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March 14, 2012
Labor Politics and the Captive Electorate of 2012
Big Labor Folds, Endorses Obama
by BRIAN TIERNEY
Back in 2010, Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.5
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath
slavery's heavy rod. - Solon -- (c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman,
lawmaker.
Government, in its last analysis, is organized force. - Woodrow Wilson
- (1856-1924) 28th US President
But what is tyranny? Or how can a free
Two Events with Cynthia McKinney
Friday, March 16th, 7:00 PM ~ At Topanga Community House ~ With Robert Scheer,
Lila Garrett, Marcy Winograd Frank Dorrel
Sunday, March 18th, 4:00 PM ~ At University of Southern California ~ National
Tour to Build PEOPLES POWER with John Parker Others!
Please help to spread the word about this important event!
Ron Gochez
Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer
Union del Barrio
Centro Cultural Francisco Villa
2100 Maple Ave. Los Anegles, CA 90011
www.uniondelbarrio.org
NationalTour to Build
PEOPLES POWER
Peoples Power
http://www.marxist.com/in-defence-of-the-syrian-revolution-the-marxist-perspective.htm
In Defence of the Syrian Revolution: The Marxist position on the
revolution and Assads so-called anti-imperialism Part
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Workshop Sat 3/31
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We need to take our country back from the avaricious corporatocracy
that feeds on the War Economy. The War Machine has our leadership ,
our Media and our very lives in its pocket. Everywhere health care,
education, and fundamental human rights have suffered . We , as
Americans and as members
If nothing changes, then nothing changes.
And the NO CHANGE, cost the Dems heavily in the 2010 election.
It's unforeseen what will happen in this one. Can the Republicans run
someone so scary the Republicans can't get votes? My bet is the Convention
will put Jeb Bush in, to pull their blind
Obama The Most Pro-War President In History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAjH2VFH8lwfeature=endscreenNR=1
See comment below video.
Sad isn't quite the word that describes how this makes me feel. Why does
the Democratic base tolerate this stuff?
If this was from RWers it would be full of
I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream
by Christopher Cooper
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/12-1
The whole thing is regrettable, really. Shocking, truth to tell.
And so sad, I’m sure, for those people, those blanket-wearing,
beard-growing,
http://www.marxist.com/in-defence-of-the-syrian-revolution-the-marxist-perspective-2.htm
In Defence of the Syrian Revolution: The Marxist position on the
revolution and Assads so-called anti-imperialism Part
Experience first-hand the change sweeping through Latin America in the areas of
food sovereignty, indigenous resistance, climate justice, and human rights
through a trip to Bolivia or Venezuela this summer.
Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Resistance, and Climate
Justice
Right click on this hyperlink to view DEMOCRACY NOW!
http://democracynow.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c55dbbfa32e541749065
a92aid=c4a2562e79e=b50a451910 Jeremy Scahill: Why is President Obama
Keeping Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye in Prison?
The Obama
snip
a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every
corporate news and entertainment outlet till it went viral.
snip
This alone is a major red flag, the Media only supports/promotes what
makes the .01% money and power, and or distracts us from all other things
of importance.
If
An Inside Glimpse Into the Nefarious Operations of Goldman Sachs
A Toxic System
by DARWIN BOND-GRAHAM
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/15/a-toxic-system/
Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith’s very public resignation, replete witha
pointed letter published in the New York Times yesterday, has
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2012/03/12#mutable Doonesbury
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2012/03/13#mutable Doonesbury
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Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure
of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a
rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet, it is
the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world
that yields
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From: Portside Moderator [ mailto:modera...@portside.org
mailto:modera...@portside.org]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-war-on-teachers-wh
y-the-public-is-watching-it-happen/2012/03/11/gIQAD3XH6R_blog.html
The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it happen.
This
As I stated to a so called solidarity activist from Australia, who defends
the corruption and false socialism of some within the Bolivian(MAS)
bureaucracy, I am also a critic of Venezuelan bureaucracy for the same
reasons but I defend the grassroots, workers and real socialism:
At this point in
It takes far more courage to take a stand for peace or justice then it
does to fight in battles as a warrior. It takes
more because you stand
alone. Because you stand for those who can't stand or speak for them
self. You stand for ideas that are far from what
Limbaugh's Ad Suspension: What it Means, and What We Should (and Shouldn't) Do
Now
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/851944/limbaugh%27s_ad_suspension%3A_what_it__means%2C_and_what_we_should_%28and_shouldn%27t%29_do_now/#comments
Tonight's news about Premiere suspending national
What have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a nation
of laws? Have we become instead a nation of men who make secret
arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of the federal
government law enforcement? Ron Paul
Campaigns don't change politics and a president doesn't
Only a few spaces left!
Social Media Day LA: Using Social Media to Educate, Inspire and Mobilize
Monday, March 19 2012, 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Antioch University, 400 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230
http://bit.ly/CNMSocialMediaDay2012
Hear from the experts on how social media can be
Dear folks,
Yesterday, I copied out the petition and all signatures on it to date and sent
it to Col. Pantano, the Army Corps of Engineers District Commander in
Jacksonville, Florida, who will make a decision on whether to grant Puerto
Rico's application to construct the Via Verde natural gas
Upside Down World
Covering Activism and Politics in Latin America
March 16, 2012
News, Action, and Analysis
Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
Mexico: Another Activist Murdered for Resisting a Canadian Mine
Latin America: Local Resistances, Global Movements
Mexican
Opps...seems ALBA is divided on the subjectCort
President of Bolivia, Evo Morales confirmed his attendance at the Summit of
the Americas to be held in Cartagena de Indias, 14 and April 15 next, after
meeting Thursday in Bogota with his president of Colombia Juan Manuel
Santos, who in turn
*THE AMERICAN SPRING BEGINS IN TWO WEEKS
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*Kevin Zeese sent us the latest on events
http://nowdc.org/content/american-spring-time-occupy-blossom starting
in Washington DC on the 30th of March to begin the next phase of the
Occupy Movement.
/Common Dreams/ has a report this morning
Up to 20 US troops behind Kandahar bloodbath – Afghan probe
http://rt.com/news/massacre-kandahar-soldier-american-705/
Published: 16 March, 2012, 11:33
Edited: 17 March, 2012, 03:42
U.S. armoured vehicles are
parked outside a US base in Panjwai district Kandahar province, March
11, 2012
Well well. Anything beat down in Congress and the Senate that is
oppressive to the peoples of the planet will keep rearing it's head.
While this was fought and stopped (or so we and the legislators thought)
Bush's TIA program comes back under Obama.
I'd ask why is the the worst things of one
*Chavez to Detail Campaign Plans Saturday*
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Chavez arrived in Caracas
At first I couldn't understand this, you know, why do territories get
delegates to the Demopublican conventions.
Then I realized, this has nothing to do with actually casting a vote, and
I was trying to figure this out as to how why it was good for the people
of the US territories.
It has
Done, and shared too.
Here is what my note said:
NO LONGER an AARP Member. You've worked against all non corporate health
care since the beginning, and each additional action gets thousands more
knowing what your doing.
Scott
I left them over their doing the hit ads against single payer, and
National Tour to Build
PEOPLES POWER
With
Cynthia McKinney, John Parker, KB Solomon Others!
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At The
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Josh Kun hosts 'A Night at The Ash Grove,' an event at the Grammy Museum,
April 5th.
I'll send you more on that tomorrow. -Ed
http://prospect.org/article/nightstick-turned-song
A Nightstick Turned into a Song
By Josh Kun
Prospect: March 15, 2012
Josh Kun is a professor at the University
There is a proposed law in Arizona that women who are taking birth control
pills have to tell their employers why (basically, that's the reason, although
it's couched in weasel words, of course).
Well, I'd like to see a law that says that men who are prescribed Viagra show
that they have never
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FILM DOCUMENTARY PAUL CONRAD: DRAWING FIRE
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AT APRIL 1 PUBLIC EVENT IN SANTA MONICA AT
VIDIOTS IN SUPPORT OF
Join RAC-LA tomorrow (Sunday) to cheer for Rene Jijon, long-term member of
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