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January 22, 2016

Richest 62 People Own as Much as Half of World's Population

Larry Elliot The Guardian

The Oxfam charity says only higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop divide widening

Buddy Can You Spare a Dime

January 22, 2016

Charlie Palloy and his orchestra (1932) perform Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney).

Willie Nelson -- Summertime

January 22, 2016

Willie Nelson shares his redition of Summertime (Ira and George Gershwin), the title track of his upcoming album.

Josh White -- Hard Times Blues

January 22, 2016

Josh White ('the father of American fold music'), performs his Hard Times Blues (1942). Intro by David Hertzberg.

Ry Cooder No Banker Left Behind

January 22, 2016

From Ry Cooder's album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, illustrated with images from the 2008 Great Recession.

Run DMC Hard Times

January 22, 2016

An unauthorized tribute to Run DMC done to the images of the financial panic of 2008.

January 22, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- January 22, 2015

A short compilation of hard times music. Run DMC Hard Times. Ry Cooder No Banker Left Behind. Josh White Hard Times Blues. Willie Nelson Summertime. Charlie Palloy Buddy Can You Spare a Dime.

January 21, 2016

Joslyn Williams Passing Baton to New Leadership; After 34 Years at Labor Council Helm

Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO Union City

Noting that conditions today are similar to those at the dawn of the Gilded Age characterized by disproportionate wealth and extreme corruption, retiring DC Metro Labor Council President Joslyn Williams added, "In that era, they were lobbing vicious attacks against workers with guns and batons. Today, they are armed with suits and maneuvers that undercut workers from Wall Street to the state house to U.S. Supreme Court."

January 21, 2016

Tidbits - January 21, 2016 - Sanders' Health for All Plan; Flint's Water; Richard Levins - Presente!; A Park for Pete Seeger; Action for Puerto Rico, for Saudi Arabia; Ursula Le Guin; and more...

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Reader Comments: Sanders' Health for All Plan; Deportations; Flint's Water; Richard Levins - Presente!; Add Your Name - End All U.S. Support for the Government of Saudi Arabia; Your Action Needed - A Park for Pete Seeger; Action for Puerto Rico; Ursula K. Le Guin Rips Bundy Militia in 194 words; Making All of the World's Art Accessible to Anyone Online - Ansel Adams photography; and more...

January 21, 2016

I am French

Jeremy Harding London Review of Books

Were the mass 'We are Charlie' demonstrations in France in support of 'We are France,' in the best republican tradition or a shot against Muslim immigrants signifying that 'You are not?' Polymath Emmanuel Todd argues that the demonstrations, like much of Charlie Hebdo's satire, were not so much attacks on toxic religious ideology as broadly anti-Muslim and anti-Arab, indicating that the vaunted French secularism has lost its solidaristic component, 'equality.'