#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Union Thugs on Facebook Originally posed at Living Blue in West Virginia College costs have shown marked, steady increases over the years, driving student loan debt to nearly the trillion mark. In this poor economy many graduates are unable to obtain a job or earn enough money to pay back the debt. While it is not impossible to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy, it might as well be. We can thank the Bush administration for that. Five years ago Peabody Energy decided to dump all its union miners and retiree benefit obligations into the newly formed Patriot Coal. Seems that everyone but the federal bankruptcy court judge could see this was a brazen move on Peabody's part with only one aim in mind: dumping its financial obligations. But in this case, the bankruptcy was permitted. And that's just not right. 2005 Law Made Student Loans More Lucrative http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9803213 Patriot Bankruptcy Puts Retired Miners in Life and Death Struggle http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-anne-hitt/patriot-bankruptcy-puts-r_b_3422793.html The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/student-loan-debt-chartshttp://www.twitpic.com/cx1sg6
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 4 Major Ways the Rich Pile On and Exploit the Rest of Us For More Money and Profit http://www.alternet.org/economy/4-major-ways-rich-pile-and-exploit-rest-us-more-money-and-profit The new normal is for the wealthy to seize all of the income, move profits offshore and make everyone else pay the bills. In football terms, “piling on” means jumping on a player when he's down. In the economic new normal described by Bernie Sanders, it means taking most of the wealth and all of the income, moving profits and jobs overseas, and making impoverished people pay the bills. 1. Taking ALL the Income Charles Koch said, “I want my fair share — and that's all of it.” He's been getting his wish lately. In the first two years of the recovery, the richest 1% seemingly imposs…http://www.twitpic.com/cv54l9
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] A Deal with the Devil: Growing Power and Wal-Mart Team Up (?)(!) http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/09/a_deal_with_the_devil_growing.html In 1995 David C. Korten wrote “When Corporations Rule the World,” an important book that synthesized the history of corporate rule in the US. Like most books that present thoroughly depressing material on how corporate power has run amok, he ended it with a chapter on how to fight back. His timing was ideal. The mid-1990s was an era when social justice movements were beginning to move away from single-issue campaigns and started to aim their sites at those at the top who controlled the economic pyramid. 1999 became synonymous, at least in activist circles, with Seattle (November 30) and the ant…http://www.twitpic.com/cuefs4
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [SLIDESHOW] ‘Occupy Taksim Park’ enters third day as police's dawn raid triggers outcry http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/occupy-taksim-park-enters-third-day-as-polices-dawn-raid-triggers-outcry.aspx?pageID=238&nID=47870&NewsCatID=341 Police staged an early morning raid on protesters bidding to protect trees from being cut down in a central park. However, the move seems to have backfired, with the protesters unmoved and support growing Demonstrations to prevent the demolition of a park on Istanbul's Taksim Square, which is due to be replaced with a shopping mall, entered their third day with police using tear gas at the break of dawn. However, the attack seems to have backfired, triggering more participation in the demonstrations during the day, which continued peacefully and festively. A group of young dem…http://www.twitpic.com/cuctvq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Trumka: Austerity’s Valid as ‘Flat Earth’ Theory http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/Trumka-Austerity-s-Valid-as-Flat-Earth-Theory In Paris on Tuesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka warned the leaders and policymakers of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that the financial austerity measures, like those taken by European nations, destroy jobs, increase inequality and likely feed the public’s mistrust of government. Taking part in the OECD forum “Austerity Versus Growth,” Trumka—a member of the OECD’s Trade Union Advisory Committee—slammed the idea that austerity measures will move nations out the economic doldrums. “Is austerity vs. growth a false dilemma? This is a foolish question in the same way that it is …”http://www.twitpic.com/cu625y
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Uganda: Police Still Occupy Red Pepper, Monitor Offices http://allafrica.com/stories/201305221136.html The premises of the The Red pepper publications and The Monitor newspaper, Uganda are still being occupied by police for the third day after a raid by officers on Monday. The dailies offices were taken raided after the papers last week published a press release sent to them from General David Sejusa's lawyers purporting that there was a plot on the lives of individuals opposed to President Museveni's move to have his son succeed him. The Red Pepper has however been published today despite the fact their offices are still occupied by the police. “This copy that we have given the name 'Freedom issue' is a remin…http://www.twitpic.com/ctwwdx
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Vets Deserve Better than Walmart’s .81 an Hour http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/Vets-Deserve-Better-than-Walmart-s-8.81-an-Hour Last week Walmart said it would speed up its plan to hire returning military veterans that it announced in January. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Walmart’s latest move “is more about public relations than honoring our heroes.” “We owe it to our returning veterans to make sure they are treated as the heroes they are, rather than as symbols used to “greenwash” Walmart’s eroding brand. After facing enemies abroad, is an .81 an hour part-time job the best we can offer returning veterans?”http://www.twitpic.com/cot8i1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty My Turn: Move forward in child poverty fight http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013305020006&gcheck=1 The Vermont Child Poverty Council was established by the Legislature in 2007 and charged with developing a plan to cut child poverty in half in 10 years. The Legislature recognized that the plan had to be long term. A problem as persistent as poverty cannot be solved overnight. Voices for Vermont’s Children has served on the council from the start, working with council members to collect information about the circumstances of Vermont’s poor and low-income children and their families and to develop poverty-reduction recommendations that were published in our January 2009 report. RELATED AUDIO: http://www.vpr.net/episode/54121/ranking-well-being-vermonts-children/http://www.twitpic.com/cnph1f
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Vermont Yankee asked to pay 0,000 in 2014 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013304290022&gcheck=1 Every year, it seems, the Vermont Legislature looks for ways to tax, punish or shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Every year, Vermont Yankee fights them on it, sometimes in court. This legislative session has been remarkably free of talk about the Vernon plant. It’s as if the two warring parties have retreated to neutral corners to lick their wounds, amass their arsenal and plot their next move. The one exception this year is a little item in the 2014 budget bill. The state wants Vermont Yankee to pay 0,000 over the next four years to help the American Red Cross prepare an evacuation plan that includes…http://www.twitpic.com/cn0d26
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Interview with Ghazi Beji: atheism as a crime! http://atunisiangirl.blogspot.com/2013/04/interview-avec-ghazi-beji-latheisme.html TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR In Tunisia, two years after the popular uprising that led to the departure of the dictator ZABA, trials opinion multiply … Most of these cases are brought under the broad heading of damage to religious or moral damage to the sacred. One example is the trial of Al Ghazi Beji and Jabeur Majeri. Indeed, ” Monday, June 25, 2012, the Court of Appeal upheld the judgment Monastir the trial court that sentenced Mehdia Al Jabeur Mejri young surfer, to imprisonment for seven years and a half. The same judgment was given by default against Ghazi Beji that, he was forced to leave the country seeking political asylum abroad, following the indictment of two young surfers to have caused serious material damage by the publication of photographs and writings on their Facebook pages. “* I had the opportunity to interview Ghazi Beji via Facebook and here is the exchange that took place between us: 1) if you start by introducing yourself to International Opinion readers? Ghazi Beji, 28, holds a bachelor's degree in food and biotechnology. I am originally from the Tunisian city of Mahdia. I am the author of the book The Illusion of Islam. 2) With your friend Jabeur Mejri you end sentenced in March 2012 to 7 ½ years in prison, sentence upheld in June following the Court of Appeal reached Monastir to religious morality, defamation, and disturbing the public order. Can you return to this mishap? After the revolution, I wrote a book called the illusion of Islam and my friend Jabeur Mejri wrote a book in English called Dark Land, or have criticized the fascist religious Tunisia and the exclusion of others in the name of Islam. We were sentenced to 7 years and a half in prison and a fine of 1,200 dinars. Jabeur was arrested on 5 March 2012. As for me, I managed to run away and leave my country on 8 March 2012. I had an amazing career: Libya, Algeria – Turkey then I went to Turkey to Greece to swim. Thereafter, I had from Macedonia and Serbia and Romania and finallyI had the subsidiary protection. Unfortunately, I have been targeted and attacked by Islamic extremists while I continued to move me from one country to another: Hungary-Austria-Switzerland-France. 3) How do you see this verdict and the trial in general? This is an attack on my freedom of expression because the religious do not believe in democracy. Their goal in life is to destroy the lives of human beings. They can not digest the fact that someone is happy, they want everyone to livein the shit (lol) 4) You've managed to run away and leave Tunisia. However, we heard that you had to face many difficulties and problems. Can you talk about that? I met several constraints in Libya with jihadi groups in Algeria I spent 15 days in fear of the dictator regime in Greece I had to resist against the extreme right who was chasing strangers in the streets of Athens and racist hyper police, with its rotten laws. In Macedonia, I was in prison and I have had problems with thieves police. In Serbia, I have not had much luck and I was brutally tortured in prisons in the north you south. In Romania, I discovered that racism n has not been eradicated and I found myself in a refugee camp with the terrorists who attacked me. Now I'm moving in different countries of the Western Europe but still undocumented. 5) What is your current situation? Have you managed to rebuild your life? I managed to partially adjust my status but the biggest remains. 6) Your friend Jabeur Majeri languishing in a cell in Tunisia. Can you tell us about the situation and the conditions of his detention? Jabeur is imprisoned in the Mahdia. His situation is very delicate. Indeed, he is tortured by prison guards and other prisoners who accuse him of being an unbeliever. The conditions of his detention are terrible: he caught scabies and can no longer walk. In addition, he is forced to do the prayers in the prison infirmary. 7) Have you found support of Tunisian civil society? How civil society could it help you and how it could act to save Jabeur? I found the support of the Tunisian civil society in France. However, I was ignored by the Tunisian League of Human Rights. Tunisians-the-Tunisian people condemned me. I was vilified and I got several smear campaigns and threats on social networks. 
How do you see the situation in Tunisia now? Do you believe that the freedoms and human rights are in danger right now? I think this phase is an essential and crucial phase in the history of our country. Tunisians must pass through this phase to understand the meaning of democracy, citizenship, the separation between the state and I religion.Mais remain convinced that we will get out either through a civil war or another. 9) have announced the publication of a book. Can you talk about that? I have not yet published my new book, but it will be soon. I will tell all my journey from Tunisia to France I arrived, with a critical eye towards Europe and what they call human Rights which are lies and illusions. 10) I'll leave the last word. In the end I want to say to the people of Tunisia that the fault is not that of Ennahda. I think the majority of Tunisians are hard religious who are struggling to accept difference and digest democracy. The majority is made up of people who are against freedom of expression, and the difference against the gender. I also want to remind the people who shouted loudly thirst for freedom and dignity is the same who voted for the Islamists and fired from my job three times when I was still in Tunisia and my censored before, but I have no hatred towards my countrymen because they will always be my people, my people … * Excerpt from the press kit of the support committee Ghazi Beji and Jabeur Al Majeri. At a conference organized around the theme “Tunisia: the dangers threatening the freedom of expression after the revolution,” the Tunisian section of Amnesty announced its full support to Al Jabeur Majeri and Ghazi Beji. A campaign to collect signatures has already been launched and you can follow the latest developments on Twitter via the hashtag # FreeJabeur.http://www.twitpic.com/cl2ico