#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Homeland Security kept tabs on Occupy Wall Street protesters: Report http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/03/296389/dhs-kept-tabs-on-occupy-protesters/ New documents show that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spied on peaceful Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters during the height of the anti-capitalist movement in the country. The documents released by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on Tuesday revealed that the DHS routinely spied on peaceful First Amendment activities and required daily briefing on the extent of media attention being given to OWS activities. The PCJF obtained the 252 pages of documents under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing with the DHS, the sprawling Federal agency ostensibly created to co…http://www.twitpic.com/cgskxy
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty I <3 Willie!http://www.twitpic.com/cgsmsm
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] 2013 Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Fifth Lowest on Record http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-seaicemax-2013.html Last September, at the end of the northern hemisphere summer, the Arctic Ocean’s icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the average summertime extent from 1979 to 2000. During the cold and dark of Arctic winter, sea ice refreezes and achieves its maximum extent, usually in late February or early March. According to a NASA analysis, this year the annual maximum extent was reached on Feb. 28 and it was the fifth lowest sea ice winter extent in the past 35 years. The new maximum —5.82 million square miles (15.09 millio…http://www.twitpic.com/cgsqb7
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Mo. Paycheck Deception Aims to Silence Workers http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/Mo.-Paycheck-Deception-Aims-to-Silence-Workers Corporate-backed and extremist Missouri lawmakers are continuing their attacks on workers with hearings on a paycheck deception bill. In front of a Senate committee this morning, according to AFSCME Council 72, which is tweeting the hearing, witnesses told lawmakers the bill is part of a nationally driven agenda to “silence workers.” Related: http://www.seiuhcilin.org/2013/03/14/missouri-members-converge-on-jeff-city-to-fight-paycheck-deception-right-to-work-for-less-bills/http://www.twitpic.com/cgsgy9
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The Growing Sentiment on the Hill For Ending 'Too Big To Fail' http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-growing-sentiment-on-the-hill-for-ending-too-big-to-fail-20130403 First, a quick housekeeping note: About a month ago, I got a call out of the blue from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who's one of my favorite people and something of a political hero of mine. Bernie helped me many years ago, back when he was still a congressman, by letting me tag along for weeks for a story about how the House works that ultimately was called “Four Amendments and a Funeral” – an experience that taught me an enormous amount about how our government operates, and also in a weird way left me less cynical, as it showed there were still plenty of avenues where a determined individual could …http://www.twitpic.com/cgsf4b
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Like Nixon to China, It Takes a Democrat to Put the First Knife in #SocialSecurity — http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/like-nixon-to-china-it-takes-a-democrat-to-put-the-first-knife-in-social-security.html First, make no mistake, both parties want to gut or kneecap Social Security. On the right (which is to say, among the rulers of the Republican party, not the voters) the Trust Fund is a big fat fruit, ripe for plucking and eating — .7 trillion and counting. That’s a lot of money to divert into the stock market, as Bush II tried to do in 2005. He was beaten back, partly because he was a Republican (keep that part in mind); but he gave it the college try. On the “left” (as the Neoliberal rulers of the Dems like to brand themselves), the push is no less strong, but with slightly different changes on offer. The Wall Street billionaires would love to steal the Trust Fund outright, but you can’t sell that to Democratic voters, so when the “left” is in power, they don’t try to kill it so much as kneecap it, hobble it, cut its little hamstrings to keep it from walking. The first Neoliberal president — the man who led the corporatization of the Democratic party — was Bill Clinton. He was also the first Democrat to rule after 12 years of Republican “revolution” that started in 1980, the year when everything changed. (Yes, you could call Carter a proto-neoliberal and be right, but that’s a tweak for this discussion.) Clinton started the push to “fix” Social Security from the “left. #Occupy Collapse this posthttp://www.twitpic.com/cgrons
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Same-Sex Marriage Makes David Brooks Crazy http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/same-sex-marriage-makes-david-brooks-crazy-20130402 This morning's David Brooks column on same-sex marriage was one of the weirdest, most mean-spirited things I've ever seen in The New York Times. Entitled “Freedom Loses One,” the article is a sarcastic broadside against . . . well, against something, though it's not clear exactly which of the many post-Sixties permissive-society hobgoblins Brooks hates is the real target here. Ostensibly, the column purports to make a single ironic point, which is that by petitioning the Supreme Court for the right to marry, gays and lesbians were not expanding their freedoms – and thus continuing, as Brooks implies, a long and perhaps-re…http://www.twitpic.com/cgjk7r
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Juicy Couture’s Health Care Dodge http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/Juicy-Couture-s-Health-Care-Dodge Juicy Couture, that hip, L.A.-centric, high-end clothing and apparel chain, is engaging in what can only be described as tragically unhip corporate behavior. It is, workers say, replacing its full-time workforce with part-timers in order to duck its obligations to provide paid leave and health care for the workers. According to the women’s fashion, lifestyle and news blog Jezebel, the workers who were fired or saw their hours slashed say the peddler of 0 jeans and reviver of the velour track suit is deliberately back-dooring the Affordable Care Act, which requires employers with 50 or more employees who work 30 or more hours a w…http://www.twitpic.com/cgjl19
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Low-wage nation: Seven of 10 most common jobs pay less than ,000 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/02/1198728/-Low-wage-nation-Seven-of-10-most-common-jobs-pay-less-than-30-000 Finding a job in an economy where there are 3.3 job-seekers for every job is hard enough. Finding a good job? That's even harder, since 58 percent of the jobs created since the economic recovery began have been low-wage jobs, and seven out of the 10 most common jobs pay less than ,000 a year in most cases: Food prep workers are the third most-common job in the U.S., but have the lowest pay, at a mere ,720 a year for 2012. Cashiers and waiters are also popular professions, but the average pay at these jobs tallies up to less than ,000 annually. There are 4.3 million retail sales workers out…http://www.twitpic.com/cgjrfo
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Thanks to the thousands of you who participated in LabourStart's third annual survey of trade union use of the net. http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f3995b46c18cb039818f29a32&id=3a5bcefbcf&e=877c808edc Over 3,000 of you participated this year and as promised, we're sharing the results with you and your unions. Here are some highlights of what we learned: More and more of you use tablets and smartphones – though your unions haven't tended to keep up, with very few of them creating applications specifically designed for small screens. Very large numbers of you are using social networks other than Facebook – most notably Google+ and LinkedIn. But your unions, which have been pretty good about using Facebook and Twitter, have largely ignored those …http://www.twitpic.com/cgjvah