Don't Drink the Tea. Think With the WE.
Jun
2011
8
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) became the second Building Trades union to endorse AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile, joining the Teamsters, who pledged their support in April. These two Internationals join a growing coalition of labor organizations who have conveyed the benefits the extension of...
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Jun
2011
8
18 Michigan Republicans now appear to be the subject of recall efforts, according to Eclectablog. Here’s what we have so far: Pat Somerville (23rd House District) Anthony Forlini (24th House District) Jeff Farrington (30th House District) Andrea LaFontaine (32nd House District) Mark Ouimet (52nd House District) Rick Olson (55th House...
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Jun
2011
7
On February 23rd, as the Wisconsin budget battle between Scott Walker’s GOP and the labor movement/rest of the world was hitting the national stage, I received an email, through the We Party Patriots contact form on our site, that read: Been paying attention to the Wisconsin protests and after hearing Walker’s plan, I feel a ...
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Jun
2011
7
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives debated and voted on the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. During those proceedings, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) offered an anti-Davis-Bacon Amendment which was defeated by a wide margin, 183-234. 52 Republicans sided with labor to defeat this amendment, while Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC) was the lone...
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Jun
2011
7
Back when George W. Bush leapt bomb-first into the Iraqi war, he and his marketing and branding unit (i.e. his Cabinet) issued a set of playing cards to U.S. soldiers so they’d know who their top targets were among Saddam Hussein’s lot. They looked like this: In 2011 it is clear to most people that ...
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Jun
2011
7
Fast-talking feminist vlogger (that’s video blogger, to you), Nineteen Percent, edits direct-to-camera video attacks on cultural phenomena she takes issue with. She is quite witty, highly intelligent and downright righteous (downrighteous?). Her recent indictment of R&B superstar Beyonce has garnered over 300,000 views on YouTube. The...
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Jun
2011
6
A hearing is scheduled at the State House in Massachusetts for June 7th @ 10AM in Room 222 before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight to assess House Bill 3034. The bill would prohibit any public authority from entering into a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) in Massachussetts. PLAs, encouraged on the federal ...
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Jun
2011
6
What chaps my hide the most is that the reason for the cuts is to reduce the U.S. budget deficit. All the while, two-thirds of major American corporations didn’t pay taxes this year after receiving bailout money and reporting record profits as a result. Those who look closely have known for a couple of months ...
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Jun
2011
6
Yesterday, big-time blogstress Digby called out Sarah Palin for defending her flawed account of Paul Revere’s ride and indicated that Palin’s fans had begun editing Wikipedia to more closely resemble the former Alaska’s governor’s version of Paul Revere’s ride. Thankfully, there is a credible system in place that...
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Jun
2011
6
Backwater Angler is a “full-service flyshop just steps from the Gunpowder River,” but they have made the intelligent step of setting up a blog to go along with their commercial enterprise. This blog, it just so happens, provides some gorgeous photographs as well as important insight into fishing this tree-lined Maryland aquasource....
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Jun
2011
6
When you think of the dance music capitols of the United States, several major Metropoli come to mind: New York; Chicago; even Detroit thanks to Carl Craig. But you don’t think of Milwaukee, do you? Don’t lie. Yet, this is precisely the place where Daft Punk, arguably the world’s most renowned DJs/Dance Music Makers, held ...
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Jun
2011
6
As budget battles and union attacks rage across the country, the hymn of overpaid workers is sung by the common chorus of Right-Wing detractors who seek to undermine the American working class and shift the nation’s wealth entirely to the already-rich. In the private sector, these detractors most often site the cost of labor associated ...
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