Pete Seeger & This & That

FOCUS | In Defense of Pete Seeger, American Communist

Bhaskar Sunkara, Al Jazeera America
Sunkara writes: "It's not that Seeger did a lot of good despite his longtime ties to the Communist Party; he did a lot of good because he was a Communist."
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FOCUS: Michael Moore | Ford Paid a $15 Minimum Wage 100 Years Ago, So Can We

Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog
Moore writes: "The CEOs will scream and weep now just like they did then, and just like then they'll be wrong. Not only would it not destroy American businesses, it might be the only thing that can save them."
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It never occurred to me that Pete Seeger could die, for I thought of him as a permanent piece of America--like the Bill of Rights. I first met Pete at the Newport Folk Festival in 1969 and it was my good luck to learn from him over the years by joining him in a few of the many grassroots causes he embraced. He genuinely was "of, by, and for the People," and his exemplary life gives all of us a rich up-tempo, belt-em-out songbook of how common people can team up to battle the bosses, bankers, big shots, bastards, and bull-shitters.

Read and share Hightower's thoughts on Pete Seeger here.

The rest from Jim Hightower:

The highly-educated working poor: Adjunct professors

By Jim Hightower - Wed., 1/29/14

There's a growing army of the working poor in our USofA, and big contingents of it are now on the march. They're strategizing, organizing, and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around... [read more]

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The new loophole that connects Congress to corrupt corporate cash

By Jim Hightower - Tue., 1/28/14

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Wall Street warns Democrats: Avoid Populism!

By Jim Hightower - Mon., 1/27/14

Here's a jarring headline: "Economic Populism Is a Dead End for Democrats."

That's the title on a recent op-ed piece written by a couple of longtime political flacks for Wall... [read more]

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The Walmartization of higher education

By Jim Hightower - Fri., 1/24/14

We've learned from hard experience that the moral values of corporate chieftains rarely penetrate deeper than the value of their multimillion-dollar pay packages. But shouldn't we expect more from the chieftains of colleges and universities?
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Moral Monday on the move

By Jim Hightower - Thu., 1/23/14

Rosa Parks became a powerful symbol of courage and defiance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s by simply refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back... [read more]