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  • U.S. in 2012: Food Riots, Tax Rebellions
    23 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Gerald Celente Predicts, Food Riots, Tax Rebellions
    Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/celente/celente66.1.html

  • (video) Koch brothers play self-serving role in Wisconsin battle
    3 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Multi-billionaire corporate magnates Charles and David Koch, major behind-the-scenes players in the dispute between Wisconsin public employees and Republican Gov. Scott Walker, stand to gain more than meets the eye from this epic battle.
    Buried deep inside Walker’s 144-page contested budget bill are 10 lines, unrelated to employee takeaways or union rights, which would allow the state to sell to or contract with a private corporation any state-owned heating, cooling and power plant, "with (…)

  • (video) Epic battle in Wisconsin is a taste of our power
    3 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Siân Ruddick looks at the stuggle in Wisconsin, which is changing the US
    The battle in Wisconsin has seen hundreds of thousands of US workers rediscover their power. In the most powerful protests for many years, public sector workers—with the support of students, war veterans, pensioners, local campaigners and even some police—have brought the city of Madison to a standstill.
    They have shown the US right that they will face determined resistance to any attacks they try to push through. (…)

  • (videos) New Jersey rallies to support Wisconsin workers
    2 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of trade unionists rallied in front of the state Capitol in Trenton last week in solidarity with the public workers of Wisconsin who are fighting back against, Scott Walker a righting governor trying to do in 2011 what he would not have dared to do in 1911, when Robert La Follette, Sr., the leading progressive reformer in the nation, was Wisconsin’s United States Senator.
    La Follette more than a century ago had led Wisconsin to become the most advanced state in the nation in (…)

  • WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!
    28 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Although it has been overshadowed by events in Libya and Egypt, there is a battle going on in the United States, and it is not hyperbole to suggest that it is a battle for the very soul of the nation.
    By current estimates, at least sixteen state governments are in the process of declaring war on American workers, and protests have erupted in at least four of them—Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
    Since all of these states are located in the same geographical area, I initially (…)

  • Video: Protest Action to Stop the Cut Off of Unemployment Benefits
    30 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday evening, Nov. 29, 2010, a protest action was staged in Baltimore, MD, in front of the Maryland State Unemployment Office. It was sponsored by the “Job is a Right Campaign,” among other activist-oriented social justice groups.

  • Nicaragua Sugar (Grupo Pellas) reinforces aid to CKD patients
    8 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Within the framework of the dialogue that has been maintained for more than one year between Nicaragua Sugar and ASOCHIVIDA, under the auspices of the Office of the Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank, a meeting was held by the parties last September 1, which was attended by Mr. Carlos Pellas, as irrefutable proof of the will of Grupo Pellas to support the former workers of Ingenio San Antonio affected by CKD.
    Although it has been scientifically proven that the (…)

  • Video: Authors Deborah Rudacille and Kari Lydersen Discuss Labor’s Legacies and Victories
    27 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Authors Deborah Rudacille and Kari Lydersen Discuss Labor’s Legacies and Victories from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Sunday afternoon, September 26, 2010, authors Kari Lydersen (Revolt on Goose Island) and Deborah Rudacille (Roots of Steel), discussed issues relating specifically to their two books; and then generally to the cause of Organized Labor in the U.S., via its legacies, victories and future.
    The event, held at Baltimore’s BookFest, in Mt. Vernon Square, was sponsored by Red (…)

  • Boycott Flor de Caña: There is no evidence linking Nicaragua Sugar to CKD
    11 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Boston University Public Health School recently presented its final report on the industrial health study it conducted in Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), in which it concludes that there is no evidence that the labor practices of the company have contributed to its workers developing Chronic Renal Disease (CKD / CRI).
    The research study team evaluated ISA’s labor practices during the 2009-2010 harvest, as well as the chemical products used by the company both now and in the past.
    “We found no (…)

  • Labor Day and the Easter Bunny
    3 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that millions of Americans struggled to bring into existence. Hundreds more died or were maimed or beaten, they were bloodied but they were not bent. They were shot at by national guardsman, policeman, sheriffs and hired thugs but were not turned back. They were turned out of their company houses during snowstorms. They had firehoses turned on them in subfreezing (…)