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Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
Also in this issue:
- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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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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Granny d marches on!
We told you last month about Doris Haddock, the 89-year-old great-grandmother who is walking—walking!—across all 3,000 miles of America to rally public support for campaign finance reform.
It's a major story that the establishment media is ignoring (they've been notified), but the people are getting it via word of mouth, the Internet and, of course, the Hightower Chat & Chew radio talk show (on-line at www.jimhightower.com— noon to 2 pm EST).
Granny had a grand time in Phoenix when she and a crowd of supporters gathered outside the office of Republican U.S. Senator Jon Kyl—a notorious anti-reformer. For weeks ahead of time she had requested an audience with him, and he was in his office but wouldn't come out. A powerhouse Senator hiding under his desk! As she put it: "I think he's afraid of Granny."
Keep up with this remarkable lady's democratic crusade: www.grannyd.com.