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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Viewpoint: The Decline of Unions Is Your Problem Too http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/29/viewpoint-why-the-decline-of-unions-is-your-problem-too/ Last week came news that the share of America’s workforce that’s unionized hit a 97-year low. A mere 11.3% of workers now belong to a union, and a great chunk of those are in the shrinking public sector. In the private sector, unionization fell to an abysmal 6.6%, down from a peak of 35% during the 1950s. Most Americans yawned at this news. On one level that’s understandable. After all, most Americans aren’t in a union. It’s a vicious cycle: as unions decline, fewer people see their fates as bound up with unions, which just accelerates the decline. But on another level, America’s non-reaction is striking. We rem…http://www.twitpic.com/bzejik

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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Talking to Reporters Is Not A Crime: new leak investigation threatens press freedom in US http://boingboing.net/2013/01/28/talking-to-reporters-is-not-a.html At the The Freedom of the Press Foundation blog, Trevor Timm digs deeper into disturbing news (covered here in Saturday’s Washington Post) of an FBI investigation of a large number of government officials suspected of leaking classified information to the press, which “engulfs an unknown group of reporters,” along the way. Trevor writes, “The investigation includes data-mining officials’ personal and professional communications to find any contact with journalists. Just to be clear: It seems officials are being targeted for just talking to the press.”http://www.twitpic.com/bz5pgt

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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Occupy the Movie http://www.independent.com/news/2013/jan/25/occupy-movie/ Director Corey Ogilve There’s been no shortage of journalism related to 2011’s Occupy Wall Street movement, with films, articles, television specials, and, of course, news reports, all working to various degrees to try and explain the larger meaning of the people powered mini-revolt of little more than a year ago. However, in the feature-length documentary Occupy the Movie, Canadian filmmaker Corey Ogilvie manages to succeed where so many before him have failed. By focusing on both the actual underpinnings of the original protest and documenting the subsequent months through the vantage point and voices of many of the actual organizers, Ogilvie is…http://www.twitpic.com/byvwhp

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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Ayn Rand Is for Children http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-children Objectivism is more young adult fantasy than political philosophy. With this week’s news that Glenn Beck and others are preparing to build libertarian communes and “Going Galt,” I figure now is the time to finally refine my theory about those who claim to be Ayn Rand acolytes or who brag that their favorite book is “Fountainhead Shrugged” (they are the same book written twice in order to double Rand’s profit, so for brevity, let’s just use one name). Since I first met Objectivists (read: libertarians) in college, my Unified Theory of Rand Groupies posited that they all probably fit into at least one of three groups: those who 1) never gre…http://www.twitpic.com/bxz4zh

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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot [VIDEO] LinkAsia News: January 11, 2013 http://www.linktv.org/linkasia/linkasia2013011111/linkasia-news-january-11-2013http://www.twitpic.com/bxpwjz

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#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Occupy campers to leave ahead of eviction order http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/occupy-campers-to-leave-ahead-of-eviction-order-1-2747457 PROTESTORS camping in Princes Street Gardens have hinted they may be about to leave the city centre landmark as the council prepared to clear them by force. Members of Occupy Edinburgh – who say they are fighting corporate greed – have been sleeping in pitched tents in the Gardens since last Saturday. Council bosses have already ordered the group to leave and it is understood an eviction could be under way by the end of next week. But speaking to the Evening News after a sixth night spent in freezing temperatures, one camper said the group could disband voluntarily “in the next few days”, although he insisted the Oc…http://www.twitpic.com/bwyyuy

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#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Inequality for All: Sundance Review http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/inequality-all-sundance-review-413936 Policy wonk Robert Reich cuts through fiscal-cliff jargon to explain the true economic crisis facing the U.S. in this illustrated lecture. It’s hardly news that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but Inequality for All, the latest entry in the illustrated-lecture school of documentary filmmaking, gets beyond the duh factor, deploying urgent statistics in an even-tempered lesson. Its subject, the abyss-wide, 99/1 income disparity in the United States, has been at the center of a good deal of recent political discourse and name-calling. Filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth acknowledges the anger fueling the Occupy and Tea Party move…http://www.twitpic.com/bwycid

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IN OTHER NEWS i see the Grammys & those responsible for the DMCA & Aaron Swartz' death jacking #OWS' swaghttp://www.twitpic.com/bw9ln1

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#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Punishment Before Trial: More Than 1,000 Days and Counting for Bradley Manning http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/15-5 I read the news about Colonel Denise Lind's ruling in the case against Bradley Manning with great interest. She ruled that Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of releasing thousands of military and diplomatic emails and cables to Wikileaks was indeed subjected to excessively harsh treatment whilst in military detention and this must surely be seen as a small victory for the Manning defense team. The punishment of Bradley Manning goes directly against the Uniform Code of Military Justice's own laws, namely Section 813 article 13, which basically states, “No punishment before trial.” This la…http://www.twitpic.com/bvk01s

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