Eric Wattree
If Post Office Wants to Honor Blacks, Emancipate Them
On July 10, the United States Postal Service issued two 44-cent postage stamps honoring the Negro Baseball League.
A Glance at Destiny
Since this is political column, I rarely use it to discuss anything else. But when I come across excellence, I feel obligated to bring it to your attention. In this era where glaring mediocrity has become the standard we expect. Unfettered excellence is a political statement in itself, and Ms. Rita Edmond speaks volumes in that regard.
The Beginning of the End of Worker Abuse
I thought my activist days were behind me, other than fighting for the cause of human dignity in this column. But as a creature of the 1960's, it's t not in my nature to turn my back on injustice and the exploitation of the weak.
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse — It's Time to Fight Back
It is time for poor and middle-class workers to start fighting back. The corporate community has become increasingly prone to taking shortcuts on safety, creating hostile work environments, undercutting, even stealing, wages from gainfully employed workers in the name of grossly obscene profits.
Are Postal Workers Being Shafted Again?
The following report comes directly from an audit by the Office of Inspector General. It was released on July 1. Further comment is not required. It speaks for itself:
Fourth of July Message: The Lady Wears Shackles
For over a hundred and twenty years, the Statue of Liberty has greeted immigrants to these shores with open arms and a promise of the kind of freedom they never had known.
A Little Tough Love for the People
This past Friday, June 25, I attended a breakfast at the Regency West in Leimert Park, given by The Urban Issues Forum of Greater Los Angeles. Hosted by Dr. Anthony A. Samad, coordinated by Ms. Arnetta White Mack, the principal speaker was Minister Keith Muhammad, of Mosque 26B in Oakland.
Postal Employee Abuse Spurs Call for Citizen Group
Do you know the names of any of the 29 coal miners who died in West Virginia on April 5, or what has happened to their families since that needless tragedy?
Is the Government Putting Something in the Water?
When I was a teenager, my grandfather told me when you start thinking everyone else is crazy, it's time to look in the mirror. It must be my time because this country is looking more like a Stepford society to me every day.
The People, the Scam and the Mainstream Media
A reader asked me last week why I've become so fixated on the Post Office. Since I worked for the Postal Service for 27 years, I care about postal workers. They are a part of my extended family. I have an intimate understanding of the hardships they endure.
