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Retreat
No phone or internet for the next week. Be well! -
The struggle continues
The IWW Jimmy John's Workers Union lost a very tight National Labor Relations Board vote yesterday. The IWW recorded 22 separate unfair labor practices on the part of the franchise owners, and might file a formal challenge to the election on these grounds. A victory would have made the JJWU the certified legal representative of Jimmy John's ( Read more... ) -
Sick
And today and yesterday I was sick as a dog. The food? Some strange Canadian virus from my old friends? Who knows?
The parrot is insisting that it is "night night", so to bed I must go directly. -
Go Wobblies
On Friday night I had a great dinner with my friends Heather and Patrick from Winnipeg and their three adorable children. We had Ethiopian food at Fasika in Saint Paul. They are in town for the General Assembly of the IWW, which is going on this weekend right here in the Twin Cities ( Read more... ) -
Original Goatsucker
Tonight: a great flock, a great aerial squadron of nighthawks in the twilight sky, soaring, circling, diving all together, the sharp eerie "peeet" of their calls bouncing off the roofs and pavement. These birds in late summer were the music of my childhood ( Read more... ) -
Aww!
http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com
I know, owls don't drink. They just look hung over because they were photographed in the morning and they ought to be in bed.
That's their story, anyway. -
No Excuse for Tom Emmer
Why has Tom Emmer (MN State Rep from Delano, Republican candidate for Governor) missed so many votes in the MN House of Representatives ( Read more... )
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