by Tim Wilkins | Aug 27, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Can Business Really Put People Before Profits? Last Monday, 181 corporate CEOs who belong to the Business Roundtable signed a pledge saying they think greed isn’t so good, after all. These CEOs declared that corporations must demonstrate...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 23, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati We Need What Canada Has: Economic Security South of the border, here in the United States, we Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 22, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Connie Huynh It’s Time to Put #PeopleOverPharma From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People’s Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand Congress and Trump put #PeopleOverPharma profits. “They’re jacking up...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 21, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE State Rep. Mari Cordes (D-VT) Organizing From The Inside In Vermont, we’re a citizen legislature, so we are full of community members for whom being in the General Assembly is not their primary job. Some folks are retired; I’m a registered nurse. I was...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 20, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm All Is Not Lost Reeling from reports on our climate catastrophe, I took a break to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 19, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway ‘New’ NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of Border When an American corporation, GM or Nabisco or Carrier, builds a factory in Mexico, NAFTA protects the company from tariffs when it imports the Mexican-made cars or Oreos or furnaces back...
