Voices

My friend Stacy, who lives in Massachusetts, recently awoke in the middle of the night to a loud pounding. She went downstairs to see a light coming through a hole where a man had taken a hammer and had already burst a hole in her door. She yelled that she was going to call the police. He ran.

In the 1970’s, civic minded visionaries created a federal plan to insure that the corporate cable giants wiring our communities would have to share a piece of the profit with the people, public access television was born.

I've never been a member of a union. In fact, I was raised in an anti-union family. My father-in-law broke a union picket line as a management-level worker before I was married. My lens was always from the management side of the labor equation.