Notes from the Class War: Killing “The Year of the Populist” in the Crib?
By Jim Miller Recently, in “Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: What’s Left Beyond More Impoverished Choices?”, I continued my analysis of the national debate that followed the publication of Adolph...
View ArticleOutgoing CEO Paul Jacobs to Employees: Tell Your Congressman to Give Qualcomm...
By John Lawrence In his final message after more than eight years as chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), Paul Jacobs on March 4 gave shareholders what he called a “homework assignment.”...
View ArticleThe Small Business Owner’s Case for a Higher Minimum Wage
By Jay Porter / jayporter.com I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but around these parts there’s a strong movement forming to raise the minimum wage. Most of the municipal proposals are in the...
View ArticleIf César Chávez Were Alive Today, He Would Join the Resistance Against Walmart
By Sarita Gupta / Alternet This month, a new film documenting César Chávez’s historic campaign to organize farmworkers in America was released in time with what would have been his 87th birthday....
View ArticleExtreme Weather Watch: March 2014
Winter Weather Made a $55 Billion Hit to US Economy By John Lawrence The winter of 2014 broke records and budgets. NBC News reported that the economy took a $55 billion hit because of the extreme...
View ArticleWe Are the 89%: San Diego Fast-Food Employees and Religious Leaders Take...
Outrage grows as new poll shows stealing from employees is rampant industry wide By Crystal Page/CPI San Diego – Fast-food employees and community and faith leaders took action Thursday against...
View ArticleAt the Behest of the Dirty Food Lobby, Congressman Peters Joins GOP in 55th...
By Doug Porter Congressman Scott Peters and seventeen other Democrats responded to the clarion call of the dirty food lobby last week by joining with House Republicans in their 55th attempt to to scale...
View ArticleMcCutcheon, the Majority, and the Challenge of Our Time
The McCutcheon ruling points us to the defining struggle of today's generation. Richard Eskow / AlterNet The Supreme Court's McCutcheon ruling will be remembered as a decisive battle in a determined...
View ArticleIt’s Equal Pay Day! Republican Incoherence, Executive Orders and How to Get a...
By Anna Daniels Republicans have been having a hard time stringing words together when it comes to explaining why they don't support pay equity for women. It's a straightforward concept--equal pay for...
View ArticleThe Shopping Mall’s Socialist Pre-History
The inventor of the American suburban shopping mall was a socialist. Could his creation have been saved? By Sam Wetherell / Jacobin Magazine The American landscape is littered with hundreds of dead...
View Article“Taxifornia” Dreaming: Who Really Pays in California?
By Jim Miller Tomorrow is tax day, and we are likely to hear the usual histrionics from the pity the millionaire crowd about how the draconian taxes on the affluent and businesses in “Taxifornia” are...
View ArticleBuild Us a Stadium or We’ll Shoot This Puppy – Here Comes the Chargers ‘Deal’
By Doug Porter He doesn’t speak for anyone, UT-San Diego sports columnist Kevin Acee says, and he won’t be heard by anyone. Thus, his page-one-worthy column about the likely scenario for a new football...
View ArticleHappy Tax Day! The Rich and Poor Are Now Equally Free to Purchase Political...
By Doug Porter It seems appropriate on tax day, given the annual media binge of gratuitous coverage of Tea Party protests at Post Offices and editorial cartoons demonizing the Internal Revenue Service,...
View ArticleWho Owns America? Not You
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” --Louis Brandeis By Jim Miller In the wake of the McCutcheon decision,...
View ArticleWealth Creation for Dummies
By John Lawrence Now that Thomas Piketty has clued us in with his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that the upper one percent is making all the money and that the middle class is getting...
View ArticleRepublicans in the Senate Vote Not to Raise Minimum Wage
By John Lawrence A report by Demos revealed that, in 2012, the compensation of fast food CEOs was more than 1,200 times the earnings of the average fast food worker. Proxy disclosures recently released...
View ArticleLast Call for the GOP Obamacare Apocalypse
By Doug Porter It’s no secret the national Republican campaign strategy for 2014 revolves around the demonization of Obamacare. Given the party’s inherent structural advantage (gerrymandering + off...
View ArticleFor the Mid-City Community: Three Decades of Broken Promises
By Sam Ollinger / bikesd.org In late 1972, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) released a report detailing the impact that would result after the construction of I-15 (from I-805 to...
View ArticleOrca Profiles in Captivity: No. 5 of The San Diego 10
By Cara Wilson-Granat / OB Rag This is the fifth in a series of ten in which we meet one of the San Diego 10 orcas and hear from an advocate who continues to be one of the voices of these imprisoned...
View ArticleThe Unist’ot’en Camp – Preparation: Home, Language, Self
By Will Falk It is almost time to go. I am going to the Unist’ot’en Camp in northern British Columbia. The Unist’ot’en Camp is a resistance camp built by the Wet’suwet’en people on the path of seven...
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