Bob SimpsonThe Package King: A Rank and File History of the United Parcel Service by Joe Allen — -reviewed by…“Working at UPS should be the best job in America and it just isn’t.” — — a Teamster negotiator to a UPS official during the tense 1997…Sep 29, 2016Sep 29, 2016
Bob SimpsonFight for $15: Breaking the silence about suburban poverty“As a 44-year-old man, making $8.25, living paycheck to paycheck and barely being able to survive just isn’t right. I love to cook. I love…Nov 6, 2015Nov 6, 2015
Bob SimpsonNo more daydreaming…A reflection on the book Daydream Sunset: The Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies by Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch Press 2015Oct 29, 2015Oct 29, 2015
Bob SimpsonIncrease the Harvest is feeding hungry children in Chicago’s Austin communityIt was an unseasonably warm late October afternoon in the Austin neighborhood of West Side Chicago. A steady stream of school children and…Oct 26, 2015Oct 26, 2015
Bob SimpsonAre the Dyett hunger strikers on the verge of victory?The words of James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” echoed down Drexel Ave on Chicago’s South Side the mild summer evening of…Sep 13, 2015Sep 13, 2015
Bob SimpsonThe Chicago hunger strike for Dyett High School: Why it matters to us allIt was a tough week for the environment. A chunk of glacier so big it could bury Manhattan in 1000 feet of ice fell into the sea off…Aug 30, 2015Aug 30, 2015
Bob SimpsonWhen White People Rioted in Baltimore“The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets…May 12, 2015May 12, 2015
Bob SimpsonThe Chicago election: the electoral revolution that didn’t happenIt was one helluva an election season on the shores of Lake Michigan. Last summer I was brimming with optimism. The Chicago Teachers Union…Apr 21, 2015Apr 21, 2015