Tony Gloeggler: Minimum Wages
He’d talk about the summer
he worked behind a counter,
slicing meat, creating fully
loaded heroes like works of art.
Norman Solomon: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
Corporate-friendly approaches by the Democratic Party set the stage for Trump’s faux “populism” as an imagined solution to the discontent that the corporatism of the Democrats had helped usher in.
Ryan Eckes: memo for labor
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from … Continue reading
Julia Conley: AOC Says Democrats Must Be ‘Brawlers for the Working Class’ to Counter Trumpism
The Democratic Party must abandon its allegiance to the billionaire class, the congresswoman asserted.
Joseph Bathanti: High Mass
Winter Sundays,
when my father was on strike from steel,
he and my mother woke late,
then rose and prepared for high mass at Saints Peter and Paul.
Aru Shiney-Ajay: To Confront Trump and the Climate Crisis, Democrats Must Stand Up for Working People
Taking on corporate power and putting workers at the center of the party’s agenda is the best defense against the divide-and-conquer strategy of the populist right. That means backing policies … Continue reading
Joseph Bathanti: Steady Daylight
Today in Heaven,
my father turned 105.
Finally working steady daylight
Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders respond to the 2024 election
We will continue to fight for each other.
Baron Wormser: The System
Humankind never has been very aware of the consequences of their group actions, perhaps because large groups, in particular, are inherently thoughtless.
Corrine Clegg Hales: Her Husband Wants Her Back
Marge has run again, hiding out
at one neon motel after another
with her three small children.
Sandy Solomon: Casual Labor
The man at the front door wants work,
any job. Hand on the knob, I start
to turn him down, to swing the door’s weight
to, but then I consider my mother’s mother.
Fred Shaw: Comfort
Without warning, the busboy died
in his bed after school, the genes of his heart
finished ticking toward failure.
Mel Packer: The Bend on the River Road from Homestead
A falling down, bullet-pocked sheet metal wall
Once erected to mark the edges of the
South Side Jones and Laughlin steel mill
Paul Buchheit: The 50-Year Takeaway From Middle-Class America
We should be demanding the same benefits enjoyed by less wealthy but more progressive nations.
