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Hightower Lowdown
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -M.Twain
In This Issue
The media calls anyone who shouts "a populist"
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power
Also in this issue:
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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Matt's Pulitzer nod
Our own cartoonist, Matt Wuerker, got the nod from the Pulitzer Prize people to be a finalist for this year's Editorial Cartooning Prize. He didn't win, but Matt's work in Lowdown certainly makes him the most, well, populist of the entire crop! Also, a man not afraid of profundity: When he branched into doing cartoons online for website Politico, we wondered if cartoons are really cartoons if you can't stick 'em on the fridge with a magnet. "The Internet is just a bigger, better refrigerator door," said Matt.