“Tap It”, The NSA’s Brand Spankin’ New Slow Jam
Posted on June 14, 2013 in Videos
Perfect vibes for summertime. Police states never sounded so smoooooth.
Meet The Billionaires Who Run Wal-Mart
Posted on June 14, 2013 in Articles
The Article: Always Low Wages: Meet the Billionaires Who Run Wal-Mart by in Josh Eidelson in The Nation.
The Text: This week Walmart shareholders will gather in the retail giant’s Arkansas backyard and re-elect a board of directors charged with guiding the company over the coming years. Walmart’s board—rife with billionaires and industry titans—has recently become a lightning rod for company critics. During their lengthy and high-profile business careers, several board members have faced allegations—from worker exploitation to financial malfeasance—that parallel those facing Walmart itself.
Over the past year, labor activists have targeted board members with dossiers on the Internet and protests around the country, from a hunger strike and vigil by guest workers outside Michele Burns’s New York mansion, to demonstrators placed along the route of a Bay Area marathon to shout messages at Greg Penner as he ran towards the finish line. Over the past week, striking retail workers from the union-backed group OUR Walmart have staged a series of board-focused protests, including one at Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s Palo Alto mansion, and another outside her penthouse atop the San Francisco Four Seasons hotel.
While Walmart’s shareholder meeting won’t kick off until Friday, strikers are already in town. This week they’ll try to win over some of the workers flown to Arkansas by management, and to draw shareholders’ and reporters’ attention to OUR Walmart’s allegations of illegal retaliation and their demands regarding Walmart’s working conditions. They’ll also work to shine light on recent company controversies regarding reported bribery in Mexico and factory deaths in Bangladesh.
An Animated History Of Poverty
Posted on June 13, 2013 in Videos
“What we have is poverty located at the very center of the operation of the system, as the engine of the system…When that happens, we begin to perceive poverty as something natural, something inevitable, something that we will never be able to rid ourselves of.”
If The NSA Did Children’s Literature
Posted on June 13, 2013 in Images and Political Cartoons
Other titles by the subversive, intrusive publishing house include “Oh, the Places You’ll Go for Political Asylum”, “Too Curious George” and “Harriet the NSA Spy”.
