Additional F.C.C. Comments Submitted by Jim Hickey, 9/11/2014, in Regard to Docket Number 14-28—Protecting & Promoting the Open Internet The following is an invitation to dialogue that takes advantage of the opportunity of the FCC window for Net Neutrality comments.…
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Democracy’s Death Without Open Communication
These are the remarks to the FCC of Chapter Chair Jim Hickey. They reflect one NWU member’s thinking about net neutrality. All members might ponder submitting their own ideas. Such an upsurge would have to serve both the Union and…
From Barkhad Abdi to Krishna’s Command About Duty
EXAMINING A RECENT ‘OH-HOW-SAD’ HOLLYWOOD MOMENT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE MULTIPLE UNDERLYING ISSUES THAT IT RAISES PREFATORY REMARKS Should anyone ever doubt the profound and multifaceted interconnection of everything, he would only need to look at This Humble…
Who Lost Chattanooga? The UAW Failure at VW
By Steve Benton(At-Large Steering Committee member from Atlanta, Georgia) Many postmortems regarding the union organizing failure at the VW plant in Chattanooga have focused on the aggressive anti-union resistance that swarmed into town ahead of the election to undermine what…
Like Trees Standing by the Water…
Many folks with whom I’ve spoken over the past few days, in the parlance of the hills around here, have “been mad enough to eat iron and spit nails.” The loss of a shot at Union representation in Chattanooga—just over…
If Copying Is Wrong, What’s a Copyright?
An Initial Brief None other than William Blackstone, storied British jurist and intellectual progenitor of much of the contemporary nexus of ownership and production, had a very astute insight. “There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages…
