More bizarre dreams last night - i was fratronizing with a magical tree woman and her two young tree children.  Yeah, i know, i need help. 

 

Today's Register reports on the effects of the NLRBush ruling for workers at Yale.  Tom Conroy celebrates Graduate Students return to the metaphorical plantation, claiming that the ruling

"restores graduate assistants to their historic status as primarily students," something the university believes "is best for the students and for the nation’s higher education system.

Mary Reynolds, Chair of GESO (the Register woefully misrepresents the effects of the union's organizing over the last decade, calling them unsuccessful and uncritically referencing the May 2003 election to claim that the union was "rejected because of its organizing methods") situates the ruling in the context of the Bushist assault on workers' rights and affirms that contrary to Conroy's jubiliant and offensive evocations of the imagery quelled rebellions ("restoration?"), the underlying causes which have led graduate teachers and researchers at private universities as well as public ones to organize themselves will not dissappear simply because the state has stripped away their right to organize.  Richard Hurd predicts that there won't be more new organizing drives until the NLRB is again controlled by a democratic majority.  This seems like movement suicide though.

Alright, that's enough for now.  I'm going to Coney Island to see some free music.