#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Sign the Petition to Save the Postal Service http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2013/05/petition-postal-service.html On April 24, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) launched a “We the People” petition on the White House website. The congressman’s goal is to get President Obama to act to save the Postal Service. We can save American jobs by preserving delivery standards and ending the unfair mandate to aggressively pre-fund future retiree health benefits. Sign the petition. Recently, the White House quadrupled the number of signatures needed to trigger a response—to 100,000—and it imposed shorter time limits for collection of signatures. The deadline for this petition is THIS Friday, May 24, and thanks to letter carrier activists, more than 24…http://www.twitpic.com/cs1b73
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided http://grist.org/news/occupy-the-farm-movement-rises-again-hours-after-being-raided/ A guerrilla veggie-growing occupation of university-owned land in Albany, Calif., was busted by cops early Monday and thousands of zucchini, kale, squash, and other newly planted seedlings were plowed over. But the occupiers proved more resilient than a sprawling mint plant, returning Monday to replant the desecrated farm. More than 100 activists had gathered at Gill Tract, near Berkeley, on Friday and over the weekend, with some staying on site until the Monday morning raid. They pulled weeds, tilled soil, and planted seedlings. Some pitched tents. RELATED VIDEO: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9100060http://www.twitpic.com/cqtgts
The British are so jolly with their “polite” euphemisms – as long as they can use them to snicker about sex rather than giant crime.#nwo #ows http://twitpic.com/cqs3quhttp://www.twitpic.com/cqsa8u
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Returning to the Haunted Ground of the Warsaw Ghetto http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/never-forget-to-lie/returning-to-the-haunted-ground-of-the-warsaw-ghetto/ Before World War II, Poland's capital was home to the country's largest Jewish community. More than 350,000 Jews lived in the city. No more than 20,000 of them survived the Holocaust. In Never Forget to Lie, airing tomorrow on FRONTLINE, filmmaker Marian Marzynski journeys back to Warsaw, Poland to explore the story of his childhood and those of other Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust.http://www.twitpic.com/cqlrag
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Returning to the Haunted Ground of the Warsaw Ghetto http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/never-forget-to-lie/returning-to-the-haunted-ground-of-the-warsaw-ghetto/ Before World War II, Poland's capital was home to the country's largest Jewish community. More than 350,000 Jews lived in the city. No more than 20,000 of them survived the Holocaust. In Never Forget to Lie, airing on FRONTLINE, filmmaker Marian Marzynski journeys back to Warsaw, Poland to explore the story of his childhood and those of other Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust.http://www.twitpic.com/cqlrgl
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Join Steven Pitts Wednesday to Discuss How We Build a Stronger Labor Movement for People of Color http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Join-Steven-Pitts-Wednesday-to-Discuss-How-We-Build-a-Stronger-Labor-Movement-for-People-of-Color Join us Wednesday at 1 p.m. EDT for this week’s live online discussion with with Dr. Steven Pitts, labor policy specialist at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He is hosting our second online conversation on how we build a better future for working people and a bigger and stronger movement. Here’s the question he’s posing, and you can go to our discussion page now to give us your thoughts—be sure to click back on Wednesday to follow the real-time dialogue with Pitts. “Union density is higher among black workers than it is for any other racial or ethnic group of workers…”..http://www.twitpic.com/cqevkz
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Want to start the next Occupy revolution? There's an app for that http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/want-to-start-next-occupy-revolution-theres-app Veteran filmmaker and Occupy activist Velcrow Ripper has launched a new app designed to inspire a new breed of Occupy protests. The app is part of the global release of Mr. Ripper's newest documentary Occupy Love, a film that traces the origins of the Occupy Movement and then explores the thematic relationships between the protests against Wall Street with other global movements such as the Arab Spring and the European Summer. “The real aim of the Occupy protests,” says Mr. Ripper, “goes deeper than politics. I believe that what we were showing out there, in a very new way, was the power of commun…http://www.twitpic.com/cqf93q
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Community activists rekindle Occupy the Farm in Gill Tract at Albany http://www.dailycal.org/2013/05/12/community-activists-occupy-and-plant-new-urban-farm-in-the-gill-tract/ More than 100 community activists occupied and farmed a portion of university-owned research land in Albany this weekend in the latest iteration of the Occupy the Farm movement. The group assembled to oppose recent proposals to develop the southern portion of an Albany plot of land known as the Gill Tract, owned by the Regents of the University of California. The proposals suggest developing the lot into a senior housing complex and a national chain grocery store, Sprouts Farmers Market. Occupy the Farm activists said they would rather see the land developed into a urban farm that could be used t…http://www.twitpic.com/cqeweb
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Police chief defends Occupy Central activist's arrest http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1233801/top-cop-defends-delayed-arrest-occupy-central-volunteer Commissioner dismisses claims that charge is linked to campaigner's Occupy Central role Police made more than 30 “low-profile” attempts over more than a year to arrest an Occupy Central volunteer for her role in a demonstration two years ago, the police chief said yesterday. Andy Tsang Wai-hung said officers did not know until she was arrested on Wednesday that Melody Chan Yuk-fung had joined the movement to occupy roads in the city centre in a pro-democracy protest planned for next year. “The speculation that [this arrest] is related to Occupy Central is purely speculation. There is no basis in it at all,” Tsanghttp://www.twitpic.com/cpgwn1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/03/giants-green-world-profit-planets-destruction A new movement has erupted demanding divestment from fossil fuel polluters – and Big Green is in their sights The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding protests, debates and sit-ins to pressure their to rid their endowments of oil, gas and coal holdings. And under the “Fossil Free UK” banner, the movement is now crossing the Atlantic, with a major push planned by People & Planet for this summer…
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/03/giants-green-world-profit-planets-destruction A new movement has erupted demanding divestment from fossil fuel polluters – and Big Green is in their sights The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding protests, debates and sit-ins to pressure their to rid their endowments of oil, gas and coal holdings. And under the “Fossil Free UK” banner, the movement is now crossing the Atlantic, with a major push planned by People & Planet for this summer…http://www.twitpic.com/cp91y6