Is mainstream media fair to populist progressive movements?

Occupy Chicago enters its second week on the streets

I dropped in on the Occupy Chicago demonstrators on Tuesday to check on their morale after spending mostof my Saturday with them last weekend. As the occupation of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park begins to enter its third week, the small but spirited occupation of the corner of Jackson and LaSalle, mere feet in front of the [...]

On Friday, thousands in Chicago will stand in the streets. Some will shout, hold banners and placards, beat drums, and put their bodies on the line to fight for a better world. All will raise their voices in unison, with cries that will carry through the glass castles of commerce, over the spires of industry, [...]

It might be odd to say and seemingly unconnected, but when I consider what’s happening on Wall Street, or the halls of government, or the streets of any number of cities across the world, I can’t help but think back to our missions to the moon in the 60’s. We had a clear goal, a [...]

I accidentally decided to take slightly more than a month of from posting here. Plenty of things happened I would have liked to have written about, but for a little while, everything became overwhelming. Summertime is the perfect time to take a few weeks off to reflect and center oneself, get a grip, have some [...]

The showdown over the budget and the debt ceiling continues to drag on and Congress is still attempting to cut spending down to nothing but defense, tax breaks for the wealthy and their own salaries. While politicians continue to rail against taxes and spending and the media hypes the “gang of six”, it seems that [...]

Republican Senator says that the poor don’t do enough to deal with the deficit.

Our latest airport security scare is like the rest – mostly about fear.

Against Me at the Metro on June 17th 2011

A group of 81 major corporations believe that public knowledge of what their CEOs make in respect to the average worker is “useless” information.

1) I could care less about Anthony Weiner’s dong. I sincerely wish this kind of thing was more important to Americans. Sadly, sex scandals get more press and page views than corporate malfeasance, non sexy political shenanigans, two wars, and other real issues combined. 2) I even feel the same way about right wing politicians. [...]