While many a progressive folk and organization are celebrating the victory of Barack Obama and intently watching the formation of his administration, the winds of a Depression are howling at our doorsteps.  Most all economic indicators are rapidly drawing their dangerous spiral downward; while the current and future administrations are refueling the coffers of the rich.  And so those of us who care must now turn our attention to the immediate needs of our communities as well as the serious economic issues facing our cities.

Lord knows what will happen in ‘09 but I for one feel the winds of the great Depression growing stronger every day.  And sadly with Obama surrounding himself with hawks, free traders, free marketers, de-regulators and assorted Clintonites ~ Change may simply become the political jingle that feeds Read more »

‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY
By Jerimarie Liesegang of Queers without Borders

Twas the night before Black Friday, when all through the store,
Not a cash register was ringing, not even a penny rolling on the floor;

The sale signs were hung with the rollback prices near,
In hopes that the greedy capitalists would soon appear;

The store associates were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of the morning cheer and squiggle danced in their heads;
And the Managers with their Walkie Talkies and the CEO with his serpent,
Had just settled down for a long winters holiday enslavement,
When out in the parking lot there arose such a clatter,
That the Blackwater Guard sprang from his post to see what was the matter,
Away to the front doors he sprang like a flash,
Tore open the cash registers and threw aside the cash,
When, to the Blackwater guards’ wondering eyes should appear,
But a hijacked manger, so devilish and near,
That he knew in a flash it must be the Queers,
With a little old driver, who looked like the messiah, Read more »

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