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Category Archives: Polis
Hotel Workers Picket during Fur Rondy (press release)
The Hotel Workers Rising campaign is a national campaign for decent working conditions and wages for hotel workers. Press Release February 27, 2010 Contact: Amarjeet Chhabra, UNITE HERE Local 878 907-272-6036 (wk) or 416-856-9587 (cell) Hotel Workers Picket during Fur Rondy! Sheraton and Hilton workers tell crowds downtown to boycott their hotels What: Informational Picketline [...]
Also posted in Social justice Tagged hotel workers, Remington Hotels, Sheraton Anchorage, UNITE HERE Local 878 Leave a comment
Sheraton Anchorage update: Governor's Safety and Health Conference cancels agreement
"The labor situation at the Anchorage Sheraton has resulted in an unacceptable risk to the success of the Governor's Safety and Health Conference" - per a letter canceling the State's agreement with the hotel.
Press conference Friday on illegal firing of four Sheraton Anchorage workers (press release)
UNITE HERE Local 878 will hold a press conference at 12:15 PM outside the 4th & F Street offices of the National Labor Relations Board to discuss the Sheraton Anchorage's illegal firing of four rank & file members for engaging in protected union activity.
Also posted in Guest blogger, Social justice Tagged hotel workers, press release, Remington Hotels, Sheraton Anchorage, UNITE HERE Local 878 Leave a comment
Sheraton Anchorage illegally fires four workers
The Sheraton Anchorage has illegally fired four workers for engaging in protected union activity. The Sheraton is one of two hotels -- the other being the Anchorage Hilton -- under boycott for unfair labor practices & refusal to bargain in good faith.
Also posted in Social justice Tagged Columbia Sussex, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Remington Hotels, Sheraton Anchorage, UNITE HERE Local 878 Leave a comment
Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world
One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
Also posted in Cold, Long Dark Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations, corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, science fiction, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing 1 Comment
Money as "free speech": Colbert, Maddow, & me
Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED -- & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations.
Posted in Polis Tagged Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, Daughter Number Three (blog), democracy, Democratic Party, free speech, good government bad government, health care reform, political parties, psychopathy, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party, The Colbert Report (TV), U.S. Supreme Court 2 Comments
Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons
Sign the Motion to Amend: part of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy's campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood. It's time to take democracy back.
Government by psychopathy
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had granted the fake-persons known as corporations vast new powers of "free speech" by which to further corrupt American democracy.
Posted in Polis Tagged Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API), Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, diabetes, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, free speech, GMO (genetically modified organisms & foods), good government bad government, Haiti, Jim Gottstein, Joel Bakan, Monsanto, natural disasters, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychopathy, Shaun of the Dead (movie), The Corporation (book and film), U.S. Supreme Court, zombies, Zyprexa 5 Comments
Shark (a story for Haiti)
"Shark" is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres' Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.
Also posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo, Short fiction Tagged Crossed Genres, Doctors without Borders, earthquake, Haiti, Lambi Fund of Haiti, NaNoWriMo 2007, natural disaster, Rainbow World Fund, Red Cross, science fiction, writing, Yéle Haiti 4 Comments
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Book review