The old ways are dying

As a tree fades gently into the night

Nevermore for its leaves to shine bright

A new dawn is arising

The harbingers of the past

Keep clawing

Yet they will not cease

To feel the weight of the world

Fall into its destiny

Voila!

A new day has begun!

The final journey from the physic to the quantum infinitum

Where the working class

Can relax

Create

And enjoy

Life!

Under the sun

Life is like a concrete border wall
Standing alone
Against the Winds of Time
Paying not a hint of attention
To the squall
Nor the federal workers call
For pay checks
The only thing that matters
Is thine Celebrity
And political status
The symbolism of the Superior Structure
Practically shouts to all
Bring not your poor
Destitute
Freedom searching souls
Unto my shore
Our hearts are as hard as steel
And concrete joined
Empathy toucheth me not at all

I Am Your Noble Ruler!

Ruling via tweet

Democracy beseeched!

My decrees reach
The cities and hinterlands
Sent out fort-with

Authoritatively!

From my Golden Stall

 

Any Investor worth his salt could have told you the Bull was high
The top of the mountain reached
Then comes The Bubble
The Bear Market nigh

The Apprentice President was assumed to have such astounding Business Acumen

Propped Up
By the Working Class!

We have our Billionaire Celebrity to run The Show!

Somebody cue up Etta James
At Last!

Alas – When will we ever learn that a sound economy is not built on Financial Flash

Simple Supply and Demand

What can be bought at the store and picked up from the worker’s hand?

Giving gi-normous tax breaks to billionaires and corporations

Only widens The Bubble

Creating far more Space and Time
for the Stock Market to unwind

For the Crashing economy

To land

Creating once again hardship

For those who must survive

On the toiler’s grind

Why do you surmise the CEO’s put the majority of the money into their own stocks to climb?

Their multi-billion dollar bonuses regardless of the market maneuvers arrive every year

Right on time!

The “naturally” benevolent Invisible Hand

Has workers and the poor paying once again

Out-of-hand

Did you know?
A long long time ago
There was born
In the North Pole snow
A baby elve

Her red-cheeked face
All aglow

Little did she know?

Her tiny Momma
Had perished
In the Arctic cold

Santa Claus smiled at his newborn child

Despite losing his was-to-be elven wife

He could not bring himself to imagine the business strife

Her tiny baby’s eyes
And his entwined

Taking his mind
But for a moment

Off of the momentous morbid woe

From the depths of his consumer-driven jolly heart

His tears signaled a resigned goodbye

Amid a fresh newly charted start

Knowing the path must yet go forward

For him and his wife’s wonderful gift

Of a healthy and vibrant daughter

Mr. Claus managing a smile

Burst forth a tenderly sympathetic
Yet lovingly empathetic

Ho Ho!

Clowns Frown
Done Took Down The Town
Pat Him Down
Why You Wearing
Your Wife’s Wedding Gown?
Be Best
Appropo Shhh!
Don’t Make A Sound
I’ma Clarify This
It’s Like Catching St. Nicholas
Coming Down From The Chimney
Toyless and Joyless
As He Hits The Ground
Square Yourself Off
You’re Lookin’ a Bit Clowned
Lookin’ For One Word
To Describe this Ditty

Bubbalicious!

Freak-off!

How Bout Profound

Pray to your God
Think only a positive thought
Work hard for thine regard

Where is the receipt?

For these all lies that I have bought

Another child without food
Another petty crime committing black man dead

Another War abroad

Innocent Palestinians mashed and mauled

Killer Drones off-shored

To add to
The Furnace of the Fires
Of the dread

Another First amendment protester silenced
Another consumer borne

Fascism ushered in via Citizens

Doctors

Lawyers

Billionaire Celebrities

Pastors

Assorted Imprisonists

Is America reborn?

Where is the integrity?

Where is the scorn?

 

It’s raining!
It’s pouring!

Honoring American soldiers killed in World War One at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France?
Or snoring?

Will I get big adoring crowds?
Ratings soaring?

If not about my regalness!
Then it is naturally boring!

Why all the underlings imploring?

I cherish my soldiers
More than Hermann Wilhelm Goring

We shalt defeat the evil Caravan

On our own sand

Thus it will be raining and pouring

Adulation!

Winning!

For my warring – Genius!

 

Thoughts and Prayers
Catholic Priestly fears
Catatonic ever-quibbling lawmakers
Patriotic civilian protester peers

Thoughts and Prayers
Wars for years
Weapons makers Gaza Palooza
Civilian family tears

Thoughts and Prayers
Consumer arrears
Wall Street Financial gambling
Tax-breaks/subsidies/ giveaways for corporations and billionaires

Thoughts and Prayers

Black and Brown ghetto gang crime re-appears

Wrapped culturally strong man-boys

Police vigilantism

Visceral state-enforced anti-activism

Copper Rippers” unapologetically leer

Root cause effects to cheer

Unconstitutional Stop and Frisk!

Amidst the socially and economically atomized

Rat mice and cockroach infested

Rented poor working class

Social programs stripped to austere

More government money invested for prison than school chairs

ICE!

Heated masked undocumented immigrant police?

New Gestapo on the city streets?

Federal over-reach

New Emperor state military commandeer

Thoughts and Prayers

Assault Rifle Gunman madman/child appears!

Bloodied School children!
Cry frightened with fear

Thoughts and Prayers

Medicare For All?

The “Socialist radical plan” will make our cupboards bare!

Who dare states that entrepreneurial doctors and dentists need support providing citizens Health Care?

The Trillion-dollar twenty-year disaster in Afghanistan?

Let us move on with the sale of more military hardware!

The money will be legitimized by the Congress to the quick!

The childrens” lives?

Who in tar nation cares?

We support the financing of the gunware!

The politicians cry again for ever-more vigilant police

The building of violence soaked garish prisons as the tools

For the taming of the Domestic Square

The Master of the Universe governs as it relates to imperialistic exploits in foreign affairs!

Always in Congressional concurrence of a villain

Technologically advanced China!

To forswear

Buy the bye!

The blessed antidote
The people have I swear

Another year

All together now for the Billionaire space class

Hedge fund

Wall Street

Corporate CEOS

Hollywood and television actors’ fawning adoring corporate-advertised cheer!

Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers!

 

The Boogeymen are coming
They will wipe out your towns!
This is no laughing matter
This Central American
Caravan of brown frowns
Hold onto your children
We shall not yield nay even one inch
To these salacious spectres
From The Evil Abyss
Conjured up by The Grinch
Batten down the hatches!
Do not dare chance even one peep!
We will send out our loyal soldiers
By plane, tank, and jeep
We must stand patriotic
For the Red White and Blue
Come Election Day!
Vote for the Red Elephant in the booth
All your fears will be soothed!
We will alleviate this menace
And disappear the uncouth!

 

Open communication on social media with the members is a testament to our commitment and character in forging a stronger union, not only in the traditional sense, but also in utilizing the new technologies for advocacy, unity, activism and promoting solidarity with workers everywhere who are being crushed in the Free Market economy.

An open tent for members to democratically have their voices heard promotes innovation, transparency and solidarity which in turn lets them feel that their importance as union members is not just based on their work history: Their union hall not just some temp agency, where they can go to find work, but also a place to enhance their civic duty and solidarity to their fellow members, family, and communities to help forge a better path for all workers.

Open communication and collaboration is a much better system than a closed off, non-transparent, non-activist, non-innovative, top down central bureaucratic system; which only sees workers as pegs to be filled in contractors holes whenever and however they need them.

We have entered a new era of communications, technology, and transparency; and the time is now to engage in a new type of thinking.

A thinking that can marshall the forces of the union workers to promote collaboration; the gathering and filtering of new ideas and strategies to promote a healthy activism to better prepare ourselves to make the case to the general public why we are the best defense against the new (since the Reagan years) fundamentalist Free Market capitalism.

All of our leaders should be using the new social media platform to enhance our reputation and standing in the broader communities; to promote activism and equal rights and justice for all workers (after all is this not what a Labor Leader is, not just someone who takes phone calls and hands out jobs, a temp clerk can fill that position).

With the new social media there is no excuse for Labor Leaders to be silent.

With the Free Market economy wreaking havoc on American workers (indeed, workers around the world) and statistics steadily coming out showing rampant inequality; with the 1% gaining a lion’s share of the gains while workers earnings remain stagnant, coinciding with the advances of the new social media platforms which allow for far more avenues to communicate with the general public and make the moral case for unions; to be rendered silent in the face of such mounting evidence and vast new ways of communication is to be complicit in the ongoing rape and pillaging of the American working class by Big Rich and Big Business; especially for so-called “Labor Leaders” who are elected and PAID accordingly; presumably to advocate and agitate in defense of and in solidarity with the well-being of their workers.

The shift to a more inclusive union, which mirrors the new ongoing social media platforms, which have rendered old modes of communication and hierarchy obsolete, cumbersome, non-transparent and ineffective needs to be undertaken.

By releasing ourselves from the vestiges of the old and keeping the very best of their educated instruction; Integrating in the new ideas, technologies, communications, collaborations, and culture, we can forge a much stronger and deeper solidarity with all of our members and the general public.
Not just focusing on our narrow interests, such as solely plugging in workers to meet contractors needs in the field, but on our common strengths as union members making the moral case for workers rights and economic fairness for all ordinary Americans in our communities and the general public.

Reminding and educating American citizens on the history of unions as a bulwark against the monied interests; the many advances that we have forged for the working class from previous labor struggles.

Most of all with a renewed commitment to excellence and principles, utilizing the new data driven technologies and social media technologies and culture, opening up the closed bureaucratic system to a more transparent and inclusive union which encourages making decisions in collaboration with its workers and appears literally, not just figuratively, as a union that is doggedly in pursuit of economic, social and political justice for workers everywhere.

Let us make The Appeal!