"MONEY, MONEY, MONEY" SEZ NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

(Mon. Dec. 15, 2008 — Washington, DC) Early this morning Milton Friedman, the foremost promoter of free market economics, took responsibility for unfurling three banners atop the newest building of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, still under construction. Friedman, making the first appearance since his alleged death in November 2006, scrawled the messages “Greed Forever,” “Money Money Money” and “Milton Friedman wuz here” in paint on three large sheets before dropping them from the rooftop and out of a top-story window of the 179,000 square-foot MSB building…

So far as most of us can tell, the "economic stimulus" plan issuing from The Office Of The President-Elect (snicker) includes the most staggeringly pants-pissing amounts of cash to prop up failing corporations, banks and executives, and jack for the rest of us, unless we're prepared to summon up some cajones and engage in a little good old-fashioned shop-floor smackdown, like those laid-off workers in Chicago.

On the local level, here in DC, as Inauguration Day – or, as now known to some, Barack Obama Day – approaches, The One's economic stimulus program for DC has finally begun to jell; according to The Office Of The President-Elect (snurf), this plan will take a two-pronged approach: one prong for the quite well-off, and another big prong for the rest of us…

The sit-in and plant occupation at Chicago's Republic Windows and Doors ended in victory late Wednesday night, when the union announced that more than 200 workers and members of UE Local 1110 voted unanimously to accept a $1.75 million settlement that includes eight weeks of back pay, two months of continued health coverage, and compensation for unused vacation time…

"IF IT'S GONNA TAKE US TEN YEARS, WE'LL BE HERE TEN YEARS!" DECLARES HILTON COOK

Overworked housekeepers? Health benefits cost going ballistic? Seniority, sick leave, pensions gone? All this and more, thanks to Columbia Sussex, employer of hotel workers at the Crystal City Hilton. It's no wonder workers agree: Columbia Sussex "sucks", and called a boycott against their own hotel, at an energetic picket and rally outside the Crystal City Hilton…

Still photography by Isis.
Video by Mike Flugennock, via YouTube, 05min 27sec
Broadcast audio by WSQT 88.1FM, 06min 30sec

As the guidelines have not been publicly disclosed, there is no way to analyze if the directives incorporate meaningful privacy safeguards to ensure that field agents honor constitutional values and civil liberties while conducting domestic surveillance.

WSQT Broadcast the solidarity piece below yesterday in support of the Uprising in Greece against police brutality

Audio from Dec 8 broadcast
Audio from Dec 12 broadcast

The funniest thing during the court appearance of Finnish neo-Nazi Henrik Holappa (pictured here) was the makeup of all the court employees we encountered from the security guards to the clerk, to the government's attorney, right on up to the judge herself: Everyone of them, save for the security guards on the ground floor were black, and the ones on the ground floor, were Hispanic. Oh, wait, there was also a Spanish-speaking interpreter there, and she was Hispanic!

In fact, with the exception of the few lawyers here and there, the only white people in the courtroom the entire time were Holappa, deNugent and the two others that came with them!

"What, Another One?" Finnish Neo-Nazi Seeking Political Asylum in USA, One Peoples' Project 07 Dec 2008

Dear Infoshop Friends and Supporters,

For many reasons, it's been some time since we have put out an update on the status of the Infoshop. We are writing now to try to catch everyone up to speed on what's going on with us. There is a lot to say.

As many have noticed, the Infoshop has been closed considerably more than it has been open over the last few months. For some time, those of us doing the core work involved in maintaining this project have felt overwhelmed and stretched very thin. Although there has always been a steady stream of interest from willing volunteers to support the project, finding people who are committed to doing the more intensive work entailed in sustaining the project over the long term, has always been a challenge…