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Viola Wilkins's Blog – May 2012 Archive (10)

Ratttle Those Pots and Pans

Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans
Get out from that yoke and rattle those ports and jobs
We'll, roll da Boss 'cause we're hungry Wobs
[Chorus:] I said Shake, rattle and roll - I said Shake, rattle and roll
I believe you're doin' me wrong and now I know
I believe you're doin' me wrong and now I know

The more I work, the faster my money goes…

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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 27, 2012 at 4:46 — No Comments

Bosses kidnap workers in Angola

Over 1200 Indian workers have been left stranded, and effectively held hostage by bosses in Angola after their passports and other travel documents were…
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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 21, 2012 at 0:46 — No Comments

No country for rich men

No Country for Rich Men  

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's wealthiest people are disconnecting into a class of stateless transients.

By Sam Pizzigati OtherWords May 14, 2012



http://www.otherwords.org/articles/no_country_for_rich_men



Back in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale's The Man without a Country told the tale…
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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 19, 2012 at 10:55 — No Comments

Union song wars

http://unionsong.com/u005.html



ACTU (Australian Class Traitors United) Congress in Sydney 2012 : Priceless ... Bon Hawke as Prime Minister was the union buster who fucked over the BLF in 1986, sent in the air-force to break the pilot's strike in 1990 has the bloody nerve to sing Solidarity Forever ? "Bump Me Into Parliament" wold be more…

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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 16, 2012 at 22:03 — 1 Comment

Legal Illegal

LEGAL ILLEGAL 

(by Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger)



Every you pick up the newspaper

Every time you switch on the TV

You can bet your old boots that at some point you'll see

A high-ranking copper or else an MP

Calling on all who are British & free

To stand up & defend law & order



It's…
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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 14, 2012 at 6:55 — No Comments

Also on May Day in Melbourne Australia:  "Masters" new (Bunnings style) hardware store site, Chifley Drive, Tuesday May 1st 6am; unloading scissor lift and forklift worker squashed and killed. Shane …

Also on May Day in Melbourne Australia: 
"Masters" new (Bunnings style) hardware store site, Chifley Drive, Tuesday May 1st 6am; unloading scissor lift and forklift worker squashed and killed. Shane Townsend was his name, unloading on his own in the rain. Tragedy, has two daughters. All ten Masters construction sites stopped work in memory of this…
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Added by Viola Wilkins on May 6, 2012 at 0:45 — No Comments

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