Thursday, January 20, 2011

MADE IN DAGENHAM

aloha 2u,

"Its easy to do anything in victory. Its in defeat that a man reveals himself."
Floyd Patterson, former black heavyweight champ in the 60s.
y'all watcth closely now...
da Shock Doctrine enforced austerity measures are coming atcha...


BTW when the dictator Ben Ali (sp?) fled Tunisia
i turned to Soul Mate and say
" wait until they find out how badly he looted the Treasury,
besides the Swiss Bank Accounts."
turns out and his Crime Family took of with ONE AND A HALF TONS OF GOLD
in their private jet which eventunally landed in Saudi Arabia
after France turned them away, they already had Baby Doc at the time.
TANGENT OVER

MADE IN DAGENHAM is a feel good inspirational true story.
part of Soul Mate's b'day present.in the 1960s,back  when i was young and virile,
the Ford plant in Dagenham England was paying the "industrial seamstresses"
wh habd sewed the car seats, half what ther men were making.
HALF.

so after the usual mealy mouthed and management promises their organizer
suggested they try a work stoppage which lead to a full blown strike
despite the Good Old Boys back room double dealing.
the film critic, nay the Banal Film Critic of the local fishwrap,
clled this film " a light after dinner mint" next to Blue Valentine.
have not seen BV but it must be god awful next to the
determined working class struggle heroics of MID.

EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK, 
AN END TO GENDER INEQUALITY
 this happend all over Europa in the 1960s,
here wimmin still make about 78 cents for every
$ a man makes, if anybody is still working class here anymore.
so much for The Greatest Country in the World (sic).
sigh, long protracted un-passed ERA sigh.

BTW my 50 year old Massage Therapist took her
almost 13 year old dottir to see Black Swan,
on my recommendation and both LOVED IT.

just got back from PT and am feeling too relaxed to bitch about anything..ALMOST.
"CHANGE WE CAN BERLIEVE IN"
oh really?\
yeah right.

namaste
mega

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