> For those who say the Supreme Court makes little difference or the Clinton
> labor board made little difference, the fact remains that the Clinton board
> consistently expanded the scope of which workers had protection under labor
> law, from graduate students to temp workers to registered nurses.
Grad students organized *themselves*. Many of the relevant laws are on the state level, where local activism made a big difference, but our national labor laws continue to be terrible, a crime against humanity. But the Dumbocratic branch of our one-party-with-half-a-brain state is paid hundreds of millions of dollars every year to make sure Wall Street flourishes while everyone else gets screwed, and they've done an excellent job of that.
Words fail when trying to describe a party which brought us the Cold War, mass murder in Vietnam, enough plutonium to wipe out the planet 100,000 times over, destruction and misery in Latin America, sealed the rule of Wall Street neoliberalism for eight years and then raised not a peep when its candidate won the election by 500,000 votes but "lost" due to a heinous 18th century political setup which it has spent zero, repeat, zero energy trying to change. Whenever I think about the sheer violence unleashed by the political agents of the Pax Americana on the world since 1945, the broken bodies and savaged landscapes, chills run down my spine, the same chills German citizens must have felt in 1946, when the first reports on the death-camps started coming out.
-- Dennis