I know I shouldn’t have been surprised at their reaction…but it still gets my blood boiling a bit when I read these things.

I’m glad I switched churches recently to St. Patrick/St. Antony’s in Hartford whose parish does a lot more community outreach and realizes its 2008. Although…maybe I should wait and see what statement they produce.

I honestly loved this show. I thought the acting, the story and the message were brilliantly done (and I hate clowns…really). Great job to everyone involved! I’m hoping to get to another showing this week and bringing more people this time besides my lonely ol’ self.

Kudos!

But why should our money be spent to invest in businesses that will not invest in us? Even as the trillion dollar Wall St. bailout was being discussed, business journals were discussing the ways that big business could manipulate the bail out to increase its profits. And the entire process of determining how the bailout would work was an exercise in “big business would like this but it wouldn’t like that,” as if, coming to the door begging for billions, the corporations could dictate the terms on which our money would be handed over to them.

One of the points that I have been trying to make in this and other articles on the economic crisis is that the working class has to begin thinking about its interests first. We have been so indoctrinated by a couple of decades of Reaganomics (as practiced by politicians of both parties) that we just take it for granted that the only way we can help ourselves is by helping the corporations . . . anything we get is just fortunately dropped crumbs from the table. It’s time we started saying, for example with respect to the auto industry, “You want corporate tax relief, well here’s the terms: guaranteed no layoffs for two years, no outsourcing overseas for two years, and any manufacturer that isn’t presently unionized must, in order to get help, allow unions to do card check to organize all of its non-union facilities in the U.S.”

When you go to the bank to get a loan or sign up to get a credit card or buy a house or a car, there are conditions. The conditions are not there to favor you they are there to favor the corporation putting up the cash. Well if we’re going to put up the cash, it’s time to begin conditioning it on terms that favor working people.

This unity is exactly what we need. We need it to defend the constitution. We need it to end racism, homophobia, anti-trans oppression and sexism. We need it to deal with an establishment that wouldn’t think twice about taking a trillion dollars from workers to help out the rich.

Come out, come out where ever you are….SUNDAY. We need this unity. Come on out. Now is the time!

He can be pulled over for DWB, because he’s Black, not because he’s mixed heritage (really everyone is mixed heritage).

Clearly the very reason for the creation of that specious pseudo-science called “race,” was to provide advantages to those who are considered white.

There are those that have moved into that category of “white” over the decades: Irish, Italians, Jews etc…. But I don’t think Obama has been afforded that priviledge yet.