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"You can spend your time agonizing or organizing." -- Dorothy Day
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While most of the Democrats in Washington cower
The presidency is taking over the courts and Congress
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- U.S. CORPS BACK CHINESE SUPPRESSION
- VERICHIP IMPLANTS AND TUMORS
- AN EXCLUSIVE PRIMARY
- OUR GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE
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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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OUR GAPING ECONOMIC DIVIDE
According to faireconomy.org, which analyzes CEO pay, perks, and pensions, in 2006 the chieftains of Fortune 500 corporations averaged $10.8 million each in pay--more than 364 times the annual paychecks of the average U.S. worker! On top of this, CEOs salted away an average of $1.3 million in pension gains in 2006, and they averaged another $438,000 in such freebies as personal travel on corporate jets, country-club fees, and even corporate payment of their taxes.