Preface This year marks the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, which also marks the beginning of what I call below the modern environmental movement. In 2019 and the first part of 2020 militant … [Read more...]
Interview on “Wake Up KSFR” Santa Fe, NM
https://www.ksfr.org/post/author-david-ranney-presents-living-and-dying-factory-floor-santa-fe-collected-works … [Read more...]
Interview with Allen Ruff on the show “APA” Today on WORT Madison, Wisconsin
Doug Storm Interviews David Ranney About His New Book “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor”
WFHB Interchange: Unmade in America, The wages of Factory Work.Host: Douglas Storm interviews David Ranney about his new book “Living and Dying on the Factory … [Read more...]
On Violence and the Value of Life
The following is a transcription of an address I gave to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County. A few weeks ago, 73 people were shot in three predominantly black neighborhoods of … [Read more...]
There ain’t no justice, just us
The following is an excerpt from my book which will be released in the coming year. The excerpt was originally published by the journal Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life. Hard Crackers is, in … [Read more...]
Foxconn: The Myth and Reality of the Welfare Queen
Both this essay and the previous essay on Foxconn are published in the February, 2018 issue of the electronic journal, Insurgent Notes. www.insurgentnotes.com Readers are encouraged to check out … [Read more...]
The Foxconn Con
A gush of political hot air accompanied the announcement in late July that Foxconn, a Taiwan based electronics manufacturing giant, would locate a new plant with 13,000 workers near Kenosha, … [Read more...]
Is “Human Nature” a Barrier to a World Without War, Environmental Destruction and Inequality?
The following is a transcript of a talk I gave to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County at their Sunday Service on 4-10- 16. It is their custom for speakers to begin with a children’s … [Read more...]
Breaking Our “Mind Forged Manacles” In An Age Of Global Violence
A Message to The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County, Wisconsin, June 14, 2015 I must confess to being a bit of a news junky. I start the day looking at a variety of news sources on TV, … [Read more...]
