Fed up with low pay, dangerous conditions, and months away from their families, the crew of the SS Richard DeVos mutiny. When the owners of the ore freighter refuse their modest demands, the men initiate the second phase of their stratagem: recruiting the crew of the SS Jay VanAndel to join them in navigating their massive vessels, now armed and fortified, to block all access to the Soo Locks, effectively halting Great Lakes shipping.
4. Super Hijinks by Will Clifton
With gas prices soaring and take-home pay tanking, contract truck drivers team up with Teamsters to enact a sure-fire plan to grab the attention of the beltway bosses. The truckers deploy a series of 5-mile long convoys to the bridges connecting Canada and the United States at Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault St. Marie, where they put their rigs–and the NAFTA Superhighway–in park.
3. What's Up, Dock? by Terrence Garcia
The San Francisco shipyards are the scene of this Catch 22-esque send-up of work and war in which conflicting orders cause confusion, calamity, and the comedic collapse of global commerce! How long should it take to inspect every last container entering the country for every last terror threat anyway?!
2. A Tradition Unlike Any Other by Tim Frantz
Leading the Masters golf tournament by a comfortable ten strokes going into the final round, the legendary Lion Forests arrives at Augusta National Sunday morning to a most unnerving sight. Overnight, eighteen green-hoodie-clad troublemakers have managed to handcuff themselves to the bottom of each cup, on each hole, each also handcuffed to about one hundred other hoodlums! Per etiquette, all the golfers, television networks, sponsors, and fanatics can muster is a sheepish, "Fore."
1. The Weary Canal by Wael al-Khawaja
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1. The Weary Canal by Wael al-Khawaja
The year is 2017, six years after the democratic uprisings of 2011's "Arab Spring." Yet despite even the abdication of the Saudi king in 2013, jubilation is hard to find in any of the countries that had inspired the world, and each other, just a few short years before. The reason? The numbing redundancy of money, oil, power. The militaries once thought to be with the people have been bought off by a nameless and nationless cartel of the super-duper rich, bent on capturing and controlling the region's oil fields. Under the command of Libya's Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, serving as strongman for the clandestine oil barons, the armies of North Africa are engaged in a campaign of terror and repression that would make the late Muammar Gaddafi squeamish. The U.S. is not on the beat, distracted fighting an insurrection of its own since the dubious 2016 election of President Rubio, who is content to play ball with the cabal, trading weaponry for oil for reasons America and the Middle East are all too familiar. For the common people of both hemispheres, the future is as bleak as the present. That is, until a group of young food service workers for the Suez Canal Authority hatch and execute an audacious plan that cripples the canal and chokes off the fuel, firepower, and funding that constitute all the masters stand on and for. The brashness and idealism of these young men and women re-inspires the rest with a renewed steadfastness, a new spirituality, an indomitable solidarity.
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