Author: Glenn (Freedom of Movement) Robinson

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TO FAST FOOD CEOS: YOUR WORKERS SHOULDN’T NEED FOOD STAMPS (petition)

  I know I’ve posted quite a few petitions about fast food workers and the minimum wage. I do so because I think it’s so important that people who work hard get treated with respect and dignit…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

If companies do not pay their workers fairly, then us, the tax payers, will make up the difference in their salary by subsidizing the cost of their grocery bill with food stamps and the cost of their health care bill with — subsidized health care payments.

 

It seems like a popular business model in the U.S. is to pay your emplyees so low that the government picks up part of the cost of taking care of the emloyee’s basic needs.

See on illuminatebytanya.wordpress.com

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Congress’ border efforts are bunk, say border sheriffs

“The bill passed by the Senate in July attempts to solve the problem of illegal immigration with a $46 billion “border surge,” adding 20,000 new Border Patrol agents, and $3 billion in new monitoring technology. But sheriffs policing the border say that misses the mark.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My tax dollars at ‘work’ again, propping up xenophobia.

 

On the positive side though, this might reduce the number of deaths in the desert.

 

@getgln

See on www.usatoday.com

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Tainos

“The Taínos (tah-EE-noes), commonly called the Arawak Indians, were the main people who lived in the Caribbean when Columbus arrived in 1492. They are the ones he called “Indians”, thinking he was in Asia.”

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“Spanish genocide and disease wiped out 85% of the Tainos. It shocked Europe, even back then. And yet, despite all that – or, rather, because of all that – the Spanish debated whether the Tainos had souls in the Valladolid Debate (1550-1551).”
See on abagond.wordpress.com

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History Repeats Itself, Why I Study History, and History as a Science

There I said it. History. Repeats. Itself. I’ll say it again. History. Repeats. Most historians balk at this notion with a series of well-intended but nonetheless vehement objections. In my experie…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Click through to check the cartoon about immigration:

“History Marches on; Nativism Marches in Place”

 

@getgln

See on andrewpegoda.com

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Women Sue for Humiliating Vaginal Search From State Troopers (Video)

UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FVZEpYiLI “A Texas woman and her niece are suing a pair of Texas state troopers and the director of the Texas Depart…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Like Cenk Uygur says, what’s the greater violation, being felt up and raped or possessing a joint of marijuana?

 

The is another example of the “freedom and liberty” we have in the U.S.

The police have the “freedom and liberty” to violate citizens.

 

 

See on www.youtube.com