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...analysis misses a crucial point about living wage movements: their mission doesn’t end with a vote. On paper, Florida has a $6.15 minimum wage. But in reality, wages are constantly being worked out between workers and employers. If workers feel powerless to force their bosses to obey the law, living wage laws frequently aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. That’s why ACORN continues to work with Florida labor unions to ensure that workers receive the living wage to which they are entitled. ACORN has successfully defeated attempts...
...street artists has even parlayed the popularity of their images into design or merchandising businesses. Fifteen years ago, pioneer Shepard Fairey, 35, hit upon what may be the best known of all street-art images, a black-and-white face of the late professional wrestler Andre the Giant with OBEY printed beneath. In a world in which we all feel subordinate to something, it was the ultimate generic image of creepy domination. It's now on T shirts, bags and a belt buckle that has been spotted on Ashton Kutcher. Today Fairey has a graphic-design firm, a gallery space...
...alliances of ?lites have emerged among township officials, companies, high-ranking cadres, village leaders and the hired fists they employ to do their dirty work, and whom farmers call "the black force." These alliances rule by controlling the ways laws are implemented, and through violence. Farmers who don't obey can be fined, beaten, jailed, even killed...
...Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a law of Congress and not a policy of the Department of Defense. Although many, if not most, admirals and generals in the Pentagon may agree with this law, they are required to obey it whether they agree...
...foresight that September 11 exposed as sorely missing from our government, and, as Hurricane Katrina showed, is still missing today. The biggest problems that now face America aren’t of the textbook variety: enemies do not identify themselves with bright red uniforms, nor do natural catastrophes necessarily obey rules of prediction. Until the administration chooses to confront this truth, it condemns itself to the same pattern of complacency, negligence, and rhetorical bandaging that by now has become its signature...