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Thatcher without Thatcherism – A film review

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January 21, 2012
Thatcher without Thatcherism – A film review

It seems an appropriate time to release The Iron Lady, a film that promises to review the life and times of Britain’s first female prime minister, the redoubtable Margaret Thatcher. That’s Baroness Thatcher, if you please.  Regrettably filmmaker Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) gives us a watered-down version of Thatcher. Instead of providing a no-holds-barred...
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San Francisco Days – A Travel Essay

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January 3, 2012
San Francisco Days – A Travel Essay

Sami Sunchild seemed discouraged as she looked out the front window of the Red Victorian, her “Living Peace Museum” on upper Haight St. in San Francisco. Bargain-priced T-shirts lined the window sill all of them emblazoned with Sami’s colourful versions of the peace symbol. Behind her posters shouting peace slogans adorned one wall. Outside,...
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The Innocence of Joe Hill – A Radio Labour podcast

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December 5, 2011
The Innocence of Joe Hill – A Radio Labour podcast

Since he was shot by a Utah firing squad on November 19, 1915, people have debated the guilt or innocence of storied protest singer-songwriter Joe Hill. Now, with The Man Who Never Died, a new book by William M. Adler, published by Bloomsbury in New York, we finally have the answer. The innocence of...
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Lefty’s Legacy, Margaret’s Hope – A Feature Article

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November 14, 2011
Lefty’s Legacy, Margaret’s Hope – A Feature Article

SFU alumna Margaret Morgan (MA’76) and her husband, left-wing radical Richard Ernest “Lefty” Morgan, were life-long learners, educators, and activists, so it seems appropriate that SFU’s research centre for labour studies should be named the Morgan Centre for Labour Studies. Many alumni from SFU’s “bad old days” in the late 1960s would probably agree...
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The Innocence of Joe Hill

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October 28, 2011
The Innocence of Joe Hill

William M. Adler, The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011). Since he was shot by a Utah firing squad on November 19, 1915, people have debated the guilt or innocence of storied protest songwriter and singer Joe Hill. Now, with a...
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Moneyball hits a homer

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October 18, 2011
Moneyball hits a homer

My wife is not, decidedly and emphatically not, a sports fan. She’d rather watch her garden grow, which it was slow to do this past late-starting summer, than watch a baseball game…even a World Series game. So, when she agreed to join me for a showing of the new movie Moneyball, I was surprised....
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Street Rhythms – A Photographic Journey

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October 11, 2011
Street Rhythms – A Photographic Journey

I call this a photographic journey because in it I share many of my most memorable moments on the road from small villages and slums of South America and Africa to big cities of Asia, Europe and North America. There are photographs of ordinary people from many walks of life. Here you will see...
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Switching from Credo

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October 6, 2011
Switching from Credo

Ever notice how the System can bite you on the ass even when you think you’ve found a way to beat it…at least temporarily? Recently I thought I had found one sure way and I’ve got the bite marks to prove it. When I saw an ad the progressive magazine Mother Jones inviting me...
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Switching to Credo II

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September 14, 2011

In a recent blog post, I praised Credo, the mobile phone service that bills itself as “America’s only progressive phone company.” The post subsequently appeared on www.labourstart.org, the global site for progressive labour activists. After a brief appearance on LS, the editors removed the piece and kindly advised me that they had had a...
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Switching to Credo

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August 23, 2011
Switching to Credo

I just switched cell phone accounts from Verizon, a major American service carrier, to Credo, “America’s only progressive phone company.” Yes, you read correctly, and Credo tries hard to live up to this claim by support progressive causes through online petitions and by offering us a chance to stop supporting the big often anti-union...
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