So, last month I wrote about my chapbook, White Men Can't Jump,* and included a link to its chapter about now-deposed BP king, BP CEO Tony Heyward, he who must no longer be obeyed. (That piece, about what I've termed the "BP Massacre," was featured in the Huffington Post.).
Today, the link I offer-up is to another chapbook I'm writing: Hope's Great, But a Girl's Got to Organize. The link here is to my July column for Today's Chicago Woman, a column also published on the Chicago Tribune website, Chicago Now.
This month, I've written about another great agitator against Standard Oil, and for social justice, Ida Tarbell, (and, along the way, refer to previous writing about Ida B. Wells, an equally committed and gifted crusader). Here is the oh-so-fitting-for-Fourth-of-July-month quote I took as my mantra for this, my paean to Ida Tarbell/tirade against BP:
"...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."
The Declaration of Independence really is the original call-to-arms, the first American organizers' manifesto. [Turns-out, Saul A. had nothing on Thomas Jefferson. And, more to the point for this piece: Gloria S. has nothing, on either Ida.]
"They had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me."
As always, I hope you will share my missive with others--on Facebook, on Twitter, by e-mail, or otherwise.
Best wishes.
*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. |
