Despite election fraud and vote suppression by the GOP, Big Labor plans to win elections (in their dreams) :: News From Underground
" My friend John Nichols writes glowingly of labor’s “smart” new plan “to build on the protest
and politics model developed in Wisconsin, where mass protests against anti-labor
initiatives signaled an opening for labor to go on the offensive.” Meanwhile, “key unions
will be putting all their political money into state and local races and related projects.”
What this means, John writes, is that the major unions, like the AFL-CIO, are now into “changing the way labor practices politics. And that’s a very good thing.”
Now, John lives in Madison, and reports from there voluminously, so he surely knows way more about Wisconsin politics than I can ever hope to learn. But I do my best to follow what’s been happening there; and I have to say I haven’t seen a shred of evidence that labor in that ravaged state has actually accomplished anything aside from getting creamed by Walker and his goons."
About Mark Crispin Miller
Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including Boxed In: The Culture of TV; The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder; Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform. He is also the editor of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008. His essays and articles have appeared in many journals, magazines and newspapers throughout the nation and the world, and he has given countless interviews worldwide. Full Article Here
Miller is the editor of Icons of America, a book series published by Yale University Press. Miller is now at work on The Marlboro Man: An American Success Story, to be published by Yale University Press in 2011. He is also editor of Discovering America, a new book series from the University of Texas Press.
In 2004, Miller wrote Patriot Act, a show that he performed for six weeks at the New York Theater Workshop, co-starring with Steve Cuiffo.
Miller earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1971, and his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Although he specialized in Renaissance literature, Miller is best known as a media critic. Before joining New York University, Miller served as director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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