Archive for the ‘verizon’ Category

What the Hell is with this Phone Bill?

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Ever wonder what all those sneaky little fees are doing on your phone bill.  Well guess what, it's the telecom companies playing paddy cake with the FCC and other government agencies.  More subsidies for the one percent.  Here's a good piece from AlterNet by David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick. As a ...

Verizon is the Poster Child of Corporate Greed

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

Verizon workers occupied 11-11 on Friday at the OccupyWallStreet encampment in lower Manhattan.   They came to drop a dime on the Telecom behemoth, to let the public know that Verizon is the poster child of corporate greed. [caption id="attachment_569" align="aligncenter" width="611" caption="IBEW 827 members drop a dime on Verizon"][/caption] Toting signs ...

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Verizon, Occupy Everything

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

West Street in New York City rocked with the rhythms of worker's power on Friday night as about 1000 Verizon workers and their allies rallied to stand up for the 99 percent and to say no to corporate greed.  The Verizon building at 140 West Street feeds much of  financial ...

Wanted for Economic Terrorism: Lowell McAdam

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Wanted Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is a one percenter who thinks that working people make far too much money.  Lowell and his ruling class brothers and sisters along with their flunky and obedient politicians are responsible for the destruction of the world economy and the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of ...

March Against Verizon Corporate Greed Friday Oct. 21. 5:30 PM

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

This Friday evening, Oct. 21, together with Occupy Wall Street, Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers will march to protest Verizon corporate greed. Please join us. We will assemble at 140 West Street between 4 and 5 p.m., march east on Barclay Street and then down Broadway. We should ...

Verizon Bosses walk away from table: Unions unite with Occupy Wall Street

Friday, October 14th, 2011

It's October, the apples are ripe on the trees and the time is ripe to throw wood on the fire of class struggle.  The country's ablaze with working people who are scorching mad about the corporate class' s burning desire to squeeze every last dime out of our pockets.  OccupyWallStreet ...

Mike Bloomberg, half pint piece of shit!

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

I always knew that Mike Bloomberg was a half pint piece of shit, but his promise to throw #ocupywallstreet out of Liberty Square so the park can be "cleaned" is the epitome  of ruling class gall.  The place is probably cleaner than Lil' Mike's skivvies.  Here's a picture of Mike ...

Union Workers occupy VZW store Roosevelt, Minn.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Fists in the air and voices raised union rebels from the AFL-CIO Nextup11 Young Workers Summit occupied a Verizon Wireless store in Roosevelt, Minn on Saturday.   The militant action which lasted about 45 minutes shocked the store manager. The workers demanded that Verizon bosses settle the current contract dispute and share ...

That wasn’t the fat lady. It was #Chris Christie in drag.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Hey Verizon bosses, this fight ain't over it's only just begun. That wasn't the fat lady you heard singing it was Fatso Christie in drag.  The fat slob governor and Verizon's effete elite exec Lowell McGreedy are neighbors who live in, that cesspool of ruling class vermin, Mendham, NJ. [caption id="attachment_392" ...

Verizon Bosses say, “Divide and Conquer.” We say, “Please Don’t Duck.”

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_340" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Verizon ad tries to divide workers"][/caption] With the "great power" of their "superior" intellect and  imaginations -- diluted, unfortunately, by blue blood inbreeding -- the Verizon bosses have  reached into their billion dollar bag of tricks and come up with a brilliant plan --  divide and conquer.  ...