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Simpson: The new Chicago school budget strangles public education
Blog Post, July, 14 2012
Bob Simpson
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The 2013 Chicago Public Schools(CPS) budget received a resounding thumbs down at a community forum held at Malcolm X College on the West Side the evening of July 11. Over 200 people filled the auditorium to listen to an explanation of the budget f...
Simpson: Medicaid for all poor people? Don’t count on it.
Blog Post, July, 05 2012
Bob Simpson
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State governments across the USA have been cutting Medicaid and health care-related funding faster than Smithfield butchers hogs. These programs were supposed to help low income people, many of whom already suffer from the poor health that often c...
Simpson: Chicago Nurses Say: We Need a Robin Hood Tax!
Blog Post, June, 21 2012
Bob Simpson
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Easily recognized by their red scrubs along with their Robin Hood hats and masks, NNU members described the Robin Hood tax in signs that read,”It’s Not a Tax On the People. It’s a Tax For the People.”
Simpson: Big Banks Slam the Brakes on Public Transit
Blog Post, June, 11 2012
Bob Simpson
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What subprime mortgages did to the housing market and what payday loans do to hard-pressed working class families, credit default swaps are doing to transit systems. No wonder transit activists were chanting “Banks got bailed out. We got sold out”...
Simpson: The Killing Towers of the US Telecom Industry
Blog Post, June, 04 2012
Bob Simpson
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A total of 100 people died falling from communication towers between 2003-2011. Of these, 50 fell from cell phone towers. The death rate for tower climbers is about 10 times that of construction workers.
Simpson: Rahm, you bungled the whole NATO weekend
Blog Post, May, 27 2012
Bob Simpson
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It's been a week since the NATO protests and I've been thinking about them on and off, especially after reading a few Crain's Chicago Business articles that questioned whether the whole shebang was really good for the city and its businesses.
Simpson: Do Nurses Have an Rx for Our Ailing Economy?
Blog Post, May, 27 2012
Bob Simpson
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They became a Chicago media sensation after they streamed into Chicago’s Daley Plaza on the morning of May 18, wearing the now familiar National Nurses United (NNU) red scrubs. Many of them had the green caps and masks you've seen in nearly every ...
Simpson: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Entrance Blockaded As Protesters Criticize Huge Tax Break
Blog Post, May, 24 2012
Bob Simpson
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Seniors, people with disabilities and health care workers blocked the front entrance to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) on Wednesday, May 23 around 9:30 am, as well the adjacent Jackson and LaSalle Streets.
Simpson: Caterpillar Machinists Strike Is Two Weeks Old & Holding Steady
Blog Post, May, 15 2012
Bob Simpson
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The Caterpillar workers of IAM Lodge 851 did not go on strike May 1 on a careless whim. They clearly believe they can win against a viciously anti-union company.
Simpson: Addie Wyatt 1924-2012: A Life of Christian Faith & Labor Solidarity
Blog Post, May, 04 2012
Bob Simpson
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How does a person of faith live a purposeful life in a world gone wrong? Where does a moral vision come from, a vision that can thrive despite the inevitable blows that fall upon it?
Simpson: Occupy Mental Health! Save Chicago’s Clinics
Blog Post, April, 18 2012
Bob Simpson
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While riding the Blue Line downtown to the April 16 Monday morning press conference by Chicago’s Mental Health Movement, I couldn’t help but reflect on Mayor Rahm’s Emanuel’s obsessive-compulsive disorder. He is obsessive about funneling money to ...
Simpson: The Time I was busted by an Alabama State Trooper---In Maryland
Blog Post, April, 11 2012
Bob Simpson
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For George Corley Wallace, his 1972 Presidential campaign swing through Maryland was one seriously bad trip. He was met by riots in Hagerstown and Frederick, by loud counter demonstrations at Wheaton Plaza and Capital Plaza near DC and was serious...
Simpson: Occupy Transit! Transit Workers and the Occupy Movement Team Up
Blog Post, April, 05 2012
Bob Simpson
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Calling mass transit “a genuine civil rights issue,” the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents transit workers across the nation, joined with the Occupy Movement, community organizations and transit riders to demand a revitalization of...
Simpson: Hey Rahm Emanuel: Libraries Are Sacred Spaces
Blog Post, April, 02 2012
Bob Simpson
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For the Chicago Public Library system, its deterioration is proceeding with death by a thousand budget cuts, cuts coming from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office on the 5th floor of City Hall, following up on cuts made by his predecessor Hizzoner Richard ...
Simpson: The Social Worker and the Massacre: A Chicago Labor Story
Blog Post, March, 21 2012
Bob Simpson
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It was corporate gangsterism, worse than than the 1927 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre perpetrated by the Al Capone mob. The 1937 Memorial Day Massacre was the killing not of rival mobsters, but of American working people.
Simpson: The War Against Economic Recovery
Blog Post, March, 11 2012
Bob Simpson
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Breaking unions or smashing organizing campaigns pushes down wages and reduces pensions, making it more difficult for people to buy products and services. This lack of spending holds back an already weak economic recovery and threatens to unleash ...
Simpson: Dr. Beatrice Tucker: Home Birth for Chicago's Working Class
Blog Post, March, 01 2012
Bob Simpson
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If there were a Nobel Prize for Obstetrics, Dr. Beatrice “Tucks” Tucker and her longtime partner Dr. Harry “Bennie” Benaron would have won one as leaders of the Chicago Maternity Center. From its founding in 1932 until its doors closed in 1973, t...
Simpson: America’s Ports: The Place Where Old Trucks Go To Die
Blog Post, February, 18 2012
Bob Simpson
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Trucking deregulation has made a mockery of the whole idea of a free market. To say with a straight face that an immigrant truck driver can negotiate on equal terms with a shipping giant like Goldman Sachs’ SSA Marine is ludicrous.
Simpson: Alice Peurala: A Woman of Steel
Blog Post, February, 10 2012
Bob Simpson
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The fires of steelmaking burned all along the southern shores of Lake Michigan when Alice Peurala entered US Steel's South Works in 1953. Today most of those fires have gone out and with them the thousands of jobs that were once the economic suppo...
Simpson: Hard Work Deserves More Respect
Blog Post, January, 25 2012
Bob Simpson
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The warehouses of Will County are only a part of a vast supply chain of exploited labor that begins in the 21st century of sweatshops of China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and other developing countries and then goes through the USA to ...
