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The last place you will hear about the new American labor movement is in big American outlets.
Via lambert, via susie. See them, their blogrolls, Twitter hash tag #1u and just about any other outlet where citizens can get the word out. Such as:
Service Employees International Union and its Fight for a Fair Economy site in Ohio.
Many state and local sites such as the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association and AFSCME Council 8.
The Pragmatic Progressive Forum
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
The CIW is a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. Via.
Who funds the right wing noise machine?
You do, when you buy the following products from Koch Industries:
Quilted Northern®
Angel Soft®
Brawny®
Sparkle®
Soft ‘n Gentle®
Mardi Gras®
Vanity Fair®
Dixie® brand
Georgia-Pacific Building Products
European brands:
Lotus®
Colhogar®
Delica®
Tenderly®
Demak’Up®
…and more.
Memo to AP: Don’t be stupid.
Mourn ya till I join ya
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 04:26PM Last week it was trouble with Britain, this week it’s Canada:
You get one bite at the asylum apple, the agreement says, because you will get a fair shake in either country. But the deal, known as the Safe Third Country Agreement, sets conditions based on the international conventions, and Justice Phelan said the United States had in recent years not lived up to them.
This is who we’re alienating. We have begun to exhaust the patience of longtime friends and allies. This is why “Just wait till 1/20/09” is a bad idea. The Prodigal Man can still do a great deal of damage until then.
Q: What’s the difference between the current and former Attorney General?
A: Ethnicity.
In practice (via TPM) that’s how it’s working. His qualifications and history are irrelevant because he’s been handling his new position in the same corrupt manner as his predecessor.
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