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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!

2004

  • December: Fables, flim-flam, and urban legends of our time
  • November: Reasons to celebrate and be hopeful!
  • October: Progressive groups are busting out all over
  • September: Can we prevent another stolen election?
  • August: The numbers tell the tale of the Bush presidency
  • July: Our health and education— trashed
  • June: We'll have to build the people's John Kerry
  • May: The people's media reaches more people than Fox does
  • April: Bushco's mad, mad, mad, mad, mad cow policy
  • March: It's not just jobs we're losing -- it's America's middle class
  • February: The Bushites' betrayal of our troops and vets
  • January: We the people have driven the Dems to populism
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