Our featured guest today is Bill Fletcher Jr., an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com, senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum, and the co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice.” For a more detailed bio, please go to http://tinyurl.com/3wdbmmj Bill and I will chat about a variety of issues. good reading on Obama 2012 ... http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/bill-fletcher-jr-obama-2012-and.h...

We will also hear from J. David Gray – our resident scribe – for another segment of our SYNERGY project. my image “harbour view” inspired David’s essay. be sure to view the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or http://www.jimlynchphotography.com David’s other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

Music today from the Lowell George era of the band Little Feat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Feat