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- Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
Blog Post http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5512/as_milwaukees_economy_fails_how_can_public_schools_succeed/ -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
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- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
Blog Post Dems show pre-existing condition: compulsion for disastrous concessions
The Democratic healthcare reform effort has been gasping for air, as Art Levine suggested in his recent post.
But healthcare reform certainly won't be resuscitated if Democrat -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
Blog Post wrokinginthesetimes.com post for Jan. 26, 2010
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- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
Blog Post Reflections on the Democrats' stunning loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat -
- Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
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- Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010
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- Friday, Jan 08, 2010
Blog Post http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5392/sense_of_economic_rights_fuels_overseas_sit-downs/
In These Times blog on overseas sitdown strikes and an account of 1954 sit-down in Brooklyn by UE Blog Post http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5392/sense_of_economic_rights_fuels_overseas_sit-downs/
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- Thursday, Jan 07, 2010
Blog Post From workinginthesetimes.com. LINK:http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5355/one_year_after_republic_why_didnt_occupation_bring_revolt_to_u.s/
Part II of reflections of the impact of the Republic Doors and Windows sit-down -
- Saturday, Dec 19, 2009
ZNet Article Labor struggle -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
Blog Post The hidden history of post-WWII sitdown strikes in US. -
- Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009
Blog Post Labor analysts argue--contrary to some prominent reform advocates --that the Senate Leadership bill will make healthcare far from affordable. -
- Sunday, Dec 13, 2009
Blog Post Insightful interview plus great cartoon by legendary cartoonist Bil Mauldin -
- Friday, Dec 11, 2009
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- Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
Blog Post Reflections on the dire situation facing working families--this is tme for action, not ambivalence -
- Thursday, Dec 03, 2009
Blog Post Reflections on the murder of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark 40 years ago. Blog Post Rrflections on new CBO report claiming cost savings for ordinary Americans. -
- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
Blog Post Workinginthestimes.com blog on the role of Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, his obstructionist role on healthcare, and labor's efforts to gain accountability from "pro-labor" elected officials. -
- Thursday, Nov 26, 2009
Blog Post Part II of piece looking at how weak and faulty health reform may harm DEms in 2010. Blog Post Part II of piece looking at how weak and faulty health reform may harm DEms in 2010. -
- Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009
Blog Post Part I : workinginthesetimes.com piece on severe inadequacies of Dems' health bills and their message, and how they may affect the 2010 mid-term elections -
- Monday, Nov 23, 2009
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- Friday, Nov 20, 2009
Blog Post The insanity of the Bush Administration ion 9/11 Blog Post The healthcare reform mess and implications for 2010 -
- Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
ZNet Article Reflections on labor and Nov., 1999 Battle of Seattle -
- Friday, Nov 13, 2009
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- Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009
Blog Post Panic in Detorit: my In These Times blog on Detroit -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Blog Post My Workinginthesetimes.com blog piece on how progressive like Alan Grayson are undermined when they are to re-define issues in striking terms. -
- Thursday, Oct 29, 2009
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Roger Bybee's Bio Info: I've recently been invited to write a twi... moreI've recently been invited to write a twice-weekly blog in In Thesse Times, appearing Tuesdays and Thursdays (go to www.inthesetimes.com and flick the In These Times Working link at the top of the page) I'm now a full-time freelance writer, with my immediate aim complete a book on corporate media coverage of globalization (tentatively titled The Giant Sucking Sound: How Corporate Media Swallowed the Myth of Free Trade.) I write frequently for Z, Extra!, The Progressive Populist, Madison's Isthmus alternative weekly, and a variety of publications including Yes!, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus, and several websites. My work specializes in corporate globalization, labor, and healthcare reform...
I've been a progressive activist since the age of about 17, when I became deeply affected by the anti-war and civil rights movements. I entered college at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee just days after watching the Chicago police brutalize anti-war demonstrators at the Democratic Convention of 1968. I was active in a variety of "student power" and anti-war activities, highlighted by the May, 1970 strike after the Nixon's invastion of Cambodia and the massacres at Kent State and Jackson State. My senior year was capped by Nixon's bombing of Haiphong Harbor and the occupation of a university building, all in the same week I needed to finish 5-6 term papers to graduate, which I managed somehow.
My wife Carolyn Winter, whom I met in the Wisconsin Alliance, and I have been together since 1975, getting officially married 10/11/81. Carolyn, a native New Yorker, has also been active for social justice since her youth (she attended the famous 1963 Civil Rights march where Dr. King gave his "I have a dream speech"). We have two grown children, Lane (with wife Elaine and 6-year-old grandson Zachary) living in Chicago and Rachel (who with her husband Michael just had a new baby girl Talia Ruth on June 30) living in Asbury Park, NJ. My sister Francie lives down the block from me.
I'm a native of the once-heavily unionized industrial city of Racine, Wis. (which right-wingers sneeringly labeled "Little Moscow" during the upheavals of the 1930's), and both my grandfathers were industrial workers and Socialists. On my father's side, my grandfather was fired three times for Socialist or union activity. His family lost their home at one point during the Depression. My mom's father was a long-time member of UAW Local 72 at American Motors, where he worked for more than 30 years. Coming from impoverished families, my parents met through a very low-cost form of recreation: Racine's Hiking Club.
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