinion piece by Darren Walker, “Are … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, The War On Workers
Tagged Business Roundtable, Darren Walker, Ford Foundation, Milton Friedman
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Out of the greatness of their hearts and minds…
CEOs of some of the largest and richest corporations in the universe have, in a roundtable (did anyone measure the circumference? Must have been one BIG table), come to the radically innovative conclusion that… Their whole purpose in their corporate … Continue reading
Posted in political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, The War On Workers
Tagged Elizabeth Warren, Jamie Dimon, Jamie Gamble, JPMorgan Chase, Katie Porter
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