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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!

2009

  • December: These folks aren't waiting for change, they're making it happen
  • November: The "Drug War" is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will
  • October: The four biggest reasons for escalating war in Afghanistan--and why they're bogus
  • September: Supreme Court considers vast increase in the political power of corporations
  • August: Renewable energy can green America's environment, economy, and democracy
  • July: Obama's reform plan is to "watch" Wall Street rather than restructure it
  • June: Everyone hates corporate healthcare-- now, public demand could really change it
  • May: Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power
  • April: Q: What made Wall Street implode? A: They were making too much money to stop
  • March: Time for real workplace democracy-- not the phony company version
  • February: Team Obama's plan for Afghanistan is a disaster in search of a strategy
  • January: Senators bail out their banker buddies but stiff workers and their unions
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