Here is the latest chapter of my White Men Can't Jump chapbook;* the one all-about, and dedicated-to, BP CEO Tony Heyward, he who must no longer be obeyed.
The chapter was featured this week in the Huffington Post Chicago edition.
Also, thanks to Frances Beinecke, longtime family friend, and President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (founded by my father and a few other visionaries), I've become a "citizen reporter" for Onearth, the NRDC publication and website. [This current blogpost, as well as my earlier one, The Gulf: Between Perception and Reality, appear at Onearth.]
As I acknowledge in " BP Massacre," the hero of the parable, Huey Long, is a controversial man. But, as I also note, regardless, he had some mighty fine ideas. Ideas so very applicable on this day, in these days, when we (continue to) contemplate that unrelenting gusher and the failure of the Senate to pass a "jobs bill," to help unemployed Gulf oil workers, as well as the millions of other unemployed, both nearby and farwaway.
These matters of oil spill and unemployment are intimately related: Here is how Huey Long explained it:
"The same mill that grinds out the extra rich is the same mill that will grind out the extra poor, because, in order that the extra rich can become so affluent, they must necessarily take more of what ordinarily would belong to the average man." As always, I hope you will share my missive with others of like-mind--on Facebook, on Twitter, or by e-mail. [In my view, we must all speak-up, and take action in these times.]
Thanks,
Rebecca www.rebeccasive.com/blogSubscribe.htm
*http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/White_Men_Can't_Jump The chapbook recounts policy idiocies I've observed, idiocies that might have been avoided if, say, a woman had been in charge. |
