Democrats should do more than oppose this bill. They should also introduce and fight for legislation to ban this dangerous product. They should go beyond defense and go on offense. They should show working people and their allies what solidarity looks like. That’s what workers have been waiting to see - for decades. Australia is showing the way. Silicosis is torture. Ban it.
This is what the people of Minnesota are showing us. Fight back for real change.
A poster by Ben Shan from the civil rights movement implores, “Thou shalt not stand idly by.” C’mon Dems, show us, loudly. Bring out the whistles and the cameras.
An old story; look at the history of asbestos containing products. Known for decades to be linked to extreme health hazards, including risk to families when workers carried it home on their clothes, its use continued for years. Drag out the law suits like health insurance companies do and the problem ceases to be.
As I used to say about being ship engine room crew, what's another dead peasant? The air going into the large drive motors of diesel-electric vessels passed through filter banks. The engine room and control station air we breathed did not.
By choice. The econ system now dominant is out of the Chicago School of Economics for which there is little, if any, empirical evidence. It's argument by assertion. A foundational belief: the only real human motivation is utility, personal gain. Therefore ideas like the common good or concern for environments or labor solidarity are meaningless. Their advocates either don't understand how the real world works or are phony demagogues.
As for short term profit, by law that's defined as best for the stockholders. Never mind corporations are chartered by states explicitly as serving a public good.
Democrats should do more than oppose this bill. They should also introduce and fight for legislation to ban this dangerous product. They should go beyond defense and go on offense. They should show working people and their allies what solidarity looks like. That’s what workers have been waiting to see - for decades. Australia is showing the way. Silicosis is torture. Ban it.
This is what the people of Minnesota are showing us. Fight back for real change.
A poster by Ben Shan from the civil rights movement implores, “Thou shalt not stand idly by.” C’mon Dems, show us, loudly. Bring out the whistles and the cameras.
An old story; look at the history of asbestos containing products. Known for decades to be linked to extreme health hazards, including risk to families when workers carried it home on their clothes, its use continued for years. Drag out the law suits like health insurance companies do and the problem ceases to be.
As I used to say about being ship engine room crew, what's another dead peasant? The air going into the large drive motors of diesel-electric vessels passed through filter banks. The engine room and control station air we breathed did not.
We value short term profit, nfluence and ideology over people.
By choice. The econ system now dominant is out of the Chicago School of Economics for which there is little, if any, empirical evidence. It's argument by assertion. A foundational belief: the only real human motivation is utility, personal gain. Therefore ideas like the common good or concern for environments or labor solidarity are meaningless. Their advocates either don't understand how the real world works or are phony demagogues.
As for short term profit, by law that's defined as best for the stockholders. Never mind corporations are chartered by states explicitly as serving a public good.