Wellstone believed in this country, in it’s citizens and it’s workers. He believed that a strong public education system made this country a better place and gave people a chance to give their children a chance. He stood with the unions and he furiously opposed the invasion of Iraq. Wellstone was killed along with his [...]
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by Steve Ayers at IWW What Do We Face? Walker’s bill, if passed, will strip public-sector unions of the right to collectively bargain regarding all workplace issues other than basic wages. Workers would no longer have a legal say in their pensions, their healthcare plans, workplace safety, or any other pertinent issues. Without collective bargaining, [...]
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by Sarah El Deeb, Washington Post Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the section where minority Shiites live, leaving at least one man injured, as the government toughened its efforts to prevent a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world from reaching the kingdom. The rare violence raised concern about a [...]
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from Raw Story Facing down icy conditions, tens of thousands of union workers and supporters gathered outside Indiana’s statehouse Thursday to protest a bill that would strip all union workers of their bargaining rights. Like in Wisconsin, a number of the state’s elected Democrats have fled, preventing a vote from taking place. Also like Wisconsin, [...]
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Micheal Moore talking on Rachel Maddow’s show (yeah… I know) about the situation in Madison Wisconsin. This is class warfare. It’s been going on since the Reagan revolution (and beyond actually, since the Lewis Powell Memo and the American Liberty League got ready to overthrow the US government in ’34)… and yes, they seem to [...]
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from Huffington Post A months-long investigation into abusive mortgage practices by the Federal Reserve found no wrongful foreclosures, members of the Fed’s Consumer Advisory Council said Thursday. During a public meeting attended by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and other regulators, consumer advocates on the panel criticized federal bank regulators for narrowly defining what constitutes a [...]
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by Steven Webster, Raw Story Joe Conway, president of the Madison firefighters’ union, said recently that the political situation has grown so dire in Wisconsin, he’d support a general strike. “We should start walking out tomorrow, the next day … See how long they can last,” he told reporters with The Uptake. “This is a [...]
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by Scott Creighton For LIBERTY! Ron Paul just won his re-election to the House of Representatives and started up the new session of congress while one of the most contentious economic crisis is facing our nation and so what’s the Ron Paul Revolution hero doing? He’s asking his Paulites to dig a little deeper and help set him [...]
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(oh…. it’s on! Thousands have poured into the state Capitol as news of the republican led nuclear option hits the streets. They vow not to leave this time and chants of “general strike” are ringing out. The police simply let the protesters in the doors, guess they don’t like what the republicans tried to do [...]
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