By biggdamndawgg
Chicago Humboldt Park native tells you his life story and struggle on how he came to know the dog game.
Posted on March 28, 2011
Father Pfleger: Radical Disciple
Compiled by Steve Rhodes
With the Rev. Michael Pfleger once again facing reassignment from his beloved St. Sabina, now is an opportune time to dip into Robert McClory’s Radical Disciple: Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice
The Billboards
“At the end of one unproductive meeting he asked a billboard official if he would ever consider saturating the Chicago Gold Coast or the affluent North Shore with the kind of concentrated advertising accorded the minority communities.
“‘No,’ said the official, ‘they wouldn’t allow us to do that.’
“‘Then neither will we!’ said Pfleger as he left the meeting.”
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See also: City Balks As Billboards Overrun Poor Areas
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“Standing Up, Taking Back organized a two-day sit-in at the Midwest office of the Lorillard Tobacco Company, the manufacturer of Newports, in the upscale Chicago suburb of Naperville. More than one hundred protesters milled around the company grounds for the better part of two days, demanding that Lorillard cease inundating the minority community with ads and stop distributing caps and T-shirts that linked Newports with good times. ‘Bouncing balls, skates, happy people – that’s the image they give of cigarettes,’ said Pfleger. ‘They should be showing coffins instead.'”
Posted on March 21, 2011
Language Arts: Collective Bargaining
By Nancy Simon and Steve Rhodes
Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement. Employees are often represented in bargaining by a union or other labor organization. Collective bargaining is governed by federal and state statutory laws, administrative agency regulations, and judicial decisions. In areas where federal and state law overlap, state laws are preempted.
– Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
Though the term collective bargaining was not officially coined until 1891 by the English economist and socialist reformer Beatrice Webb, its presence in the workplace dates back to the legalization of trade unions in 1886.
“In the United States, the formation of the American Labor Union in 1886 was the seminal event in the legalization of collective bargaining,” according to the Business Dictionary.
Posted on March 16, 2011
The Book Surgeon
By augustted
“Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed . . .
“Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA.”
Posted on March 7, 2011