The silence that [Fred Mason] encountered represented something far more dangerous than timidity. Rather, the silence was the result of years of defeat that have been rationalized away. The decline of the union movement, largely the result of mega-economic factors (for example, globalization) combined with vicious political assaults (such as the mass firings of the air traffic controllers in 1981 by President Reagan), is as well the result of internal problems that inhibit many leaders and members from understanding the global economic and political batdefield on which we operate. Thus, when Mason suggested a nationwide mobilization, the leaders' collective silence in effect said the following: "If we can even mobilize our members - which many of us think that we cannot - we run the ris...
...Mason, a longtime progressive, African American union activist and leader, started suggesting a di... lay off workers and cut back on public services. In this sense, this contingent was not the equiva...Copyright American Friends Service Committee, Inc. Feb 2009Provided by ProQue...
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Since 2000, all three have cooperated in organizing one of the country's most active immigrants' rights coalitions, the MIRA. "You will always find folks reluctant to get involved, who say, it's not part of our mission, that immigrants are taking our jobs," [Jim Evans] says. "But we all have the same rights and justice cause. [Vicky Cintra] handed out 10,000 flyers with the MIRA's phone number, and the calls flooded in. Thirty-five workers abandoned by their contractor in dilapidated trailers received blankets and food. When two Red Cross shelters evicted Latinos, even putting a man in a wheelchair onto the street, the national news media reported on Cintra's efforts on behalf of the immigrants. "For the next year we were just reacting to emergencies,'' she recalls. The MIRA fought evi...
..., while some brought spouses, cousins, and friends from home. Mexicans and Central Americans joined S... forced the company to get rid of the temp service and hire employees directly. "That meant that Afri...Copyright American Friends Service Committee, Inc. Apr 2008Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights...
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As [Le Thi Cong Nhan] was boarding her flight in Hanoi for Warsaw, the Vietnamese regime stopped her from boarding the flight. Letting people spend small fortunes on airfares and other expenses, and then stopping them at the airport, is a standard tactic of this regime. In March 2007, she was imprisoned and held for two months without charges. In May 2007, she was sentenced to four years' imprisonment plus several years of administrative detention for "spreading propaganda intended to overthrow" Vietnam's Communist regime. In democratic societies, spreading propaganda and overthrowing governments are two of the normal rights of citizens - they are called freedom of speech and free elections. As of September 2007, Le Thi Cong Nhan is still languishing in prison, as are many other freedom...
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Even Brazilian sugarcane, touted as the world's model for conversion from fossil fuels to sustainable "green energy," has its downside. The energy yield appears beyond question. It is claimed that ethanol from sugarcane may produce as much as eight times as much energy as it takes to grow and process. But a recent World Wildlife Fund report for the International Energy Agency raises serious questions about this approach to future energy independence. It turns out that 80% of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions come not from cars, but from deforestation - the loss of embedded carbon dioxide when forests are cut down and burned. A hectare of land may save 13 tons of carbon dioxide if it is used to grow sugarcane, but the same hectare can absorb 20 tons of CO2 if it remains forested. If suga...
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This is an edited version of an essay, "Who Should Have a Hand in Building a New Financial Architecture?" written by Jessica Walker Beaumont, AFSC Economic Justice Program Analyst, Arnie Alpert, AFSC New Hampshire Program Coordinator, and the rest of the AFSC Economic Justice team. The original was posted at www.afsc.org/EconomicJustice/US. President [George W. Bush] invited the leaders of twenty nations with the largest economies (known as the "G20" nations), plus representatives of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Financial Stability Forum, to participate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling for a follow-up session in about 100 days. A historic window of opportunity is opening that depends on pressure from public opinion for a ...
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[Amy Goodman] interviewed [Glenn Greenwald] of Salon, asking him why he was reporting from this party. Greenwald responded, "It's extraordinary that the same Blue Dogs that just gave this extremely corrupt gift to AT&T are now attending a party underwritten by AT&T, the purpose of which is to thank the Blue Dogs for the corrupt legislative gift that they got. So AT&T gives money to Blue Dogs, the Blue Dogs turn around and immunize AT&T from lawbreaking [by illegally wiretapping people in the US at the request of the Bush administration], and then AT&T throws a party at the Democratic convention thanking them.
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