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Bob Simpson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
So who is this guy? Well, my name is Bob "Bobbo" Simpson. I am a web production geek based out of Oak Park Illinois. I work for Carol Simpson DesignWorks with my partner Estelle Carol as well as for WebTrax Studio which has a bunch of cool people associated with it. I mostly do work for unions, non-profit groups, social advocacy organizations and educational institutions.
I was born in Washington DC and grew up in ... [More]
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- All You Need is Love and Some Pride at Work
[News-and-Society:Politics] I'll bet you didn't know that some of the biggest unions in the USA have come out in favor of marriage equality. That's right, teachers, government workers, communications workers, service workers, farmworkers, hotel workers and needle trades workers have all lent their voices to the right of two people to marry, whatever their sexual orientation.
- Repeat After Me - We're Electing a President, Not a Messiah
[News-and-Society:Politics] So Barack Obama is shedding some of his "progressive" stances. Remember that Barack Obama is a South Side Chicago politician. Veering to the right after starting out on the left is a time honored Windy City tradition.
- Free to Choose Terrorism
[News-and-Society:Politics] On February 7, 2007, Carmen Cecilia Santana Romana, a leader of a Columbian agricultural workers union was murdered in her home that she shared with her 3 children and her husband Hernan Correa Miranda, who was also a union leader. Carmen Cecilia Santa Romana was among the over 2500 union activists killed in Columbia since 1986. Most have been killed by paramilitary death squads with close ties to the Columbian military. The US government has lavished millions on that military.
- Maryland in the Days of Jim Crow
[Reference-and-Education] As a kid and well into my college years, going to YMCA Camp Letts near the Chesapeake Bay was one of my central life experiences. One of those experiences was confronting Dixie style segregation. YMCA Camp Letts sits at the end of a peninsula jutting out into the Rhode River near Edgewater, Maryland.
- The Souls of White Folk
[News-and-Society:Politics] I attended my first Black History class in 1968 at the University of Maryland (UM). The class came about because black students demanded it in that tumultuous year. They were supported by a small but significant number of white students.
- Boomers to the Barricades
[News-and-Society] "It's changin' out there. Just like last time. There's a storm comin' Harry.
- No Exit - Our Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants
[News-and-Society:Politics] In Jean-Paul Sarte's play, No Exit, 3 people are locked in a room together forever. Eventually they figure out that they are in hell and this is their punishment. If being locked in a room with 2 other people is hell, what do you call it when the room is on fire and you can't get out?
- The Fight to Free the Charleston 5
[Book-Reviews:Economics] On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5 by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger. Monthly Review Press: 240 pages, 2008. It's a sobering and even embarrassing moment for the US labor movement which is now down to about 8% of the private sector workers. Those who romanticize organized labor based on college history classes or nostalgic folksong fests need to remember that solidarity always begins with a hope....not a certainty.
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