Revolutionary Worker Scholar
A Column of Short Stories about the world of work
Get Rich
Get Rich
By Revolutionary Worker Scholar
It was the last day of my security guard job. I had a stain in the collar of my blue shirt that refused to come out and the scent that a skunk shared with me during my nightly bike ride home 5 months ago still lingered on my fur (fake) lined security officer’s jacket.
Filipino American History Month
Who is to say the weeds Are not the roots?
Who is to say the roots Are not the weeds?
-–Poet Al Robles from the poem "Tagatac in Ifugao Mountain"
Nelson
Nelson
Nelson was this big
Irish kid that lived
Up the street from
My grandma
He used to hang out
With this black kid
Named "D" who lived
Near him
Nelson’s hair was brown
And unkempt which
Made it all the more
Beautiful
He wore Ben Davis pants
And sometimes he’d walk
Sayaw Ng Mandirigma (Dancing with the warriors)
The journey to the homeland for a worker, a father an Escrimador!
Elder Abuse within the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
3 Minutes (...and Counting)
Earth, Wind and Obama
An open letter to Barack Obama from PNN
