by Leo Gerard | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 28, 2011 | Blog
The nightmare for far too many is Cyborgs. The public fears HAL, the 2001 Space Odyssey computer that killed astronauts rather than forfeit its objective. So terrified of the sentient machine, citizens overlook the allegory. The soft-spoken, reasonable-sounding HAL...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 11, 2011 | Blog
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his crew of country club conservatives this week brutalized the nation’s democratic traditions to secure legislation demanded by big corporations and billionaire conservative financiers like the Koch brothers – legislation stripping...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 7, 2011 | Blog
Not like Valentine’s Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Mother’s Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Women’s Day is about equality and autonomy. The first commemoration occurred on March 19, 1911, a time when most governments...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he...
