By Krista Schwimmer – Local activist and poet, Mark Lipman, has won the Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award for 2015. Named after the legendary Joe Hill, the award is given to a writer […]
Local Activist, Mark Lipman, To Receive Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award
Labor and the Environment
By Mark Lipman Righteously, there is outrage over the state of our environment. Whether mountaintop removal for coal in West Virginia, or the dumping of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we all […]
Big Boss Man vs the Indigent Children
Political Cartoon by Khalil Bendib By Eric Ahlberg Get a job. Nothing seems to disturb the gentrifiers of Venice like unemployed youth hanging out on their block. Why can’t they just get a job […]
Chicago Teachers Strike
By Fred Owens I am not getting involved in this issue. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and I have a long-standing survival policy — when they’re fighting downtown, stay […]
The Other Brother: “Salt of the Earth,” The Film They Tried To Kill, Lives On Thanks to Technology
By Jim Smith A lot of people in Venice know that Edward Biberman was the artist who painted the Post Office mural, The Story of Venice. But few probably know that his […]
The Venice Skills Center Is In Danger of Losing Its Funding
By Charles Thomas The Venice Skills Center, our adult education and training school, is threatened with losing its budget. Once again a governmental agency claiming “budget woes” threatens to kill a pillar […]
Growing Up Latino: How Cesar Chavez Inspired A Generation
By Yolanda Miranda Latinos were once known as the “sleeping giant.” Not only did they wake up, but they have roared in disenchantment over the proposed policies of this government against them […]
100 Years Ago The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 25, 1911
On that day, mostly women garment workers were locked into their workplace on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors as usual. On March 25, a fire broke out. The Fire Dempartment arrived, […]
Putting Labor Back in Labor Day
By Roger Linnett The one thing in this country that we should be talking about but aren’t, especially considering it’s Labor Day, is jobs. Real jobs, too – not menial part-time jobs or […]
Labor Day Sidebar: Why we got a day off
Labor Day was adopted in September of 1894 to try and ameliorate nationwide hostility towards the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland had ordered U.S. Marshals and 12,000 federal troops into Chicago to break a wildcat […]
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