On AlterNet: beer

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "beer"

Payback Time: Wisconsin Progressives & Labor Ready For Recall Elections

Roger Bybee, In These Times. August 2, 2011.

Polls are favorable as progressives head into the recall elections of eight Wisconsin State Senate Republicans who supported Scott Walker's union-busting.

Seven Ways Scott Walker and the GOP Are Still Trying to Screw Wisconsin's Poor, Working Class, and Just About Everybody Else

Meredith Clark, AlterNet. June 15, 2011.

Wisconsin erupted in protest in February over an attempt to ban collective bargaining, but Gov. Scott Walker didn't stop there in his war on the people of his state.

In a Country Where 1 in 4 Beers Sold Is a Bud Light, Microbrews Are Showing Promising Growth

Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. August 4, 2010.

Independent craft brewers have established a significant niche over the last generation in the beer market, in an industry where six companies make 90 percent of the beer.

Beer Battles: Workers in Belgium Take on Brewing Giant

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. February 5, 2010.

Employees of Anheuser-Busch InBev blocked roads, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer in an effort to make their voices heard.

20 Weird, Crazy Ideas for Helping the Earth

WebEcoistNovember 21, 2009.

Many ideas for stemming environmental catastrophe have turned out to be impossible, dangerous, or just … ridiculous.

Put Down That Coors: Why We Should Be Boycoting Big Beer

Benjamin Dangl, CounterPunch. August 15, 2009.

One reason to boycott large breweries is the union busting, right wing culture that dominates some of the biggest breweries in America.

Corporate Media Playing the Hate Game, Aiming at Both Obama and Clinton

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 1, 2009.

Media bigs seem to have reached the conclusion that hatred sells, so they're embracing their inner sexists and inner racists.

Washington Post Video Suggests Hillary Drink "Mad Bitch" Beer

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 31, 2009.

Two WaPo reporters spoof the Gates suds-summit by suggesting brews for other notables.

NYT Puts Three Staffers on White House Beer Photo-Op Story

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 30, 2009.

It will, after all, resolve U.S. racial tension.

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

Mike Elk, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.

Women had come and gone, dogs had died, but Yuengling had always been there for me - until now.

This Law's for You: Home Brewers Score a Victory in Utah

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. March 6, 2009.

The home brewers' victory in Utah is one step to enabling the beer drinkers of the world to take back their brew from corporations.

Gang Bang Beer Ad Denounced by Guinness

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 15, 2008.

Misogynistic viral video was not created by Guinness; in fact they are making it clear that this is not how they do business.

Now Those Foreigners Are Trying to Take Our Beer!

Thers, Whiskey Fire AlterNet: PEEK. July 13, 2008.

This aggression will not stand.

Brewing Trouble: How to Drink Beer and Save the World

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. April 1, 2008.

Can corporate "globeerization" be fought through "beeroregionalism"?

The Longest Hangover: 23 Years as an Alcoholic

Tania Glyde, The Independent UK. February 12, 2008.

Getting plastered can only hide other problems for so long.

How Microbrew Can Save the World

Chris O'Brien, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 25, 2006.

Small-scale, homebrew beer production plays a vital role in sustainable development throughout the world.