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The Land of the Greed and the Home of the Child-Haters
by C. A. Matthews
There’s nothing to be proud of living in a country that openly and unapologetically hates children. All children.
For
those who are totally clueless (or pretending to be) the following
articles will enlighten you. Once you’ve read them, you will no longer
be able to claim ignorance of the genocide happening in Gaza and
America’s involvement in it. You will understand why the rest of the
world feels nothing but disgust whenever they spy the Star Spangled
Banner waving in the breezealongside an Israeli flag.
...You didn’t think I was going to leave out domestic
child abuse/endangerment articles, did you? If the US government is
willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on sending aid to
Israel to bomb, burn, and maim Palestinian children (and then won’t even
let them into the country for treatment), why wouldn’t it be willing to
not spend any money at home to improve American kids’ health and educational opportunities?
Why
wouldn’t the US government spend billions on hiring masked vigilantes
under the guise of ICE to terrorize and rip families apart who are
looking for asylum? Why wouldn’t the US government want to destroy the
First Amendment and censor protests against these horrific American
policies? It does these things because it can and it does get away with them.
And why? Because America hates children...
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A Terrible Tale of Voter Suppression. (Plus "A Letter to Kamala.")
by C. A. Matthews
Living with a mystery series writer (check out my husband’s Veronica Nash series), I watch many (and I mean many)
mystery movies, TV series, and the like. I’ve never been the biggest
fan of mysteries since some feature “copaganda” with their noble-minded
police detective sleuths showing off how damn smart they are. Putting
that fault aside, I watch mysteries in order to learn more about how to
plot a story as well as learn interesting science facts that
occasionally pop up. I find an interesting twist in the tale or an
outright surreal ending (like in a Twilight Zone episode) enjoyable, too.
Unfortunately,
many mysteries are poorly plotted. If I can guess “whodunnit” within
the first ten minutes of a mystery movie/TV show (or first chapter of a
novel), then it’s safe to say it’s crap and needs a re-write. I mean,
how the heck should anyone figure out the mystery so quickly? Mediocre
mysteries are the worse. There’s no use reading the rest of the book or
watching the next hour and half of silly red herrings if you know who
the murderer/kidnapper/thief is already. I’ve got better things to do
with my time.
Which
brings me to what I do with my time these days—I try and solve real
life mysteries of the political kind. In this season of post-election
blues in the US, I submit for your approval the following: The Mystery of the Missing Votes or A Terrible Tale of Voter Suppression.
In New Jersey, Green candidate for Congress Ben Taylor
was ahead of his duopoly competitors with 50,000+ votes, but a second
later the screen said that Taylor was behind and had only 3,000 votes.
What happened to his lead? Did his votes all die a mysterious death?
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"A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice." --Chris Hedges
I
didn’t hear about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio,
until the day after it occurred. Little was mentioned on our local
news stations, located
on the opposite side of the same state. Even then, there was just a
brief account:
“A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in a small town near
the Pennsylvania state line.” My
husband and I watched the mainstream TV news story and didn’t
think it could be too bad since no deaths or injuries were reported. Ohio has thousands of small towns. It has
thousands of miles of railroad tracks crisscrossing it. We
used to live in a small Ohio town with a “triangle” of railroad
crossings. These things
happen.
Three days later, the railroad
owners, Norfolk Southern, decided to burn off the hazardous chemicals
that had leaked from
some of the derailed cars. These cars carried
vinyl chloride, butyl
acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl.
When vinyl chloride
burns, it attaches itself to the
water molecules
in the air and creates hydrochloric acid. It
then rains down on everything and everyone in its path. You might be
familiar with its common name, acid rain. Burning vinyl chloride also creates phosgene, a toxic colorless gas that killed many soldiers in World War I.
Mainstream media didn't tell us about how the townspeople
were harmed by the chemicals burning, but independent journalists on
the ground told a
grim story. They paint
a very frightening picture of how toxic chemicals are
affecting the air, water, and soil. They inform us of wildlife, fish,
pets, and livestock that
are sick or
dead. Townspeople
describe on camera how their lungs felt like they were on fire, how they became
nauseous and vomited or suffered from diarrhea, headaches, severe
nose bleeds, difficulty breathing, and skin rashes after authorities told them there was nothing to fear from the
chemicals being burned, their drinking water supply was fine, and
they all could
safely return to their homes.
Some have described what
they’ve seen in East
Palestine, Ohioas an “American
Chernobyl.”Nuclear
radiation lasts for
millennia,
but hazardous wastes pollution can last just as long through many human lifetimes
in the forms of cancers
and gene mutations passed
on from one generation to another.
“They chemically
nuked East Palestine,” said one observer. Yes, they really
did.
The most important thing mainstream media
didn’t tell us is that
the
derailed chemical
cars set on fire
weren’t a “controlled
burn.” There’s no such term as
a “controlled burn”
according to a hazmat worker interviewed on a Youngstown area TV
news station. They’re
called “prescribed burns” by professionals because they know fire can never be totally controlled.No
government official or agency
gave Norfolk Southern
permission to do a
prescribed burn of the chemicals anyway.
The
railroadCEOs
should have hired
tanker trucks to siphon off the remaining chemicals, none
of which had caught on fire
after the derailment. But that would have taken
time and no small
amount of money hiring enough tanker trucks and hazmat workers to do the
job. Norfolk
Southern chose the burning method because
it was the
cheapest andfastest
way to clean up the mess and get the train cars
out of the way so the
rail line could open again and generate profits.
In other words, the
railroad
went with the quickest, least
expensive, most
environmentally unfriendly to all living things method possible. Why? Because it could.
US Secretary of
Transportation, Pete Buttigeig kept
quiet about the derailment incident for over a week, but told reporters,
“Derailments
happen every day.”
He still
won’t answer questions as to why the Biden Administration hasn’t
reinstated air braking safety procedures that were deregulated under
the Trump Administration. Two years on
and the safety precautions rail
workers have
demanded still haven't been put
into place. These are the same rail workers who where
denied the right to strike and have paid sick days by Congress this past December.
Also, a very hush-hush upcoming court case could have very well played into the federal government's non-response to the train derailment:
In the case against Norfolk Southern, the Biden administration
is siding with the railroad in its conflict with a cancer-stricken
former rail worker. A high court ruling for Norfolk Southern could
create a national precedent limiting where workers and consumers can
bring cases against corporations. FromBiden DOJ Backing Norfolk
Southern’s Bid To Block Lawsuits
With the Biden Administration's backing of this case to block lawsuits, the people harmed in East Palestine and elsewhere might not even be able to sue Norfolk Southern for damages. It seems like the federal government was expecting a disaster like this one to occur and wanted to protect corporations like Norfolk Southern more than seek justice for injured working class people. Never forget that.
At the end of the day, who
pays the price for
this unfortunate derailment and consequent “prescribed burn” of
hazardous chemicals?
Not the CEO of Norfolk Southern, a corporation that made record
profits last year and
even boosted shareholder payouts of
4,500%. Norfolk Southern
also cut their rail employees by 33%, and smaller crews and
less maintenance could
have led to this
train being derailed. But
we’re supposed to feel sympathy for poor ol' Norfolk
Southern, a corporation that pledged to give the entire town of East
Palestine a measly $25,000, or $5 a person, for the “inconvenience” of
breathing in toxic
chemicals and
having their water supply tainted with even
more hazardous wastes
from the burn.
Railroad lines are owned
by private corporations in the US. That concept
is difficult for people
in many other countries to understand. Even
in the United States, highways and bridges
are generally considered public infrastructure paid for and maintained with our tax dollars, but
railroad tracks
are privately owned and operated.
What
the railroads
do with the freight they haul and
how they maintain
their tracks are their
business. It’s all a
private concern of Norfolk Southern even
if their preferred clean up method has put the health and safety of
all life in the Ohio River watershed at
risk.
Cincinnati-area water intake has been shut off, exposing the less than truthful statement made by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine that Ohio River water is safe to drink:
The presence of chemicals from the spill in the Ohio River at any level
is a worrying development. The Ohio River basin drains an area where
approximately 25 million people live, and several cities lie along its
course, including Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, with metro
populations of 2.3 million and 1.4 million, respectively.
Capitalism says, “Privatize the profits and socialize the costs.”The costs will
be "rare forms of liver cancer (hepatic angiosarcoma), primary liver, brain
and lung cancer, which are designated as solid organ tumors. However,
it can also lead to leukemia and lymphomas"
for the people living in East
Palestine and even
further downstream as toxins drain into
creeks and
rivers and fall onto
livestock and farm
fields. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates 3,500 fish have been killed so far by the contaminated runoff after the derailment. But hey! Norfolk Southern made $3.2 billion in profits this past year and are on track to make even more for its shareholders.
Rich people get
richer, a whole lot richer. Who really cares if millions of Rust Belters potentially
have had their lives
and livelihoods cut short?
If
not for the dogged independent journalists, the rest of us might
never have known how many of
our fellow human beings
have been harmed, or
will be harmed, by this toxic chemical burn by Norfolk Southern.
We might never have known how the chemicals traveled
through the air as acid rain and then fell
onto productive
farmland and into
the water supply for
millions. We might
never have known why so many cancers popped up in eastern Ohio,
western Pennsylvania, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia.
Without “indie journos” interviewing the people
harmed by the chemical burn, we would have never known
the extent of this entirely man-made, preventable disaster, now known
to be the largest of its kind in US history.
Railroad companies have one of the biggest lobbyist groups in Washington DC. Private
corporations such
as Norfolk Southern shouldn’t be dictating public policy to US
government officials, but they do. The finger-pointing has begun
and heads should roll for not changing the unsafe regulations in
regard to train car maintenance, train length, and air
braking, but never
fear! Railroad profits
will reign supreme over the public’s safety. They always do.
Without independent journalists we’d
never know why so many suffer because
of capitalism’s dictate:
Privatize the profits and
socialize the costs. Keep
the public in the dark.
But We the People can fight back.
This story is ongoing, and
here’s your assignment as a citizen journalist/activist: Keep an
eye out in the mainstream media for how much (or how little) this
train derailment and consequent chemical burn in East Palestine,
Ohio, is mentioned. Search for stories about the environmental fallout
throughout the eastern US. If very few or only “positive” statements
about how Norfolk
Southern is handling the situation are
made, check out who is buying commercial time
on the network, program, magazine and/or website. If they’re broadcasting ads for Norfolk Southern
and related concerns such
as Big Oil (think diesel engines),
then realize that anything these so-call news anchors are telling
the public
is suspect.
Always follow the money and consider who has the most
to gain or lose by the truth being told or
not told. Just last night on a local TV newscast I caught a "positive" story of how "sorry" the CEO of Norfolk Southern felt about the disaster in East Palestine. Nothing mentioned about the health concerns of the public, just how sorry Mr. Moneybags felt. Mainstream media does a great job covering up for our government's lack of concern for our health and safety, doesn't it?
I encourage you to
get out of your comfort
zone and check out indie podcasters and blogs to see
what else you can learn about unfolding events. Even now class
action suits are starting to form against Norfolk Southern, so keep an ear open to how the current court case blocking such lawsuits against the railroad is going.
How are the people hurt
directly by the toxic chemical burn fighting
back? Can you help them? Can
you spread their message to others? Be
creative.
After this piece I’ll
list article and video links on
this topic and well as a couple of others.
Compare and contrast what “indie journos” are saying against what
the well-paid and well-coiffed “newsreaders” of
the mainstream media outlets (especially TV)
say on a particular
topic. Ask yourself about what is being said. More importantly, ask what is being
left unsaid.
Remember: “Derailments
happen every day.” The
next one could happen
near your home. It could involve train cars full of
hazardous chemicals. Would you like it if they were burned and transformed into a
dark cloud of carcinogens and acid rain that rains
down on you and your neighbors?
And last week’s TRC
posting discussed how an award-winning independent journalist
uncovered the who, how, what, when, where and why of the Nordstream 2
pipeline explosions: Pay For Your Own Wars, Big Oil! Compare and
contrast the mainstream media coverage of the pipelines’ sabotage. What did the MSM journalists originally leave out of their stories about the NordStream? Why did
they avoid investigating deeply into who had the strongest motive to
take out the pipeline and lessen the competition for liquefied
natural gas in Europe? Why did they continually repeat the
US government’s propaganda? What was in it for them to turn a blind eye?
IN FULL DETAIL: They Won’t
Tell You This About Ohio Train Derailment (Video) Caution: contains
images of dead chickens. Richard Medhurst as a Brit gives us good
insights into how American capitalism so readily puts corporate
profits before people’s safety. https://youtu.be/HDFXHYGF7T0
Every
year, there are more than 1,000 derailments in the United States, an
average of around three per day. In only the short time since the
disaster in East Palestine, a derailment occurred in Houston, Texas,
which led to one death, and another in Van Buren Township, Michigan,
which involved the derailment of another chemical car.
The reasons for this high rate of accidents are well-known to
120,000 railroaders in the US. The locomotives, railroads and
workforce have been driven into the ground by years of cost-cutting
by management. Trains have been lengthened to up to three miles long,
controlled by only two people. Because of Precision Scheduled
Railroading and similar attendance policies, workers are often forced
to operate these massive machines with only a couple of hours of
sleep.
The train involved in the derailment in East Palestine, known as
32N or “32 Nasty” among train crews, was long known to be
particularly dangerous.
This has not only endangered railroad workers, but the public as a
whole. But the more the railroads have been driven to the brink of
collapse and the more communities along the railroads are endangered,
the higher the railroads’ profits go up.
The railroad industry is the most profitable industry in America.
Last year, Norfolk Southern reported profits of $3.2 billion, a
record for the company. Rather than investing in infrastructure, let
alone improving the conditions for workers, the company has spent $18
billion over the past five years in stock buybacks and dividends,
that is, handouts to investors. The same pattern is present in all
the major rail companies.
* * *
A deadly toxic spill could pollute the water supply of millions. Let’s make sure the reckless company responsible for this disaster, Norfolk Southern, foots the bill for the clean up!
Last week a toxin-filled freight train slid off the rails spilling poisonous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. But the rail operator responsible, Norfolk Southern, is already trying to dodge responsibility for cleaning up this toxic mess.
The derailed train was carrying five
train-car loads of a cancer-causing chemical called vinyl chloride,
which is linked to an increased risk of rare brain and liver cancers.
Yesterday the Environmental Protection
Agency confirmed the chemical has seeped into the Ohio river basin -
which supplies water to millions. Thousands of fish have been found
dead.
Barely anyone knows that Norfolk Southern is responsible for this terrible disaster
- but if we put the public spotlight on the company and demand it
covers the clean up bill, the company won’t be able to walk away scot
free.
Behind the scenes, panicking Norfolk
Southern execs know that they could be facing eye watering fines and
massive lawsuits - which is why they’re trying to buy off residents with $1000 ‘inconvenience’ checks in return for residents waiving any future claim against the company.
These shady tactics are true to form
for a company that for years has put profit over safety. Norfolk
Southern has slashed jobs and lobbied against better safety measures on
the railways, all the while paying out millions to shareholders.
Railroad Workers United said last week’s tragedy was a disaster years in
the making.
In 2012 a train crashed in Paulsboro,
New Jersey spilling tens of thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride - two
years later over half the residents reported health problems. Five times that amount of vinyl chloride was spilled in East Palestine.
We won’t know the true impact of this
catastrophe for some time but we do know that Norfolk Southern must
publicly commit to covering the full cost.
We’ve taken on some of the biggest
corporate criminals before and won. When Bangladeshi workers lost their
lives at the Rana Plaza garment factory, the Ekō community held global
fashion giant H&M to account.
Now let’s do it again and force this billion-dollar company to pay up.
BREAKING: The @EPA claim that water in Ohio is "safe" to drink is based on only a few tainted lab samples funded by the very rail company that caused the disaster. The EPA apparently never tested the water.
If you think billionaires and massive corporations aren't the problem, think again...
Protecting Our Right To Protest
by C. A. Matthews
Just when you think you can't fall down the rabbit hole into
Alice's Wonderland any farther, your
elected officials will come up with legislation to abridge your rights to protest
and free speech.
I'm not kidding.
Who could joke about something so offensive and so entirely undemocratic?
Who could come up with a law that would make even chalking a protest message on
a sidewalk a felony? Who could come up with a way to make it legal for the cops
to shoot unarmed protesters if they feel the least bit "threatened"?
Our elected officials can--and they have!
Ohio isn't the only state to introduce anti-protesting
legislation, but it's the one I'm most familiar with. There are several bills currently in the Ohio legislature that focus on
curtailing or restricting protesting and free speech. They are Senate Bills 33,
16
and 41
as well as House Bills 22
and 109.
I recently encountered some protesters in Toledo who were speaking out (while
we still can) about protecting our rights to protest. Here's my impression of
where they were coming from and how it differs from my take.
Most of my fellow anti-protesting protesters (you go crazy just
saying that!) weren't happy about their elected representatives supporting these
measures, but they felt sure one thing could turn all of these bills
around. And what one thing is that? Why, voting these naughty politicians out of office.
The only reason these politcos created these anti-protesting bills in the first place, according to one of my
fellow protesters, is because they belong to the Republican Party. It's that simple. To be a Republican is to be anti-free speech and against embarrassing protests, in his opinion. As soon
as "good Democrats" can be put into office and take over these wayward politicians' seats, all
threats to our rights to protest and free speech will simply evaporate like a
light rain on a hot summer's day.
I wish I could be so optimistic.
Alas, I doubt that turning around the overwhelmingly Republican Ohio
House and Senate will automatically kill these anti-protest bills. I wish it could
be that simple. But it isn't.
Why isn't it? You only have to look at who or what is behind these pieces
of legislation to see why they won't simply "go away" when all the bad,
evil, wicked GOPers are voted out of office and replaced with the only other "recognized
establishment party" (the Democrats) in the Buckeye State. (That's a whole
other blog piece in the making. Ohio's current political establishment hates alternative parties so much that it makes it almost impossible for third parties to keep their "recognized" status from election to election.)
The real money and impetus behind Ohio's anti-protesting measures isn't because Republicans hate free speech. It's because the
fossil fuel industry hates free speech and bad publicity more. Big Oil is terrified of protesters shouting,
"People over pipelines!" over each and every mile of pipe they bury into our soil. The fracking industry doesn't care much for
the bad press they get whenever one of their wells or collection ponds leak. Somehow, Ohioans are
supposed to drink petroleum-laden well or river or lake water and
like it and live happily ever after.
Uh-huh. Yeah, like who's really fallen down the rabbit hole here?
Big Agriculture plays a part in all this shutting down of
free speech, too. But I suspect you already know something about that if you've
followed this blog's coverage of the first Rights of Nature Law passed in the
United States, The Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Since both establishment parties--the Republicans and the
Democrats--have been well-awarded by Big Oil, Big Ag, and their lobbyist friends over the years, the
chances that a flip in the Ohio House and Senate to a majority Democratic Party
leadership would make any difference to how these new laws would be passed and enforced
is slim to none. Money talks--and
politicians whose hungry campaign coffers love a big helping of Big Oil dollars
aren't going to tell the fossil fuel industry to shut up and go away.
So we will have to do it.
Calling all activists! This spring and summer our voices must
be heard and our signs and bodies must be seen before it is too late. And start
raising your bail money now. Anti-protest laws mean more arrests. That's the purpose of them. But we have something Big Oil doesn't have--sheer numbers. They can't lock all of us away, all at the same time, can they?
Our elected representatives in Washington DC are also trying to abridge our right to free speech. Watch this interview with a person who was intimidated by the police for a response to a tweet he posted--not his actual tweet (which wasn't threatening) but another person's response to it that was. He was questioned and scared essentially because the tweet wasn't exactly flattering to a certain Congressmember's recent performance. If your elected officials can't be held accountable and take responsibility for their actions, then are you really living in a democracy?
Plastic is accumulating on our beaches and in our oceans. There could be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. Take action now.
Corporations
love plastic. Thanks to the fracking boom, it’s cheap for the fossil
fuel industry to create. So oil and gas companies are pushing plastic
consumption -- including the widespread use of one-use plastics -- to line their pockets.
But
the plastic waste problem has become massive: in the United States 91%
of plastic ends up being thrown away, never recycled. Some of it
ultimately ends up in our oceans, where it harms or kills marine
wildlife.
Call on Congress to protect our planet by supporting the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act.
Demand Congress address the plastic crisis before it overruns our planet.
Plastic
pollution kills over a million marine creatures annually, including
turtles, dolphins, whales, and sea birds. And plastics don’t
disappear. They just break down into smaller and smaller pieces until
they become microplastics.
But plastic also impacts humans. On average, people ingest the equivalent of a credit card each week. That’s right -- if
you’re an average person, you are likely consuming an average of 5
grams of plastic per week. Microplastics can be found in everyday foods
and drinks -- like beer, salt, shellfish and even drinking water!
Tell Congress you do not want to be exposed to more plastic in your food and water. Stop plastic polluters.
Plastic production also worsens the climate crisis. More than 99% of plastic is created from fossil fuels. The emissions from creating plastic could soon reach the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants.
Finally,
our country is one of the worst plastic offenders, which is why
Congress needs to take action. The United States produces the most
plastic waste per capita of any country -- then ships a large portion abroad to countries that are already struggling to maintain their own waste effectively.
Plastic
is polluting our entire planet, from the beaches to the deepest depths
of our oceans. Congress must address this crisis and stop Big Polluters
from destroying our health, land, air, and sea.
Demand the United States break free from plastic and stop the pollution at its source!
Michelle Chan,
VP of programs,
Friends of the Earth
***
We're rapidly approaching the May 1
deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, and President Biden still
has not proposed a plan to fulfill his campaign promise.
War hawks in the foreign policy establishment are trying to dominate media coverage and claim nobody cares about ending the Forever War in an attempt to force President Biden to continue it.
But we have news for them — we
care. There is an overwhelming consensus among veterans and civilian
supporters that we must end the Forever War.
That's why Common Defense is calling on
supporters across the country to write Letters to the Editor to hold
President Biden accountable and show the media there is a grassroots
movement calling for an end to the Forever War.
The
war in Afghanistan has dragged on for nearly 20 years, and it is time
to do the right thing and end what veterans call the "Forever War." An
entire generation has never known a country at peace, and this conflict
has cost a trillion dollars and countless lives.
Pres. Biden has
the chance to right this wrong. This conflict must end now, as he
promised many times during his campaign. Our continued presence in
Afghanistan is not making America safer. In fact, prolonging these
conflicts is making us a target and putting our troops in harm's way
unnecessarily. It's well past time, please, Mr. President, bring our
troops home now.
Military withdrawal from Afghanistan will give
our diplomats a chance to do the hard work of building a peace
agreement, rather than continuing with a failed military strategy that
cannot accomplish anything further, and which the "Afghanistan Papers"
published by the Washington Post reveal top generals themselves do not
even believe in.
America's veterans and military members deserve
to have a government which advocates for them. We're counting on you to
do the right thing.
Writing a Letter to the
Editor can have a real impact, especially if you include any applicable
information about your military service or name your Representatives in
Congress. Believe me, elected officials read these!
If we can get dozens of veterans to sign on, we can take a crucial step to defending our democracy. But we need your help.
This
week, we learned what happens after a multi-billion dollar company like
Amazon spends a year intimidating, punishing, and suppressing workers
in Bessemer, Alabama who were working to form a union to push back on
unfair working conditions.
While this was not the result that we were hoping for, we are proud of the bravery and tremendous success the workers had in standing up to one the biggest corporations in the world, telling their story on the global stage, and demanding that they be treated with dignity and respect.
Congress needs to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to make sure worker voices cannot be silenced.Unions are one of best ways to ensure fair working conditions and equity.
And we need to break up these corporations through stronger antitrust
laws that give the tools that regulators need to ensure that no
corporation can make billions of dollars by profiting from the suffering
of workers and the destruction of small businesses.
This
is only the beginning. Workers and communities have been standing up to
Amazon's greed and abuses for years and we will soon see a time where
those efforts will result in the power that workers need to break up
Amazon's grip on our economy.
We need to remember that what’s happening in Bessemer is a result of Amazon’s unchecked corporate power and what corporations have done for decades to diminish the power of labor law so that they can get the most profit out of us as possible.
