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By Randy Shannon, CCDS
"Everyone has the right to work, to free of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948
I. Introduction
The "Great Recession" that began in 2007 has caused the greatest percent of job losses since the Great Depression of 1929. This crisis is the end of an era of unrestrained 'neo-liberal' capitalism that became public policy during the Reagan administration. The crisis marks a new level of instability with the growth of a global financial elite that targeted US workers and our trade unions after World War II.
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By Emma Margolin
MSNBC
Dec 4, 2014 - Thousands of low-wage employees in approximately 190 cities walked off the job Thursday in what organizers are calling the largest fast food worker strike to date.
Demanding $15-an-hour pay and the right to unionize without retaliation, fast food workers across the country hit the streets for the eighth time since the movement began two years ago with about a couple hundred employees in New York City.
The campaign has since gone global, with one strike in May accompanied by solidarity rallies in 32 other countries. During the last nationwide fast food workers' strike, on September 4, nearly 500 striking protesters were arrested in civil disobedience actions, such as blocking traffic.
No one participating in Thursday's protest had been arrested as of the afternoon, and there were no reported international rallies. But what made the strike unique was that for the first time employees from discount and convenience stores, as well as workers from 10 of the nation's busiest airports joined forces with fast food employees in their call for higher wages and better working conditions. Home health care workers, who first participated in September's strike, turned out in larger numbers this time around too, and some employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which recently saw its own series of strikes, also joined in.
"Now, it's not just about fast food workers," said Kendall Fells, organizing director for Fast Food Forward, in an interview with msnbc. "Just about every low-wage service sector industry is getting involved, which is pretty much the heart of the American economy."
Their efforts are starting to show some results. In Seattle and San Francisco, lawmakers have passed measures raising wages to $15 an hour over the next couple of years. The growing campaign has also gained support from powerful allies, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. But many workers in low-wage service sector industries still live in poverty.
"I can't make it on this type of income," Shantel Walker, 32, told msnbc. She's worked on and off at Papa John's Pizza in Brooklyn since 1999, but earns just $8.50 an hour - $.50 above the state's minimum wage. Though she struggles to see 30 hours of work per week, Walker took off Thursday to participate in the strike. She said she wasn't afraid of being fired or punished. "The punishment is making this type of money," Walker said.
From Miami to Milwaukee; New York City to Los Angeles, protests began in the early hours of Dec. 4, the date workers unanimously agreed upon during a November conference call for their latest and largest strike. One of the protests' main targets this time was McDonald's, which according to PayScale, pays its employees an average wage of $9.15 an hour.
McDonald's has said in a statement to Al Jazeera that the labor actions weren't "strikes" at all, but rather "organized rallies for which demonstrators are transported to various locations, and are often paid for their participation." Organizers vehemently deny the accusation that strikers are paid, except for some who can't afford to take the day off; they're paid less than a day's wages from SEIU's strike fund, the Washington Post reported.
"McDonald's has spent the last two years trying to divert attention from the fact that their workers live in poverty," Fells said. "Bottom line is, workers are not being paid to be on strike."
Thursday's protest in New York City was colored with outrage that flared up a day earlier after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Staten Island resident, Eric Garner. The decision came just one week after a different grand jury reached the same conclusion in the case of Darren Wilson, a police officer who shot and killed Ferguson teenager Mike Brown. Both Garner and Brown were unarmed black men killed by white police officers.
After taking over a Burger King in Brooklyn, New York City protesters briefly disrupted an otherwise normal day at a McDonald's in downtown Manhattan, cheering along with a marching band. Mixed in with "15 and a union" chants were the rallying cries, "Hands up, don't shoot," and "I can't breathe," both inspired by the deaths of Brown and Garner.
Many low-wage workers saw a connection between their protest Thursday and the ones that have covered the streets of Ferguson and Staten Island in the past week. As Fells put it, they're all "fights against injustice in the U.S."
"As fast food workers, we feel really upset about the [Eric Garner] decision," Walker said outside the McDonald's on Chambers Street. "This is our way of showing the world how we feel at this time. We want to fight the powers that be so we can be."...(Click title for more)
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By Egberto Willies DailyKOS
T-Dubb-O a St. Louis activist/rapper appeared on the Ed Show today. More on T-Dubb-O is found at the end of the article. He describes an incident that occurred in St. Louis that seemed only possible in communist China or Cold War era Soviet Union.
T-Dubb-O said he was having lunch at a TGI Fridays in downtown St. Louis. He said when they left they noticed they were being followed by three trucks. After exiting the highway thy were stopped by these trucks. At first T-Dubb-O believed it might be the KKK since his life along with his passengers, journalist Bassem Masri, and activist Rika Tyler were threatened by the KKK.
It was the police that stopped them for no reason. T-Dubb-O said that the police held him with a gun to his head. He was told to stop asking questions lest the current protests would be for him next. After the police placed a gun to the head of Rika Tyler as well, T-Dubb-O became concerned and stopped talking as he feared the police would kill her.
It turns out that because of his organizing and protests, he was under surveillance by police for several weeks.They however had no reason to hold them or arrest them. T-Dubb-O said he will not allow the intimidation to stop his activism to fight oppression. Who is T-Dubb-O?
After watching the Ed Schultz piece I tweeted T-Dubb-O and asked him to appear on my show Politics Done Right on KPFT. I needed to know who this young activist was. After-all, why would the establishment fear him.
I checked out T-Dubb-O on the Internet and spoke to him by phone to find out a little more about him. Turns out this young man is an activist rapper that decided to get completely engaged in the social justice arena. He is a very effective grassroots activist that has formed many decentralized alliances which is dangerous for the establishment.
This young man grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He has been arrested several times but never convicted of anything. He dispels all the stereotypes of the rapper simply with his organizational skills and sheer intelligence.
After speaking to him I prodded him about his academics. He was thrown out of his high school. "I would not conform to the indoctrination to what I know was false," T-Dubb-O said. "Hey, I had a 4.3 GPA and a 29 on my ACT. ... They told me I needed to take a class for my GED and then they asked me why did I need to be there. I aced all categories of the GED." None of this surprised me as I found this young man to be rather brilliant.
T-Dubb-O is a St. Louis world renown underground rapper that has traveled to and has lots of fans in Japan, Australia, Canada, England, and many other countries. He has worked with many social justice organizations and have been to the White House. Visit his website at T-Dubb-O.com.
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By Kevin Gosztola FireDogLake
Dec 2, 2014 - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder met with seven black and Latino organizers yesterday to discuss police violence in not just Ferguson, Missouri, but throughout the country. Following the meeting, Obama announced some steps his administration would be taking to address some of the issues raised. Organizers who participated in the meeting responded to the announced steps.
Obama announced there would be a task force that will "reach out and listen to law enforcement and community activists and other stakeholders." After 90 days, a report with "concrete recommendations, including best practices for communities where law enforcement and neighborhoods are working well together" will be provided to Obama.
An executive order regulating the 1033 program, the federal program where military equipment is provided to police departments, will be issued. Obama will also be proposing "new community policing initiatives," particularly providing "up to 50,000 additional body-worn cameras for law enforcement."
Ashley Yates of Millennial Activists United (MAU), who met with Obama, addressed the proposed measures on a press conference call. The body cams, she noted, would not necessarily save black lives from police brutality or from being denied justice. In the case of the young black man, John Crawford, there was surveillance video of a cop gunning him down as he held an unloaded air rifle in the middle of a Walmart. Authorities still refused to indict the officer. It is possible this happens again in the cases of Tamir Rice and Eric Garner, whose deaths at the hands of police were also captured on video.
The movement, according to Yates, is for the abolition of the 1033 program. "It is a form of psychological torture to walk down your street and see Humvees posted on the corner. I do not see a need for those in our city," she stated. She could not believe that these "checks and balances" on the 1033 program had not been issued yet.
Yates also said that there must be youth voices and black people who are activists in the room when the task force meets with individuals to develop their report. "You have to allow space for the people who are affected by the militarization, by police brutality, to define their oppression so we can actually frame the problem correctly."
T-Dubb-O, a St. Louis hip-hop artist who was part of the group that met with the president, suggested, "He's the first African-American president of the United States." Obama should make this "his own issue and have a speech about it. Come out and open his mouth and use the power and influence that he has in that seat. Tell the rest of America that there is an issue. He's experienced the same issue that we're facing today. There is an issue." ...(Click title for more)
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Dec 4, Never Forget: Lessons about Police Violence from One Generation to the Next.
By Bill Fletcher Jr BillFletcherJr.com
Dec 5, 2014 - I was in high school at the time. I was already "political", as we used to say, that is, a young activist. I was stunned when I heard the news.
Anyone close to the Black Panther Party knew of the growing legend of Fred Hampton, leader of the Black Panther Party in Chicago. He was a remarkable leader. He inspired not only Panthers, but countless other activists. And he had a sense of the sort of strategy that needed to be put into place to build a winning mass movement: it was the first "rainbow coalition." Hampton was the key player in building an alliance of radical forces who had emerged from different social movements and different races/nationalities.
Fred Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark were murdered on December 4, 1969. The Chicago Panthers had been infiltrated by government agents. Hampton and Clark were drugged so that they were in no position to escape the attack on their headquarters by the Chicago Police.
The murder of Hampton and Clark was part of a larger decapitation process underway aimed at the leaders of various radical and progressive social movements. The principal instrument for this decapitation was the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), constructed by the FBI originally to destroy the Communist Party, but later used more broadly against many left-leaning forces. As the outstanding documentary COINTELPRO 101 details, COINTELPRO was used not only against African Americans, but was part of a process of infiltrating the Movement and its organizations; encouraging splits; spreading rumors; and creating so-called "Black propaganda" as a means of discrediting the Left. Many great leaders of the emerging New Left and progressive movements were jailed, killed, driven insane or forced into exile.
Hampton's charisma, leadership style and coalition-building approach were all much too much of a threat to the powers at be. He had to be removed from the scene. The forces of evil were quite aware that by removing credible leaders, such as Hampton, there would be an enlarging void in the Panthers and other such groups leading, ultimately, to some form of implosion.
Hampton had a certainty that the oppressed would ultimately win. It was a certainty that is critical for all those who hold true to the need for fundamental social transformation. But it is a certainty that must be matched, to borrow from Gramsci, with a soberness as to the challenges that face us as we march down this dangerous path.
In the midst of the upsurges over the last several years, whether the Madison uprising; Occupy; the Chicago Teacher's strike; or the current protests against police brutality and lynching, it is especially important to remember the stance of those, like Fred Hampton, who not only remained firm, but recognized that a movement cannot win in the absence of organization; and it cannot win in the absence of the correct sort of political alignment of the population. Real politics, in other words, is not about flying the perfect flag, or giving the most radical speech, but instead concerns the process of giving a critical mass of people a sense of hope driven by a vision and strategy that suggests that not only must we win, but that we actually can win.
Let us bring forward many, many more Fred Hamptons.
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Contradictions In This Political Moment: 2014 And The Future
By Harry Targ
Diary of a Heartland Radical
On Contradictions
Political philosophers influenced by the writings of Marx and Engels emphasize the connections among all social processes, the opposing characteristics embedded in them, and how social dynamics are intrinsically conflictive leading to new and different futures.
For most activists this means that politics and history are complicated. Before drawing premature conclusions about what is going on and what to do about it, thoughtful reflection on the multiple dimensions of causes and effects and effects and causes are needed. No more is this so than in coming to grips with the political "time of day" in which we live.
The Advance of Reaction
Recent events underscore the rise of what can reasonably be called "neo-fascism," advances in the construction of a police state, a desperate and renewed commitment to U.S. imperialism, escalated assaults--economic, political, police--on African Americans, Latinos, women, workers, and immigrants, and gluttonous increases in corporate and banking profits while gaps in wealth, income, and political power widen.
The November, 2014 election brought Republican control of the U.S. Senate (53-44 so far) and the House of Representatives (243-178), and both houses of 29 state legislatures compared to 11 Democratic-dominated state legislatures. In total Republicans hold majorities in 68 of 98 state legislative bodies.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be holding a planning meeting in Washington the first week of December to map out an agenda for the newly victorious Republicans at all levels of government. High on their agenda will be legislation blocking increases in minimum wages, expanding so-called right-to-work laws, limiting access to Medicaid, restricting global taxes on tobacco, creating more free trade agreements, and increasing the privatization of schools. Of course the Republican wave brings with it more climate change deniers, war hawks, and anti-choice activists, tinged with biblical visions of public policy.
The crisis over the police murder of young Mike Brown has highlighted the racial and class character of the criminal justice system in the United States. Various data sources have uncovered the egregious racism in the criminal justice system from arrests, access to legal counsel, trials, convictions, sentencing, and incarceration.
For example, white policemen were 21 times more likely to shoot a Black man than a white man between 2007 and 2012. At least two Black men were killed by white policemen each week during these years, killing at least 500. (This was double the number of lynchings occurring during a five year period before anti-lynching laws were introduced in Congress in the 1920s). Michelle Alexander estimates that there are more African Americans in jail in 2010 than were enslaved in 1850).
Furthermore, while African Americans constitute 13 percent of drug users they constitute 46 percent of drug convictions (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "Organizing Fergusons," Jacobin, November 26, 2014, jacobinmag.com)....(Click title for more)
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Thuringia's unprecedented three-way left-leaning coalition government, with Die Linke at the head, has sought to show a mainstream face on announcing its plans for the next five years. One pledge was a 2015 budget with no new government debts.
Report from DW/Reuters Nov 20, 2014
Future state premier Bodo Ramelow of the Left party, who is set to become the first ever Left politician to lead a German state government, allowed other members of his coalition to steal the spotlight on Thursday. Other leaders from the Social Democrats, Greens, and the Left presented a 150-page document outlining the new coalition's plans for the next five years in office.
Ramelow should take center stage on December 5, when a parliamentary vote appointing him as state premier is scheduled to take place.
In the eastern German state's capital, Erfurt, the new coalition presented its plans on issues including education, family, job creation, the economy, and state finances.
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow of the Left party, Andreas Bausewein from the Greens and the Social Democrats' Dieter Launiger - the parties' respective leaders on the parliamentary floor in Erfurt (pictured together at top of article) - said that their government would not take on any new debts. This "black zero," as it's commonly described in the papers and by politicians, is a key conservative policy on the national level.
Left seeking to break into mainstream
The Left's Bodo Ramelow said that this, perhaps surprising, proposal was a statement of his intent to serve Thuringia's interests, not his party's policy preferences. Bodo Ramelow Fraktionschef der Linken im Thüringer Landtag 24.10.2014 Erfurt
Ramelow is set to be voted state premier next month
"I will be the state premier for Thuringia and not the Left party's outpost within the state chancellery," Ramelow told Reuters on Thursday. The Left, Germany's third-largest party, is eager to demonstrate its viability as a coalition partner.
Mainstream parties in many German states - and on the national level - currently categorically rule out a political alliance with "Die Linke," the democratic successor to the Communist SED that ruled in former East Germany. Party leader Gregor Gysi has already hailed the Thuringia coalition as a sign that this situation is changing. Theoretically, the same parties could join together and hold a majority in the national German parliament as well.
The three-way coalition, known as a "red-red-green" alliance in German parlance after the parties' respective colors, is a major change for Thuringia since German reunification. Every state government since had been led by Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. The CDU was still Thuringia's most successful single party in September's election, but the conservatives could not find a willing coalition partner.
Thin majority, strong opposition
Combined, the Left, the Greens and the Social Democrats can scrape together a one-seat majority (46 of the 91 available) in the state parliament. The CDU holds 34 seats, the euroskeptic AfD party has the remaining 11, making the opposition all-conservative....(Click title for more)
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Newly announced progressive economic agenda, says Sen. Bernie Sanders, is designed "to reverse a 40-year decline of the American middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else in the United States." (Background photo: Randen Pederson/flickr/cc)
By Jon Queally Common Dreams
In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced his vision for a progressive economic agenda that he says could restore shared prosperity, reinvigorate the middle class, and mitigate a host of social crises that stem from the current system that has created great wealth for a select few while systematically eroding the quality of life for the many.
"Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?" -Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)Detailing twelve economic areas that need immediate attention and major overhauls, Sanders indicated his plan is driven by the neeed to re-establish the status of the middle class as the key indicator of overall economic health.
"The American people must make a fundamental decision," Sanders said. "Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?"
As outlined by his office, Sanders' economic agenda would:
- Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.
- Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations.
- Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas.
- Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.
- Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty.
- Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make.
- Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs.
- Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America's competitive edge compared to other nations.
- Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards.
- Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost.
- Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs.
- Reform the tax code based on wage earners' ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes....(Click title for more)
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By Rod Such The Electronic Intifada
Dec 2, 2014 - For many people in the United States, Ilan Pappe's 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine was a major revelation. It changed the discourse from the Israeli occupation of 1967 to the occupation of 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries conquered 78 percent of historic Palestine.
The Zionist narrative - heroic post-Holocaust Jewish people establishing a safe refuge for Jews all over the world while Palestinian Arabs voluntarily left their homes, expecting to return on the heels of victorious Arab armies - was so dominant that few Americans questioned it. Generations grew up with this and many other foundational myths that obscured the reality of Israel's birth and the nature of the state which Zionism created.
For Palestinians who recognized the colonialism inherent in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and who experienced the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1947-48, these myths never needed to be demolished. Nevertheless, they suffered under those myths and could even be identified as terrorists for opposing them.
Early Israeli textbooks depicted 1948 as virtually a divine miracle, though as Pappe points out in his latest book, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso), this foundational myth has an "internal paradox" because "if the Palestinians fled without fighting, then what was so heroic about 1948?"
The Idea of Israel traces how segments of Israeli society and academia eventually came to grips with their country's history. This is a process beginning with early anti-Zionists on the Marxist left, through the emergence of a new generation of demythologizing Israeli historians, to a period Pappe describes as post-Zionist, ending in what he says is the present-day neo-Zionist reality. Mood, not movement
Post-Zionism, which involved a widening critique of Zionism from many academic perspectives, including the disciplines of sociology, literary and art criticism, philosophy and political science, did not last long, roughly from 1993 to 2001, according to Pappe, who describes it as a "mood," rather than a movement.
"Classical Zionism was the ideology to which successive governments in Israel, both left and right, subscribed until 1993," he writes. "Thereafter for a short period, at least until [Israeli prime minister] Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995 and possibly until 1999, there was an attempt at a more liberal, possibly even a post-Zionist, approach. Ever since, and until today, a neo-Zionist policy has taken its place." "Post-mortem"
Pappe describes his book as a "post-mortem" on post-Zionism. He ends it with a critique of its successor, neo-Zionism, which acknowledges the Nakba but attempts to justify it as necessary for the creation of a Jewish state....(Click title for more)
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'One of the Year's Best Films'
By Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice
Dec 3 2014 - On October 8, 2012, Rush Limbaugh - the radio host and resentment profiteer - said this to a listener who had called to complain about how hard it is to argue with liberals: "I wouldn't tell them what you hear anybody else say, because that's just an opening for them to say, 'Well, they're a liar,' or 'They don't know anything.' "
'Sex was supposed to be OK now, but if we were pregnant, it was our problem.'
What's interesting here isn't whatever it is that Limbaugh's arguing. Instead, look at the pronouns. The indefinite anybody, which is singular, is antecedent to those theys, which are plural. That's a now-common usage that, in Limbaugh's youth, was not that common at all: In the '50s and '60s, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, any real man speaking of a hypothetical person of uncertain gender would have defaulted to he.
This exemplifies the profound success of the waves of feminism that Limbaugh has made his millions railing against: Since the '60s, when a generation of activists and critics dared to argue that women should be allowed to make decisions and hold jobs of note and be paid worth a damn and not get raped, feminism has fundamentally changed most aspects of our lives today - even the very language Rush Limbaugh speaks.
And he doesn't even know it.
One of the year's best films, Mary Dore's She's Beautiful When She's Angry is an urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters of second-wave feminism, the movement that - no matter what its detractors insist - has given us the world in which we live.
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"We live in a country that doesn't like to credit any of its radical movements," Susan Brownmiller says in the film. "They don't like to admit in the United States that change happens because radicals force it." A score of those who dared force it turn up for fresh interviews in Dore's wide-ranging film: Here's Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Willis, Fran Beal, Judith Arcana, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and many more, dishing truth and priceless anecdotes about what it felt like to change the world - and how tough it was to do so. Dore's generous with fiery archival footage - marches, chants, meetings, gobsmackingly sexist news reports - as she traces the development of the National Organization for Women and its many sister groups, culminating in 1970's Women's Strike for Equality....(Click title for more)
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