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re-Posted on April 4, 2011 by OrsanSenalp at  …
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Added by Orsan Senalp on April 4, 2011 at 13:00 — No Comments

Closing Jails In Owen Sound and Walkerton

Like it was yesterday! I remember Dalton McGuinty saying on the night he was first elected that he was going to treat the public service with respect; the respect it had so lacked under the Mike Harris regime of "scorched earth". Here we are years later and McGuinty has heaped out a lot of respect. Not much of it towards the public service and the thousands of employees that provide the services that many of us need everyday, but respect…
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Added by Dave Trumble on April 3, 2011 at 22:34 — No Comments

An Open Letter to People of the West (Omar Barghouti, BDS Movement, Huffington Post)

Peter sez:
I appreciate this piece for its unusual message: that the Arab Spring provides lessons not just for its tyrants or for less rebellious regions of the Global South but for the Global North. It has, for me, a strong message or challenge to those in the labour and other solidarity movements of the latter. You…
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Added by peter waterman on April 3, 2011 at 8:04 — No Comments

Networked Politics – Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks

Networked Politics – Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks

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Hilary Wainwright, Oscar Reyes, Marco Berlinguer, Fiona Dove, Mayo Fuster I Morrell and Joan Subirats (eds)

15 May 2007

Abstract

Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. In a world where the traditional institutions…

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Added by Orsan Senalp on April 2, 2011 at 21:40 — No Comments

Fear eats your soul (불안은 영혼을 잠식한다네)

u can enjoy my song in my page left frame_my music.

I wrote this song in korean. but you can enjoy this with my translation.

now it's not easy to sing a song in English. song rhythm and melodeis are just for korean lyrics

maybe for singing in English. I should change some lyrics.



you know in this song, 'you' means people who regards stranger, other communtiy, immigrant worker as a just strange stranger



Fear eats your soul



– inspired by german movie…

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Added by chung hoyoung on April 1, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments

South Korea : KPTU launched new organization 'Public Forum'

Public Sevices is People's Friend

It was very…

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Added by Donghwan Ko on April 1, 2011 at 6:48 — No Comments

Active activism

Yesterday, March 30th 2011, I went to Cortland, NY protesting New York's budget and demanding a "Fair Budget" Rally!

It was invigorating. The crowd of union workers, public and private was about 200 strong. The speakers were mostly fiery and articulate. 

Then it was over and everybody smiled and went home; including me.

This coming Monday, April 4th, will mark a day of national protest and action. All over the USA there will be rallies held to protest the huge cuts to…

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Added by Rick White on April 1, 2011 at 2:27 — No Comments

enjoy my songs including songs about baghat Singh(my lyric) and Kabir(Kabir's poem)

before my comming to India, We had a time to arrange L'internationale. people who had listened our version said "you are very irritated at the thought of which revolution is not comming in vexation".  ya i know it's not related to revolution. it was just their joke and did not hide their feeling. really really noise coz of my dry & rough voice.



anyway enjoy my song writing and singing in left frame my music.

I hope indian comrade to enjoy my songs about baghat Singh(my…

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Added by chung hoyoung on March 31, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments

IWW song

Conditions they are bad, And some of you are sad;

You cannot see your enemy, The class that lives in luxury,

–You workingmen are poor, –Will be for evermore,

–As long as you permit the few To guide your destiny.

Shall we still be slaves and work for wages?

It is outrageous—has been for ages;

This earth by right belongs to toilers, And not to spoilers of liberty.

The master class is small, But they have lots of "gall."

When we unite to…

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Added by Viola Wilkins on March 30, 2011 at 22:04 — No Comments

The US State-Funded 'Solidarity Centre': The Debate Begins With Egypt...

I would like to add, to the valuable contributions of others, my initial and unstructured reflections on the the role of the US state-funded Solidarity Centre, the major instrument of the AFL-CIO in the Global South. These others are Kim Scipes, who has written a substantial recent book about the SC and Michael Barker, on the SC in Egypt, about whom Kim has just posted an item on UBook:…

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Added by peter waterman on March 30, 2011 at 20:13 — 4 Comments

The London Protest Against 'Austerity' (via Patrick Bond, Debate)

200 injured in London protest

2011-03-27 09:02



London - More than 250 000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II - one of the largest…

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Added by peter waterman on March 30, 2011 at 17:33 — No Comments

Critical evaluation of AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center report, "Justice for All," re Egyptian Workers

I just posted the following message on the e-mail list of the North American-based United Association for Labor Education (UALE), but I thought it might be of international interest, so I'm reposting it on Union Book.

 

Folks--

 

One of the most heartening things to me about our [March 23-26, 2011] conference in New Orleans was the attention paid to building international labor solidarity.  I think this is really great stuff, and I hope it expands…
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Added by Kim Scipes on March 30, 2011 at 8:47 — 1 Comment

Good article on Ontario's Bill 150 - attack on public-sector workers

The Right to Strike in Ontario: Time to Get Serious

by Gord Wilson

The purpose of the Ontario Government's Bill 150 is effectively to break the union. When the employer says “no” at the bargaining table, and you can't walk out in support of your bargaining objectives, then you have to ask yourself with respect to unions: “what is the purpose of being there?”

 

full:…

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Added by Pance Stojkovski on March 29, 2011 at 21:46 — No Comments

More than a documentary, it's a vehicle for a global movement for corporate accountability and union rights

'The Coca-Cola Case'

More than a documentary, it's a vehicle for a global movement for corporate accountability and union rights.

By Tom Sandborn, March 25, 2011, TheTyee.ca


http://thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2011/03/25/CocaColaCase/

"Imagine living under conditions that mean simply joining a…

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Added by Lew Friedman on March 28, 2011 at 18:24 — No Comments

Syria general strike (Lebanon next ?)

SYRIA: MASS PROTESTS & STATE TERROR



1. Latest news:



Syrian activists called today for a nationwide GENERAL STRIKE in the wake of a crackdown on anti-government protesters that has left dozens dead.



2. To learn more about the recent developments please read today's Haaretz report:



The unrest sweeping the Arab world spread across Syria over the weekend as tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated against President Bashar Assad's regime in… Continue

Added by Viola Wilkins on March 27, 2011 at 22:59 — No Comments

Melbourne premier of Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Come to a special screening of a new film about Mumia, the most recognised death row inmate in the world today. In 1982, he was tried and convicted for the murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Since then his case has become one of the most contested legal cases in history.  A former Black Panther and now…

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Added by Freedom Socialist Party on March 27, 2011 at 18:30 — No Comments

Global Compact (Unions Serving Business Public Relations) Losing Halo? (via Jeff Ballinger)



Peter sez:
I thought from the get-go that the Global Compact, in which major national and international unions have taken prominent part, was a pile of global compost. But, then, I am a long-standing critic of all and any 'social partnership' ideology and institutions in so far as they imply the self-subordination of labour to inter/national capital and inter/national state…
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Added by peter waterman on March 27, 2011 at 16:10 — No Comments

BOYCOTT GUGGENHEIM!

BOYCOTT GUGGENHEIM!

We at DAMTP are supporting the boycott of Guggenheim reasoned on arguments of “group of leading artists, curators, writers, and others” (http://gulflabor.wordpress.com/) and therefore demand for immediate quit with inhuman exploitation of workers on Saadiyat Island, the location of the new museum – the Abu Dhabi branch of…

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Added by DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychiq on March 27, 2011 at 11:21 — No Comments

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