Roundup!

I keep trying to brainstorm something weekly to put up on Flip the Globe. Something that really captures the zeitgeist, that's both pop culture and fierce modern statement.

Unfortunately, Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber has already been claimed. Damn!

So instead, I decided to start with things that I already created during the week. I keep complaining about not having enough content for this blog, but really I'm putting out regular content all over the Internet. The series of tubes is full of my literally hamsters. So why not let some of those critters run around on a wheel over here for a while?

So submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society...Roundup!

* I got published in the Dominican Republic this week! La Nación Dominicana published a press release I wrote for the Pan American Development Foundation, about the organization's annual awards ceremony. This year one of the Heroes of the Hemisphere award recipients was Dominican native Amarilis Castillo, who works to improve Dominican-Haitian border relations. Warning! It's in Spanish.

* The same press release was also published in El Nuevo Diario, in the Dominican Republic. Also in Spanish.

* I got printed in Brazil, too! EPTV.com and Rural Notícias published my press release about another Heroes of the Hemisphere winner, Henrique Gelinski. Gelinski works with rural farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. He's amazing! These are in Portuguese.

I wrote two blog posts for American Rights at Work this week as well. In English! The one I'm most proud of is about how Regis Corporation, the company who controls salons like Cost Cutters and Master Cuts, has been issued a complaint by the National Labor Relations Board. Regis was forcing their employees to sign away their right to join a union. Illegal!

A lot of the pressure on Regis started in Ithaca, NY, and I learned about it when I was writing my article about the Tompkins County Workers' Center back in April and May. It's nice to know that justice has been finally been served. Or is at least in the process of being served.

The other piece I wrote was about the recent mid-term election and how the fight for workers' rights will continue. The election definitely did not go in the direction I wanted, but that doesn't mean we lost! Just means workers need to fight harder to protect their rights.

That's all she wrote! And by she, I mean me.

Tune in next week for some really cool slide shows I'm making for I'm United for Haiti!