A good part of the reason I started blogging was because I went to a history conference at a UT branch up between Dallas and Fort Worth and found that, contrary to belief, many well known academic historians have found community history projects to be invaluable because of their focus and details. Photos rated high. Photos with details rate high. Interviews with participants in events rated high. Interviews with older people rated high if you cover their experience and perspective.- Prairie Weather
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 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.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 09:51AM No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post
This is why I support naturalizing all illegal immigrants: they show amazing initiative. Best line from a news story this year, maybe ever:“They said they were going to bring money, but they came with bats,” a police spokesman told the Greenwich Time newspaper.Where is YouTube when you really need it?
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