Progressive Massachusetts has the article Now What? The long-term work of bending the arc by Harmony Wu.

The article concludes with the following:

Grassroots power is not turned on and off and back on again with a switch, at a moment’s notice. To truly build an effective movement, one that mobilizes true change, it takes long-term organizing, work, relationship-building, and collaboration with others who share our common goals.

• What if getting better government and policies meant not just an every couple-of-years high-intensity short-term election push?
• What if we worked on a slower burn, sustained and over time?

We have power; let’s focus it and put it to use!

This is the very issue that the Elizabeth Warren campaign volunteers in the Brimfield/Southbridge/Sturbridge area are struggling with right now. We are planning to at least meet often to keep the group together for just the reasons cited in Harmony Wu’s piece.

Nation Of Change has the story Hostess Blames Union for Bankruptcy after Tripling CEO’s Pay.

But while headlines have been quick to blame unions for the downfall of the company there’s actually more to the story: While the company was filing for bankruptcy, for the second time, earlier this year, it actually tripled its CEO’s pay, and increased other executives’ compensation by as much as 80 percent.

At the time, creditors warned that the decision signaled an attempt to “sidestep” bankruptcy rules, potentially as a means for trying to keep the executive at a failing company.

The vulture capitalists that took over Hostess must have been reading Mitt Romney’s how to book on being a vulture capitalist.  He used a similar ploy for executives of a firm he took over in order to keep the money out of the hands of the FDIC.  After admitting that they had been snookered, the FDIC had to agree to calling it even after accepting 30 cents on the dollar from Romney’s company for one of the banks the FDIC was rescuing.

If you and I hid funds from the bankruptcy court, we would be in jail without passing go and without collecting $200.  Even though corporations are people, it seems that you cannot put them in jail when they do the same thing other people do to get themselves jailed.

Now that I have been defriended on Facebook by my own relatives, I guess it was time to get off Israel’s case and bust somebody else’s myths.