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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!

2002

  • December: If you're not using the party, let us borrow it
  • November: Local and organic farmers fight back
  • October: The Bush gang's plan to rule the world
  • September: Locking down democracy to keep America “free”
  • August: A bunkered government behind an iron veil
  • July: Bush’s military budget costs us our future
  • June: Stop the corporate takeover of our water
  • May: Let’s make higher ed. free for all americans
  • April: How Wal-Mart is remaking our world
  • March: Don’t focus on enron, focus on the system
  • February: Looting the treasury
  • January: Let’s declare energy independence — now!
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