What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Bike Clown Brigade
Tired of cars and trucks clowning around and blocking the bike lanes?
Come join the Bike Clown Brigade, made up of cyclists dressed like clowns, as they ride through the Manhattan bike lanes searching out motor vehicles illegally parked in their lanes and reminding drivers how dangerous, sometimes deadly, cars & trucks in the bike lanes are for cyclists.
Any driver refusing to move will be issued a “parking ticket” for $115 for violating NYC traffic law Section 4-08 (e), which explicitly prohibits parking, standing or stopping in bike lanes and holds a $115 fine. The clowns will draw attention to what they believe the NYPD should be doing: enforcing the laws that protect bicyclists.
This ride usually covers a bit over 5 miles and lasts about 2 hours.
Times Up! NYC Direct Action Environmental Organization
The Union Difference
Part-time faculty members at Montgomery College, in Maryland, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation by the Service Employees International Union Local 500.
The 365-to-105 vote was a first for part-time instructors in the state, the union said in a news release. About 1,000 adjuncts teach about half of all courses offered at Montgomery College, the union said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, News Blog, June 5, 2008
If you do a search on the web about labor unions and why people want them you find that the majority of the results, at least on the first page or two, are anti-union propaganda sites. That says a lot about the threat unions represent to the current order. We are hardly organized at all, particularly in the private sector, yet it seems too much for some.
Yet now and again you see a story like the one about the faculty at Montgomery College and you remember that the traditional logic is as powerful as ever. The AFL-CIO has the basic facts, which can be verified in any number of ways: among other things, unions raise salaries, improve health care benefits, and improve productivity.
Janis Joplin – Summertime (Live Gröna Lund 1969)