Labor rights are human rights.
We know this because labor is the basic way we human beings contribute our capacity to create wealth to the societies in which we live and which keep us alive. Labor is our “product,” the “good” we bring to the marketplace, and our right to determine what we are paid for it (by collective action or otherwise) is as inalienable as the right to determine the cost of any physical good we might produce and bring to market.

But we should think about this one step more fundamentally.

(A version of this article originally appeared in the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Newsletter.)

Finally, the depredations of capitalism are on everybody's lips.

Between a collapsing dollar, soaring fuel costs, the implosion of credit markets, and the recent, breathtaking display of rapacity by mortgage lenders and their Wall Street bac

Madison now has a second local trading system.

The striking fall of the dollar against other world currencies (-27% against the Euro over the last 2 years) has prompted many to wonder if the long-predicted collapse of the US financial empire is at