Labor

Students, teachers, and social service workers in the Occupy Education movement are not wavering in their commitment to the Millionaires Tax, which would raise taxes only on millionaires.

Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence indicating that the laborers whom they have to thank for cultivating these products are being grossly exploited.

After a decade of gradually taking the Thanksgiving holiday away from the lowest-paid employees, a backlash is finally rising against the American retail industry.

Over the last two decades or more, Republicans have been denouncing as “class warfare” any attempt at criticizing and restraining their mean one-sided system of capitalist financial expropriation.

In the aftermath of the September 11thattacks people starting mobilizing to oppose the arbitrary detentions of South Asian, Arab and Muslim people, the rollback of civil rights and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But 9/11 also spawned a lesser known workers justice movement known as the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United.

Wisconsin was a new spark of that subterranean fire of justice that burns deep in all of us.