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August's Lowdown

Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive

Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.


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Welcome to the Hightower Lowdown archive! Here's where you'll find every issue by date; you can also search for what you're looking for. Note that our six most recent issues are available to subscribers only, but everything else is open to everyone!

2000

  • December: The missing 100 million presidential ballots
  • November: Let's builld a politics that gives us a real chance
  • October: When polluters challenge, al gore backs down
  • September: Who bought the Party Conventions?
  • August: Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped
  • July: Our tax billions go to losing a war in Colombia
  • June: The Democrats sell out the middle class over China
  • May: Nader's slugging it out with the party duopoly
  • April: Where have all the issues gone?
  • March: Crime in the suites
  • February: Election 2000 already decided! big money's guy wins it!
  • January: The seattle tea party
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