June 2015 - Page 2 of 7 - Toward Freedom

Trabajadores Migrantes en Lecherías Piden Ben y Jerry’s Proveer Leche con Dignidad, Preparan Día Nacional de Acción

Jonathan Leavitt June 23, 2015 Jonathan Leavitt

Traducción: Mary Lou Hardwich Leavitt

En inglés: Migrant Farmworkers Ask Ben & Jerry’s to Provide “Milk With Dignity,” Prepare National Day of Action

Dentro de la cadena de suministro de Ben y Jerry’s negocio de helado, el sueldo del trabajador migrante Victor Diaz estaba a retenido el verano pasado. El vivia en un remolque superpoblado en Ferrisburgh, VT, su techo agujereado cubierto con una carpa, y un charco de estiercol de vacas agujereando en el agua potable de los trabajadores. Entonces Diaz y otros trabajadores agricolas se marcharon en la finca con gente de fe y aliados comunitarios, ganando su sueldo atrasado. read more

Armed Violence in the Heartland: Our Jihadis and Theirs

Tom Engelhardt June 23, 2015 Tom Engelhardt

National security officials and politicians have been pounding home the message that the “greatest threat” to Americans is an extreme and brutal jihadist movement thousands of miles away and the videos and social media messages its followers produce that make it seem close at hand.

What’s Next for the World’s Largest Federation of Worker-Owned Co-Ops?

Mary Hansen June 23, 2015 Mary Hansen

A conversation with Mondragon President Josu Ugarte about cooperative values, how its member co-ops support one another, and how it interacts with its workers outside of Spain.

America’s CEOs Now Make 303 Times More Than Their Workers

Super User June 23, 2015 Super User

Source: Mother Jones

The US economy is rebounding for the nation’s top income earners but not for everyone else, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute. The study, published Sunday, finds that chief executives at the country’s 350 biggest firms earned an average of $16.3 million in 2014, marking a 54.3 percent increase since 2009. Meanwhile, compensation for typical workers in the same industries as those CEOs fell 1.7 percent over the same time period.

“Those at the top of the income distribution, including many CEOs, are seeing a strong recovery, while the typical worker is still experiencing the detrimental effects of a stagnant labor market,” the study’s authors, Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis, found. read more

Dylann Roof, over-policing and the real story about safety in America

Corey Robin June 23, 2015 Corey Robin

Source: Salon.com

In response to Wednesday’s murder of nine African Americans at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church, President Obama said, “Innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

I’ll admit: When I first read that statement, I thought Obama was talking about the police. Unfair of me perhaps, but it’s not as if we haven’t now been through multiple rounds of high-profile killings of African Americans at the hands of the police. read more

Politics of the Possible: The Sanders Crusade

Greg Guma June 22, 2015 Greg Guma

If a psychic had predicted in the 1970s that Bernie Sanders would someday stand on the White House lawn in support of an embattled Democratic President, or become a Democrat himself, people who knew him would have considered it a poor joke. Sanders would have called it “totally outrageous.”