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Statement by Timothy Lynch, President of Teamsters Local 1205

"Having organized many workers and studied labor history, I have seen that Eli Siegel understood what other economists and historians have not. He explained that the central matter in economics is ETHICAL: the fight throughout history is not the class struggle; it's the fight between respect for people and contempt for people."   >> more

Review of Ken Kimmelman's film "What Does a Person Deserve?"

  What Does A Person Deserve? Is the question posed by a film by the same name playing at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. Emmy award-winning flimmaker Ken Kimmelman tackles the issue of homelessness and hunger with a stirring montage of black and white photographs showing the brutal effects on people's lives.  >> more

"A Father Seen Anew" by Bruce Blaustein, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, published in Senior News (Suffolk, New York)

On the second day of the new century, my father, David Blaustein died. It is hard 
to express in words the feelings I had as the family drove to the cemetery on that cloudy Tuesday morning for his funeral. I had a sense of great loss which took in the painful realization that I would never see him again, and yet-and this is why I am writing this article-I also felt tremendous gratitude for the true friendship we came to have in these past years.  >> more

To learn more about Aesthetic Realism, visit the Aesthetic Realism Foundation's website at www.AestheticRealism.org and read more about unions in The Right Of, edited by Ellen Reiss.