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January 2011 Blog Posts (111)
"Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune"
Saw "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune" yesterday. The film is a biography of the singer-songwriter/journalist who died at the age of 35, but not before writing and singing great songs for the Movement. Phil Ochs wrote about civil rights, war and labor. Here's the first lines of "Hazard, Kentucky." Sounds like today:…
ContinueAdded by Lew Friedman on January 6, 2011 at 18:22 — No Comments
Trickle Down economics
Colbert Report said this tonight:
" There's a new drink called the "Trickle Down" - your bartender keeps on giving your drink to the rich guy next to you until he vomits it in your glass!"
Added by Viola Wilkins on January 6, 2011 at 14:37 — No Comments
A 21st Century Manifesto for Labour [English/Espanyol]
Peter sez:
This video is by Carlos Tovar, better known in Peru as Carlin, the political cartoonist of 'La Republica', a major Peruvian daily. He is proposing a global strike for a four-hour working day. I would like to see it as a major contribution toward some kind of global labour charter. But I would like to know what others think.
Now click on...
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ContinueAdded by peter waterman on January 5, 2011 at 23:00 — 4 Comments
Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration website is online, join in!
GAIA is online and looking for its fellows!
http://openfsm.net/projects/gaia/summary
I am glad to let you know that GAIA as an open/wiki social network union experiment has been launched recently. Everybody can join in now on the fellowship base, wihout being have to leave our local/national union membership, and contribute to the formation of a unioque semi-structured union space.
Below is…
ContinueAdded by Orsan Senalp on January 5, 2011 at 11:14 — No Comments
Obama's Assault on Working People Only Possible Because of the Support by the Trade Union Officialdom to Obama and the Democrats
(Presentation by Alan Benjamin, Editor of The Organizer newspaper, to the Open World Conference in Algeria -- November 28, 2010)
Dear Sisters and Brothers:…
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Added by Brian Ross Ashley on January 4, 2011 at 20:41 — No Comments
In KPTU we have difficult struggles(2)
Bus workers struggle for democratic labor union
More than 50 years bus workers worked under yellow union. The yellow union in bus company didn't represent workers, but management. December in 2010 bus workers in Jeon-ju city, south eastern area of South Korea, went on strike for achieving democratic labor union in their workplace.
The bus…
ContinueAdded by Donghwan Ko on January 4, 2011 at 2:42 — No Comments
DOCUMENTO: Apoyemos a la Federación Italiana de Obreros Metalúrgicos
Gracias a la Escuela de Traductores de Parapanda ( y a los blogs sindicales que dan la hora: …
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Added by Carlos Mejia A. on January 3, 2011 at 23:04 — No Comments
Tax Base and The Industrial Sector
Tax Base and The Industrial Sector
The new year is hardly underway and the mainstream media has already jumped on the issue of budget deficits as proclaimed with alarming and accelerating regularity by all levels of unelected and elected government officials. It should be no surprise that when the source of is this information is sourced that…
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Added by Dave Trumble on January 3, 2011 at 22:43 — No Comments
Published in the Toronto Star, Jan. 3, 2011 ( http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/913038--the-ndp-keep-the-faith-and-turn-left )
The NDP: Keep the faith and turn left
Added by Dave Trumble on January 3, 2011 at 17:56 — No Comments
DAMTP congress newspaper issue 1 OUT NOW - Available online at http://antisystemic.org/SW/DAMTP1.pdf
DAMTP congress newspaper issue 1 OUT NOW - Available online at
http://antisystemic.org/SW/DAMTP1.pdf
For hard copies please reply with your postal address!
Our alliance of Alytus art strike biennial action committee and DAMTP’s
are inviting you to join us at the world congress we are planning to hold
in Alytus on 22nd -28th August, 2011. Our aim is to gather world wide
radical antiautoritaric… Continue
http://antisystemic.org/SW/DAMTP1.pdf
For hard copies please reply with your postal address!
Our alliance of Alytus art strike biennial action committee and DAMTP’s
are inviting you to join us at the world congress we are planning to hold
in Alytus on 22nd -28th August, 2011. Our aim is to gather world wide
radical antiautoritaric… Continue
Added by DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychiq on January 3, 2011 at 12:14 — No Comments
Here is a good list every nation should adopt.
(This list is shown and Sen Long's achievements are at http://www.hueylong.com/life-times/index.php)
In a national radio address in February 1934, U.S. Senator Huey Long unveiled a plan called Share Our Wealth, a program
designed to provide a decent standard…
Added by Joseph Skues on January 2, 2011 at 22:49 — No Comments
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