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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
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h/t to GPNYS.org Howie Hawkins, (right) Green Party candidate for governor of New York State, supports other union members at the contract negotiation Kickoff Rally for IUE CWA 81359.
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from DemocracyNow.org On Capitol Hill, two Democratic senators have joined with Republicans to block the nomination of a union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. The lawyer, Craig Becker, has worked for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union. By a 52-to-33 vote, Democrats fell short of the sixty needed to […]
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PeaceSmiths Coffeehouse Friday, December 11, 2009 at 8pm First United Methodist Church in Amityville $7 suggested donation, more if possible, less if necessary. Music by: George Mann (Singer/songwriter, labor singer, friend and supporter of the late Julius Margolin) Poetry by: Kathaleen Donnelly Presentation on a project for veterans by: George Mann Finale music by: George […]
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from City Hall But even with Data & Field Services in place, through last year, the Party continued having campaigns pay for canvassers directly out of their own campaign treasuries. Though this staff was recruited, trained and managed by the Party, it is the candidates who were given the bills in a manner which avoids […]
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(excerpt from) The Albany Times Union State judge blocks mandatory vaccinations October 16, 2009 at 2:08 pm by Casey Seiler The temporary restraining order was issued in State Supreme Court in Albany by Judge Thomas McNamara, one of the few people to emerge from the coup crisis looking like a responsible grownup. From the AP:
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The former chief executive of a window factory that gained notoriety for a worker sit-in has been arrested and held on $10 million bond. Richard Gillman is accused of conspiring to launder funds from Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors factory and secretly removing its equipment. The alleged offenses came around the time Gillman abruptly ordered […]
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from Raw Story Insurers’ delays are ‘almost … like murder,’ Sutton said The woman whose life inspired the 1979 film Norma Rae has died of cancer after struggling with her health insurance company, which had delayed her treatment. Crystal Lee Sutton was 68. She had struggled for several years with meningioma, a form of brain […]
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Calling organized labor’s support for Democrats an “investment that hasn’t paid off,” Green Party leaders appealed to unions and all working Americans, calling for support for the election of Green candidates to Congress in the 2010 election. On Labor Day 2009, Greens expressed their solidarity with working people with a call to “come home to […]
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Workers strike after health care yanked :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business Unionized workers launched a strike at SK Hand Tool Corp.’s Chicago and McCook sites Tuesday after the company dropped employees’ health insurance coverage without notice, according to a Teamsters official. The company’s action in May has left some workers saddled with costly medical bills […]
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Random thoughts on Obama’s school speech
The full text of the speech, as released by the White House previously, is: here. Kimberly writes: In my house, we are just not amused by status quo politicians. So, I tried not have a lot of hot feelings either way about Obama making a speech for school children, or the right wing response to […]
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