Black Caucus Stands in Solidarity with Wisconsin Workers
WASHINGTON – Chairman Emanuel Cleaver II, Congresswoman Gwen Moore and the Congressional Black Caucus sent the following letter to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin in support of workers rights. The...
View ArticleLatino Organizations Support Workers and Collective Bargaining
USHLI Joins with 19 National Latino Organizations United in Opposition to Brutal Attacks against Workers and Collective Bargaining Chicago - The United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI)...
View ArticleWe're Not Backing Down
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Rally for National Nurses Union at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC March 04, 2011 Thank you, nurses, for your dedication and your guts! Thank...
View ArticleRewriting the Social Contract and Making Everybody Hurt
Original source: BlackCommentator.com David Brooks wants to rewrite the nation’s social contract. Not only that, the New York Times columnist and PBS personality wants the idea enshrined in a new...
View ArticleFood Safety in the Era of Obama
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What specific issues and protections are covered by the Food Safety Modernization Act recently signed into law? -- P. Palmerino, New York,...
View ArticleSome Georgia Immigration Bills Advance, Others Stagnate or Fail
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News (APN) ATLANTA -- With several immigration-related bills introduced this year in the Georgia Legislature, some of the most sweeping measures--modeled after...
View ArticleOn Women’s Day, GOP Attacks Women
Not like Valentine’s Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Mother’s Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Women’s Day is about equality and autonomy. The first...
View ArticleAmerica Is NOT Broke
Delivered in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, March 5th, 2011.America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and...
View ArticleDomestic Workers Celebrate Women's Day
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (3/6/11) -- A coalition of domestic workers' and other low wage workers' organizations celebrate Women's Day, and launch an effort to get the state of California to pass a bill of...
View ArticleMichigan Scientists Urge support for EPA
More than 160 scientists from major universities across Michigan this week urged support for the Environmental Protection Agency, calling the federal agency's role essential to protecting the public...
View ArticleA Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs
A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense – it is, in fact,...
View ArticleOne Test of the strength of a Democracy
One Test of the strength of a Democracy..is the participation of youth in the political process. Its simple. Nations that have an eye on the future put youth – both the seed and the harvest of their...
View ArticleWe Are Not Going Back: Racism, the Right, and the Push Forward
Editor's note: This article was based on a “Black History Talk” given at the Workers Center in Chicago on Feb. 24, 2011.There is a tremendous battle waging in our country. It is related to...
View ArticleWhy "It's About Freedom!" and Why We Must Not Relent
The labor protests spreading throughout the Great Lakes states have energized the left. Not only have hundreds of thousands come together to protect the dignity of working people, but they have...
View ArticleWisconsin Subterfuge Violates American Democratic Values
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his crew of country club conservatives this week brutalized the nation's democratic traditions to secure legislation demanded by big corporations and billionaire...
View ArticleMining and Water Pollution
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I understand that, among mining’s other problems, like providing climate-warming coal and endangering miners’ lives, it is also a serious water...
View ArticleBook Review: Liberation Theology Along the Potomac
Liberation Theology Along the Potomac: Labor's Golden Rule in Early American Catholicismby Edward Toby TerrarSilver Spring, Maryland: CWPublishers (Downloadable pdf copy here) This book is a history...
View ArticleLetter to My Fellow Michiganders
Monday, March 14th, 2011 AFL-CIO Protest Page | Working Families Facebook Event Page | MoveOn Protest Page | Rachel Maddow Explains Rick Snyder's Attack on Middle Class Fellow Michiganders (and...
View ArticleTax the Rich: Democrats Introduce Deficit-cutting Bill
According to recent public opinion polls, more than eight in 10 Americans want the rich to pay a fair share to cut the deficit. With Republicans poised to cut everything from Social Security benefits...
View ArticleWorkers Rights in the Era of Globalization
Editor's note: Excerpted from a speech delivered by Trumka at the Council on Foreign Relations, March 17, 2011. In Washington, the globalization debate – like everything else – is partisan and...
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