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Wal-Mart Workers Strike, Target Workers Threaten to Join Black Friday Walkout
By Josh Eidelson
Salon.com via Portside.org
Nov 12, 2013 - Four days after the end of a Southern California strike, Seattle-area Wal-Mart workers plan to mount their own walkout this morning. The one-day strike is the latest in the lead-up to a larger day of strikes and protests planned for Black Friday, the high-profile post-Thanksgiving shopping day at the end of this month.
"I don't know if I'll see it in my lifetime," Washington Wal-Mart employee Mary Watkines told Salon in a pre-strike interview, but "I want all of the associates, including myself, to be able to walk into our workplace, you know, this place that they call our family ... and not be physically ill, not just feel like you want to throw up or pass out or even just turn around and walk out" over "intimidation and humiliation." Watkins added, "I want people to be able to live better, you know, like the commercial says ... Nobody lives better except for the Waltons now."
Today's strike is the latest by the non-union worker group OUR Walmart, which is closely tied to the United Food & Commercial Workers union. As I've reported, OUR Walmart has promised major mobilization for this year's "Black Friday" strike; organizers say last year's drew 400-some strikers. Sub-contracted Twin Cities janitorial workers who clean stores for Target and other corporations plan to announce today that they're prepared to strike that day as well.
"I need to be able to take care of my family," Anthony Goytia told reporters on a conference call during last week's SoCal strike. "And that's why yesterday and today, I'm risking everything - my livelihood, my ability to provide for my family, my ability to pay rent on time, put food on the table - everything, by striking against a company that aggressively and illegally disciplines and fires workers who speak out for better jobs." Last week's Los Angeles-area strike culminated in a downtown demonstration at which 54 activists were arrested in what the campaign called the largest act of civil disobedience in Wal-Mart's 51-year history. Organizers said a count of the total number of workers who went on strike was not yet available. The same day as the civil disobedience, the OUR Walmart campaign unveiled a new website on which Wal-Mart workers can share stories and request protests anonymously or by name, and a petition to the president.
Authored by Chicago employee Charmaine Givens-Thomas, the petition urges that Obama "make good on your promise to stand up for working people by meeting with the courageous workers who are risking termination or other disciplinary action by joining together as Organization United for Respect at Walmart." ...(Click title for more)
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 Through gerrymandering, voter suppression and legislative tricks, the GOP has managed to hold on to power while more and more Americans reject their candidates and their ideas
By Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone
Nov 11, 2013 - As the nation recovers from the Republican shutdown of government, the question Americans should be asking is not "Why did the GOP do that to us?" but "Why were they even relevant in the first place?" So dramatically have the demographic and electoral tides in this country turned against the Republican Party that, in a representative democracy worthy of the designation, the Grand Old Party should be watching from the sidelines and licking its wounds. Not only did Barack Obama win a second term in an electoral landslide in 2012, but he is also just the fourth president in a century to have won two elections with more than 50 percent of the popular vote. What's more, the party controls 55 seats in the Senate, and Democratic candidates for the House received well over a million more votes than their Republican counterparts in the election last year. And yet, John Boehner still wields the gavel in the House and Republican resistance remains a defining force in the Senate, frustrating Obama's ambitious agenda.
The GOP's real agenda: How Republicans' politics are harsher than ever
How is this possible? National Republicans have waged an unrelenting campaign to exploit every weakness and anachronism in our electoral system. Through a combination of hyperpartisan redistricting of the House, unprecedented obstructionism in the Senate and racist voter suppression in the states, today's GOP has locked in political power that it could never have secured on a level playing field.
Despite the fact that Republican Congressional candidates received nearly 1.4 million fewer votes than Democratic candidates last November, the Republicans lost only eight seats from their historic 2010 romp, allowing them to preserve a fat 33-seat edge in the House. Unscrupulous Republican gerrymandering following the 2010 census made the difference, according to a statistical analysis conducted by the Princeton Election Consortium. Under historically typical redistricting, House Republicans would now likely be clinging to a reedy five-seat majority. "There's the normal tug of war of American politics," says Sam Wang, founder of the consortium. "Trying to protect one congressman here, or unseat another one there." The Princeton model was built, he says, to detect "whether something got pulled off-kilter on top of that."
Did it ever. In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates took 51 percent of the vote across the state's 18 districts, but only five of the seats. In Wang's model, the odds against Democrats emerging at an eight-seat disadvantage are 1,000-to-1. And Pennsylvania was not alone. According to the Election Consortium analysis, gerrymandering helped Republicans secure 13 seats in just six states - including Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina - that, under normal rules of engagement, Democrats would have won.
This tilting of the electoral playing field was the result of a sophisticated campaign coordinated at the highest levels of Republican politics through a group called the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) - a Super-PAC-like entity chaired by Bush-era RNC chairman Ed Gillespie and backed by Karl Rove. Shortly after President Obama's first election, the RSLC launched the Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP) with an explicit strategy to "keep or win Republican control of state legislatures with the largest impact on congressional redistricting." The logic was simple. Every decade following the census, the task of redrawing federal congressional-district boundaries falls (with some exceptions) to the state legislatures. If Republicans could seize control of statehouses - and, where necessary, have GOP governors in place to rubber-stamp their redistricting maps - the party could lock in new districts that would favor Republican candidates for a decade. As Rove wrote in a Wall Street Journal column in early 2010: "He who controls redistricting can control Congress."
In short order, the RSLC raised more than $30 million to fund Rove's vision while its hapless counterpart, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, raised barely one-third of that amount. "The Obama people simply didn't understand what was happening to them in 2010," says a prominent Democrat. "They just sat it out, and Republicans ran up the score."
The RSLC was particularly focused on states that stood to gain or lose seats. Ohio, for example, would lose two to states with faster population growth. Instead of tweaking the boundaries of existing districts, mapmakers would be empowered in these states to draw new boundaries more or less from scratch - providing "maximum opportunity for mischief," in the words of RSLC president and former REDMAP executive director Chris Jankowski. "You certainly don't want your opponent drawing those lines." On election night in 2010, propelled by Tea Party anger and the RSLC's millions, the GOP seized full-party control of 21 state governments - up from nine the previous year and enough to put the party in charge of redistricting 173 House seats. "Democrats," bragged Jankowski, "will not soon recover from what happened to them on a state level last night."
In past elections, a gentleman's agreement prevailed among sitting politicians of both parties that redistricting would keep them safe. But in 2010, Gillespie told reporters, the Republican strategy would be "to maximize gains." Incumbent seats would be made somewhat less safe in service of spreading the GOP's advantage more broadly. "You'd go from these [incumbent] seats that would carve at 60 percent to seats that get carved at 54 percent," he said.
RSLC's impact was particularly clear in North Carolina. Leading up to the 2010 election, RSLC steered $1.2 million into the state to fund withering attack ads. Democratic incumbents from poor, rural districts simply didn't have the resources to defend themselves against the onslaught of outside spending - and national Democrats didn't call in the cavalry. As a result, Republicans seized control of the North Carolina state assembly for the first time since Reconstruction and began plotting to take control of the state's 13-seat congressional delegation, which still swung Democrat, seven seats to six.
The GOP's War on Voting
In a letter to state legislators, Jankowski wrote, "We have taken the initiative to retain a team of seasoned redistricting experts that we will make available to you at no cost to your caucus for assistance." The RSLC brought on GOP operative Tom Hofeller, who has been in the Republican redistricting game since the 1970s....(Click title for more)
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By Associated Press
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SEATTLE, Nov 13, 2013 - Voters in left-leaning Seattle, where police recently handed out snacks at a large marijuana festival and politicians often try to out-liberal each other, are close to electing a Socialist candidate to the City Council.
Following the latest ballot count Tuesday night, Kshama Sawant had a 41-vote lead over 16-year incumbent Richard Conlin.
Given Washington state's mail-in voting system, a winner won't be named for days or even weeks after the Nov. 4 election.
Still, the strong showing by Sawant, a college economics professor and prominent figure in Seattle's Occupy Wall Street movement, has surprised many people.
Scott Cline, the city's archivist, said research showed no Socialist candidate had won a citywide office in the past 100 years.
"This is new territory. There really isn't any precedent," said Stuart Elway, a longtime political pollster. "You think Seattle has a pretty liberal electorate, but you haven't seen someone who calls themselves a socialist win."
Sawant, 41, drew attention as part of local Occupy Wall Street protests that included taking over a downtown park and a junior college campus in late 2011. She then ran for legislative office in 2012, challenging the powerful speaker of the state House, a Democrat. She was easily defeated.
This year, she ran against Conlin, pushing a platform that appeared to resonate with the city. She backed efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15; called for rent control in the city where rental prices keep climbing; and supports a tax on millionaires to help fund a public transit system and other services.
"I think we have shown the strongest skeptics that the Socialist label is not a bad one for a grassroots campaign to succeed," said Sawant, who is on leave from her job as an professor at Seattle Central Community College.
During her campaign, she condemned economic inequality, contending that some people aren't benefiting from the city's declining jobless rate, ongoing recovery from the recession, and downtown building boom.
"This is one of wealthiest cities in the wealthiest country in the world," she said. "For people to struggle for basic needs is absurd."
City Council races are technically non-partisan in Seattle. Sawant, however, made sure people knew she was running as a Socialist, a label that would ensure defeat in many areas of the country....(Click title for more)
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'We shall continue the conversation of climate change and invite others to advocate for United Nations to resolve the deadlock on climate talks.'
By Margaret Rose Dominado
Black commentator.com
It was a moment of relief when finally, I was able to get in touch with family and friends after sleepless nights and anxious thoughts about the extent of damage and devastation in the islands of Central Philippines by typhoon Haiyan aka Yolanda.
My son in Manila sent a message on the day of the storm: "It was pitch dark at five o-clock in the afternoon!" It was only after two days that I heard from him again. A relative from Panay Island shared her experience, "I thought it was the end of the world. My family and I hugged each other as we huddled ourselves in one corner of the evacuation center. The wind was howling and it was so eerie. The walls were shaking with the constant banging of the winds. The roof sounded like it was crashing down on us. I thought we would die. It was frightening. For five long hours, we were at the edge of death."
As folks emerged from shelters the day after, they were in a state of shock from having seen dead bodies lying in the streets and the familiar structures flattened to the ground. "It seems like I am in a strange empty land. I hardly recognize my own town," remarked one of the evacuees.
In certain areas of Leyte and Samar, there is silence. No one has heard from them yet. They could not be reached and neither could they call for help. With communication lines severed, roads destroyed and bridges broken, it is humanly impossible to reach the isolated areas.
Stateside, it was nerve wracking for those who left their families in the Philippines to work in United States as they heard nothing from their loved ones for many nights. A friend called me and cried, "We cannot help but shed our tears as we watched the media coverage of typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) ravaging the islands we so dearly loved and we are so far away and we cannot do anything for our poor people as they face the storm! I can only cry to God to let the storm pass very quickly!"
Currently, Filipino Americans across the United States are organizing their efforts to provide disaster relief through the NAFCON (National Alliance for Filipino Concerns). As Filipinos, we have weathered many storms in our lives. We knew by heart that the first three days post-typhoon are very critical and that it would take more than just disaster relief to rebuild our communities. Many Filipinos not only lost their loved ones; they also lost their livelihood and the hardest hit are the farmers and the fisher folks.
Yes, the Filipinos urgently need material donations for survival as they have been grappling with the destruction left by typhoon Yolanda. We are grateful for the kindness of others across the world. We are a people who do not forget a kind word or deed especially from strangers and those we least expected. As much as we deeply appreciate this show of generosity, we are also pleading to the people of the world to heed the warnings against man-made climate change. As the earth becomes warmer, so will the sea.
It was not too long ago when Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy left portions of the USA devastated by their ferocity. Katrina was attributed to elevated water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Although global warming does not directly cause a hurricane, the storm derives its energy from the warm sea resulting in stronger intensity and driving the winds to push the surface of the sea and piling up the water higher than the average sea level into a storm surge. ...(Click title for more)
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Collapse of Europe's New Housing
Market Hurt Appliance Maker
By Andrew Bibby
Co-operative News
Nov 14, 2013 - A last-ditch attempt to save a major member of Mondragón family of co-operatives failed this week, as white goods manufacturer Fagor Electrodomésticos went into receivership on Wednesday.
The collapse of the firm, which had built up debts of 850m Euros, is a significant set-back for Mondragón, one of Europe's most important co-operative ventures. Other co-operative businesses within the Mondragón group are not directly affected, however. Mondragón, established in the 1950s by a local priest in the Basque town of the same name, has grown in the last 60 years into a federation of more than a hundred semi-autonomous co-operative businesses who together employ 80,000 people and have a combined turnover of EUR 13 bn.
Fagor Electrodomésticos manufactured domestic appliances such as fridges, washing machines and ovens and has been loss-making in recent years, in the face of strong competition from manufacturers in Asia. The collapse of the Spanish economy, and particularly of the house-building industry, has also directly affected the company. Around 5,600 people were employed, including those in the Basque country, in the Fagor Brandt plant in a Paris suburb, in a Polish subsidiary, and in several other countries worldwide.
The period in the run-up to receivership has been a very difficult one, both for Fagor Electrodomésticos and for Mondragón. Several hundred workers staged an occupation of their factory in the town of Basauri near Bilbao and there was also a 'human chain' demonstration in the streets of the town of Mondragón, outside the group headquarters.
Although Mondragón operates as a federation rather than as a single business entity, solidarity between its constituent co-operatives has always been a key part of its governance arrangements. The co-operatives contribute financially to group-wide initiatives and jointly establish Mondragón's strategy. There has also been the principle that, where co-operative members face redundancy in one firm, other co-operatives in the group will try to ensure they can be re-employed.
However, the Mondragón group clearly felt that they could not continue to bail out Fagor Electrodomésticos indefinitely. The group's General Council met at the end of October and declined to invest further funds in the co-operative. In a statement it said that "it unanimously considers that the financial resources requested would not guarantee [Fagor's] business future". The statement went on to point out that Fagor Electrodomésticos had already received 300 million euros in recent years from the Mondragón group....(Click title for more)
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Jonathan Kissam is a long-time UE rank and file activist, and currently a member of UE Local 203. He has served on the UE General Executive Board and on the Coordinating Committee of the Vermont Workers Center, where he helped launch the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign in 2008. He has a long-standing interest in how labor and working-class history can help to inform strategies for working-class struggles in the present.
By Jonathan Kissan
Labor Online
Oct 26, 2013 - I think a lot about the problems of building a labor movement for the 21st century. And, as a long-time labor activist who now finds himself a member of a worker-owned cooperative (I work at Webskillet Cooperative, which is both a worker coop and a UE union shop), I struggle with reconciling the militant traditions that have shaped my outlook with the sometimes overly optimistic approach of the cooperative movement.
On Saturday October 19 I drove down to Glens Falls, New York, for an international meeting of union cooperative workers. The newly-formed network of cooperative workers inside UE, which includes four worker coops and the organized workers at two food coops, was hosting a coop delegation from Mexico's Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT).
The UE and FAT have a long and deep relationship. Initially formed during the fight against NAFTA, when the "official," government-controlled trade unions in Mexico supported the free trade agreement, the UE-FAT Strategic Organizing Alliance has included joint organizing projects targeting the same multinational employers, support for each others' organizing - including the FAT organizing Mexican unions to file a complaint against the US for denying collective bargaining rights to public sector workers in North Carolina, and many, many exchanges of rank and file workers.
The UE's semi-official slogan is "The Members Run This Union," reflecting both a commitment to democracy and a belief that working-class people have the capacity to run their own unions. The FAT's slogan, "¡Por la autogestión de la clase trabajadora!" doesn't translate smoothly into English, but it means, roughly, "for the self-management of the working class" - reflecting a belief that working-class people have the capacity to run everything about their lives.
The FAT, unlike UE, is not solely a union (the name literally means "authentic workers' front"). While the union sector is the largest, they have long had a cooperative sector. In large part, this stems from the fact that Mexican labor law, in some cases when an employer cannot pay the settlements they owe to the workers, allows workers to take over buildings and equipment and either sell them or run them cooperatively. However, it also reflects the FAT's commitment to autogestión.
The FAT delegation we met with included the director of the FAT's cooperative sector, a leader from a state workers' union which is forming coops to help its members build their own green housing, the general accountant of a credit union which was formed by the FAT in the wake of a strike 26 years ago, and a member of Bicicooperativa Urbana, a coop of young bicyclists in Mexico City who are sort of an incubator for bicycle-based businesses in the city, including a parcel delivery service, bicycle repair and bicycle parking lots. This was the second UE-FAT exchange to focus on the cooperative sector, following a visit by UE coop members to Mexico in November of last year.
The cooperative movement and the labor movement, of course, emerge from a similar history of working-class organization. ...(Click title for more)
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Film: 'Big Sur' and the Beats
By Tim Grierson
ScreenDaily.com
Big Sur achieves one of the trickier challenges in cinema, dramatising the inner demons of a character awash in melancholy and addiction. This unapologetic mood piece from writer-director Michael Polish, based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, does a fine job of making inertia and self-doubt palpable while keeping pretentiousness and self-indulgence at bay. Aided by a brief running time and sympathetic performances, Big Sur means to be an elegy for Kerouac's Beat Generation, and as such it's a film suffused with sadness.
Polish doesn't overtax the audience's patience. If Big Sur ultimately is nothing more than a fragile, gorgeous-looking flicker of a film, it burns brightly for its moment.
Kerouac has been a frequent figure at the movies of late thanks to the Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl and the recent adaptation of On The Road. (If that wasn't enough, he's also a character in the forthcoming Kill Your Darlings, which like Big Sur premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.) Big Sur is simply too small and idiosyncratic to attract a large audience, but the author's fans should be suitably intrigued by this impressionistic portrait. ![Big Sur Trailer 2013 Stana Katic Movie - Official [HD]](https://thumbnail.constantcontact.com/remoting/v1/vthumb/YOUTUBE/af4fce4b9cd44d2e9f1fe29d2aeec0fd) | Big Sur Trailer 2013 Stana Katic Movie
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Jean-Marc Barr plays Kerouac, who in the early '60s decided to spend some time in Big Sur, California, hoping to reawaken his muse. Hailed as a leader in a creative renaissance that spoke out against American conformity in the 1950s, Kerouac now simply feels adrift, pursuing a romantic fling with Billie (Kate Bosworth), the mistress of his dear friend Neal Cassady (Josh Lucas), and diving deeper and deeper into alcoholism.
Polish (Northfork, Twin Falls Idaho) is a filmmaker interested in concocting ethereal, dreamlike worlds, and with the help of his long-time cinematographer M. David Mullen, Big Sur mirrors the boozy melancholy eating away at its protagonist. With a narrative powered largely by Kerouac's voiceover reading of the book he's working on, the movie is less a character piece than it is episodic glimpses inside debilitating ennui and hopelessness.
The risk, of course, is that such a strategy will result in a lethargic, navel-gazing study of morose self-pity, but Polish largely overcomes such concerns by utilizing a spare shooting style that in its simplicity underscores the depth of Kerouac's despair....(Click title for more)
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Greenwald's Scathing Indictment of Current Law
By Tiger CK
Amazon Reviews
In 'With Liberty and Justice for Some,' Glenn Greenwald, a former civil rights litigator has produced a troubling indictment of the American justice system.
His basic argument is that the system really has two tiers--one for the elite, who can often escape prosecution for serious crimes and another for the rest of us. The law, he argues, no longer creates a level playing field the way the founders of our constitution intended it to. During the last several decades in particular, the powerful have used the law as a weapon against the poor and the weak.
In a tightly written narrative, Greenwald covers how the law has been used to favor what he calls political and financial elites since the 1970s. He begins with President Ford's decision to pardon Richard Nixon despite his egregious crimes against the constitution and carries forward to the present day.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats are spared. He is critical of the worldwide torture and doemstic spying that occurred during the administration of George W. Bush. But he also criticizes Obama for failing to prosecute both former members of the Bush administration and the financial elite on Wall Street.
The book is divided into five sections. The first covers the origin of elite immunity and talks about how the problem of inequality first developed in the public sector. The second covers the spread of elite immunity to the private sector including Wall Street. The third section entitled Too Big to Jail deals with how many on Wall Street and in the banks have escaped prosecution. The fourth entitled Immunity by Presidential Decree deals with presidential pardons; and the final section on the American justice system's second tier deals with how the system works for non-elites.
Greenwald's book is a passionately written one. The pages seethe with the author's moral outrage at the inequalities that exist within the American justice system. And the book will not fail to provoke the same sense of anger in the reader. Some of the problems that Greenwald points to really are inexcusable in a prosperous and democratic society and the author rightly argues that we need to find a way to address them.
I have given this book a high rating because it definitely forced me to rethink some of my fundamental assumptions about the American justice system. At the same time, I did not agree with Greenwald on all of his points. I sometimes found him to be a little bit TOO critical of the government. After September 11, in particular, I believe that the government was faced with unique and shocking circumstances. American officials believed that they had an urgent obligation to find new ways of protecting national security. Although the war on terror led to some acts that were not justifiable, to me these are different in a different category from the government's failure to prosecute Wall Street criminals. In the case of the latter the rich are more or less escaping justice for no good reason. On the whole, however, this book is an important one that raises fundamental questions about how justice is dispensed in America.
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