The Rare Work-Related Post Because These Workers Deserve It

May 28, 2010

I really do try to post every single (week)day, because if I ever give myself permission to slack on anything, I find I tend to run right away with that slack. So, you know, discipline. It’s important and stuff. Like every military dad says in every 80s movie.

But don’t send me away to the Academy just yet. I can explain! Very last minute, i got shipped up to Boston for a big worker rally/march. It was incredibly cool to be marching with these workers who marching because the company cut their health care off. Some of these workers have wives in advanced pregnancy, some have sick kids–and this company (Shaw’s, if you’re on the East Coast) doesn’t care. It’s just plain corporate greed, and it felt awesome to stand beside these workers who are fighting for what’s right–who marched sixty miles to show how hard they’ll fight. More people need to do that today, when giant corporations are taking advantage of the recession to screw working people even more. (If you want to know more about the workers and sign the petition to Shaw’s, check out the Justice at Shaw’s website .)

Anyway, I’m on the train back to DC, and I’m super pumped because I brought my copy of American Gymnopedies and I’m going to crack that baby open once I’ve finished some work, and I’m also listening the National’s new amazing album and eating an Auntie Anne’s pretzel. Not a bad way to close out the week.

Have a good Memorial Day weekend, everybody!