On October 16th, 1859, John Brown and eighteen of his comrades raided the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. Their aim was to spark a slave insurrection that would destroy the southern slave economy, or at the very least to accelerate the...
On Wednesday, October 6, after impressively voting down four previous tentative agreements, Seattle carpenters organized in the Northwest Carpenter Union began voting on a new agreement. The voting goes to October 11 with the result made public soon thereafter. They...
From a French friend of Speak Out Now A small “revolution” has taken place in public transit in France very recently (buses, metro, trains). It is opening up to competition. Until recently, the operation of transit lines was awarded to an operator by the...
In China, the giant real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt. Its total liabilities have ballooned to an extraordinary 1.97 trillion yuan or U.S. $305 billion. This is 2% of China’s gross domestic product (GDP). The company’s...
Workers at Nabisco, the company that makes snacks like Oreos, Fig Newtons and Wheat Thins, have been on strike since August 10th. The strike began at a bakery in Portland, Oregon and has since spread to Aurora, Colorado and Richmond, Virginia. Workers have described...
