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RT @OxfamAmerica 7m
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Sign # 2 for tomorrow's #TeaParty protest of the #IRS in Chicago.

Sign #1 for tomorrow's #TeaParty protest of the #IRS in Chicago. #FireSarahIngram

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[VIDEO] Michele Bachmann Presidential Campaign Investigation Joined By FBI

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/michele-bachmann-fbi_n_3306186.html

The FBI has jumped into a multi-pronged investigation of alleged misconduct by the failed presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on Sunday.

While the FBI wouldn't confirm or deny any involvement in the probe, sources with knowledge of the campaign and the investigation told the Star Tribune that the FBI had made inquiries about former Bachmann chief of staff Andy Parrish, as well as other former staffers.

News that Bachmann's campaign had drawn an ethics investigation first broke in March, and the extent of alleged violations has only...

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Bobby Seale originally shared to Seize the Time-Black Panther Party, 60's & Beyond (Historic):
The Black Panther Party was on FBI’s COINTELPRO list. When they really started to focus on us was right after Nixon got elected. He gets elected in November 1968. One of the first people Nixon meets with – before the inauguration, before January 1969 – is J. Edgar Hoover. Now, right in the middle of December 1968, Hoover is on television saying that the Black Panthers are a threat to the internal security of America. Four months later, he is back on television saying that the Free Breakfast for Children Program is a threat to the internal security of America.

In our film,“SEIZE THE TIME: The Eighth Defendant,” (a feature film focusing on life experiences as the founding Chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party and in turn the true history of the Black Panther Party.) we are showing real documents subpoenaed by a Senate committee that our research assistants have gotten a hold of that show Hoover sent out one communiqué as a directive to 43 district offices of the FBI. In this thing, he is directing them to do – in any creative way you can – to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the breakfast program. You must further try to make sure that moderate blacks and liberal whites do not support this program. In a Gallup poll at the time, something like 90% of the black community approved of the Panthers and the breakfast program. Those programs caused a lot of people to look at us differently from “guns.” Hoover didn’t like that. And they were on us.


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All Power To All The People!

Bobby Seale

Here is a link to our Indiegogo Funding page with info on how you can support and be part of getting this independent feature film produced. Please use the PayPal option at the bottom of our contribution page when contributing for your perks (books, DVDs, posters and memorabilia). If you cannot use PayPal, we also have available another option to contribute:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seize-the-time-the-eighth-defendant

#blackpantherparty #bobbyseale #cointelpro #blackpanthers

Bobby Seale originally shared to Seize the Time-Black Panther Party, 60's & Beyond (Historic):
The Black Panther Party was on FBI’s COINTELPRO list. When they really started to focus on us was right after Nixon got elected. He gets elected in November 1968. One of the first people Nixon meets with – before the inauguration, before January 1969 – is J. Edgar Hoover. Now, right in the middle of December 1968, Hoover is on television saying that the Black Panthers are a threat to the internal security of America. Four months later, he is back on television saying that the Free Breakfast for Children Program is a threat to the internal security of America.

In our film,“SEIZE THE TIME: The Eighth Defendant,” (a feature film focusing on life experiences as the founding Chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party and in turn the true history of the Black Panther Party.) we are showing real documents subpoenaed by a Senate committee that our research assistants have gotten a hold of that show Hoover sent out one communiqué as a directive to 43 district offices of the FBI. In this thing, he is directing them to do – in any creative way you can – to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the breakfast program. You must further try to make sure that moderate blacks and liberal whites do not support this program. In a Gallup poll at the time, something like 90% of the black community approved of the Panthers and the breakfast program. Those programs caused a lot of people to look at us differently from “guns.” Hoover didn’t like that. And they were on us.

#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty

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All Power To All The People!

Bobby Seale

Here is a link to our Indiegogo Funding page with info on how you can support and be part of getting this independent feature film produced. Please use the PayPal option at the bottom of our contribution page when contributing for your perks (books, DVDs, posters and memorabilia). If you cannot use PayPal, we also have available another option to contribute:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seize-the-time-the-eighth-defendant

#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty

Bobby Seale originally shared to Seize the Time-Black Panther Party, 60's & Beyond (Historic):
The Black Panther Party was on FBI’s COINTELPRO list. When they really started to focus on us was right after Nixon got elected. He gets elected in November 1968. One of the first people Nixon meets with – before the inauguration, before January 1969 – is J. Edgar Hoover. Now, right in the middle of December 1968, Hoover is on television saying that the Black Panthers are a threat to the internal security of America. Four months later, he is back on television saying that the Free Breakfast for Children Program is a threat to the internal security of America.

In our film,“SEIZE THE TIME: The Eighth Defendant,” (a feature film focusing on life experiences as the founding Chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party and in turn the true history of the Black Panther Party.) we are showing real documents subpoenaed by a Senate committee that our research assistants have gotten a hold of that show Hoover sent out one communiqué as a directive to 43 district offices of the FBI. In this thing, he is directing them to do – in any creative way you can – to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the breakfast program. You must further try to make sure that moderate blacks and liberal whites do not support this program. In a Gallup poll at the time, something like 90% of the black community approved of the Panthers and the breakfast program. Those programs caused a lot of people to look at us differently from “guns.” Hoover didn’t like that. And they were on us.

#blackpantherparty #bobbyseale #cointelpro #blackpanthers

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All Power To All The People!

Bobby Seale

Here is a link to our Indiegogo Funding page with info on how you can support and be part of getting this independent feature film produced. Please use the PayPal option at the bottom of our contribution page when contributing for your perks (books, DVDs, posters and memorabilia). If you cannot use PayPal, we also have available another option to contribute:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/seize-the-time-the-eighth-defendant

#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty

Thanks GOP!! :-D

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This needs to go viral.

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MPs pay activists refuse to take plea

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/MPs-pay-activists-refuse-to-take-plea/-/1056/1858064/-/vldyfxz/-/index.html

Seventeen protesters arrested during last week’s anti-MPs-pay-increase demo in Nairobi have refused to plead to criminal charges pressed against them.

The activists have been slapped with several charges including taking part in an illegal procession and cruelty against animals.

The group Monday said the charges “lacked sufficient disclosure” and asked the court to declare the case “unconstitutional”, and set them free.

“The Constitution demands that anyone arrested should be informed of the charge, given sufficient details, understand it first before pleading,” Lawyer Harun Ndumbi for the accused said.

The accused, he said,...

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Make It a Union-Made Memorial Day Barbecue

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/Make-It-a-Union-Made-Memorial-Day-Barbecue

Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to the summer holiday season. While the day honors those who have given their lives defending the nation—and Jimmy Gilbert, director of the AFL-CIO’s Union Veterans Council, will write more on that next Monday—the weekend also marks the start of grilling season. Here's some union-made food and drink to get your barbecue off to a great start...

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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...

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Milwaukee Area Labor Council's 24th Annual Health & Hygiene Drive

http://wisaflcio.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=7bec8597-8c41-474d-a14d-7612248d0c16

Nearly two dozen Milwaukee homeless shelters are in need of health and hygiene products. Help by collecting items, running workplace drives and asking others to donate. Click here for flyer

COLLECTIONS DATES
April 1 – June 7

DROP-OFF LOCATIONS

Milwaukee Area Labor Council
633 S Hawley Road, Ste. 106

Milwaukee Fire Department Stations

United Way Greater Milwaukee
225 W. Vine St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-263-8100

Monetary donations are also accepted
Please make checks payable to Labor Community@Work.

QUESTIONS?
Jay Reinke
AFL-CIO Community Services Liaison
414-771-9828
jayaflcio@sbcglobal.net

Add...

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International Justice on an Uneven Playing Field

http://worldpress.org/Americas/3964.cfm

In his book "With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful," Glenn Greenwald writes, "Those with political and financial clout are routinely allowed to break the law with no legal repercussions whatsoever. Often they need not even exploit their access to superior lawyers because they don't see the inside of a courtroom in the first place—not even when they get caught in the most egregious criminality." Greenwald is referring specifically to the United States. He references President Gerald Ford's pardoning of Richard Nixon after Nixon broke domestic and internation...

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[VIDEO] Q&A: Thurston Moore on Chelsea Light Moving, Occupy Wall Street and the Future of Sonic Youth

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-thurston-moore-on-chelsea-light-moving-occupy-wall-street-and-the-future-of-sonic-youth-20130516

'Your crystal ball is about as clear as my crystal ball is'

Ever since he and his wife and Sonic Youth bandmate Kim Gordon announced their split in late 2011, Thurston Moore has kept his mouth largely shut. "I wasn't doing any press whatsoever – I kind of embargoed that," says Moore. "Personal issues are not something I talk about. I don't want to even think about it when it comes to media. It's not the place for it." Moore says he doesn't even use his Twitter account. But he and his new, post-Sonic Youth band, Chelsea Light Moving, released their first album in Ma...

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High-Tech’s Sketchy Claims for More Foreign Workers

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/High-Tech-s-Sketchy-Claims-for-More-Foreign-Workers

Why do Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Oracle want to hire foreign high-tech workers instead of qualified U.S. workers? They won’t admit it, but it is because they can—and do—pay them less. That’s why they are pushing so hard for a series of amendments from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that would remove provisions in the immigration bill under consideration that give qualified U.S. workers the first shot at those high-tech jobs.

Not only do they want to shut the door on U.S. workers, they want to be allowed to import even more low-wage/high-tech workers under what is known as the H1B visa program. The Hatch amendment...

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RT @NaomiAKlein 16 May
Thanks @NYTimeskrugman for giving props to The Shock Doctrine, and 4 many good new points http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/the-smithkleinkalecki-theory-of-austerity/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

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RT @NaomiAKlein 16 May
Thanks @NYTimeskrugman for giving props to The Shock Doctrine, and 4 many good new points http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/the-smithkleinkalecki-theory-of-austerity/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

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[VIDEO] Discussing The Latest European GDP Figures

http://www.social-europe.eu/2013/05/discussing-the-latest-european-gdp-figures/

I was interviewed about the recent European GDP figures by CCTV America recently. This is what I had to say.

About Andrew Watt
Andrew Watt is Head of the department Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK – Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung) in the Hans-Böckler Foundation. He was previously senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, where he coordinated research on economic, employment and social policies. For many years he has focused on European economic and employment policies and conducted European-comparative socio-economic research...

RELATED: http://www.businessinsider.com/eurozone-q1-gdp-2013-5

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Ignore the GOP NOISE MACHINE! DO not let these GOP politicians run from their record of hurting 85% of Americans for benefit of a fistful of Billionaires!

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Who Can Stop the Koch Brothers From Buying the Tribune Papers? Unions Can, and Should

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/who-can-stop-the-koch-brothers-from-buying-the-tribune-papers-unions-can-and-should-20130510

A few weeks ago, we did a story about hedge fund king Dan Loeb's plans to address a conference of institutional investors and perhaps solicit new clients among the public retirement funds in attendance, despite his involvement with a political lobbying group that campaigns against those very types of defined benefit plans. When stories by Rolling Stone, Washington Monthly and the New York Post came out about Loeb's affiliations, Loeb canceled his scheduled speech at the Conference of Institutional Investors and fled the event, reinforcing the simple idea that powerful interests can...

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After 39 Years, Steelworker Hands Off Local’s Ledger

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Your-Turn/After-39-Years-Steelworker-Hands-Off-Local-s-Ledger2

Jim “Runt” Gregory served as the financial secretary of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 727 in Calvert City, Ky., during the tenure of eight presidents.

“Presidents of the United States,” he says with a grin.

Gregory, 68, plans to retire this year, so he chose not to seek another term. His union brothers and sisters elected him in 1974 and re-elected him every two years through 2012.

Gregory started keeping his local’s books when Richard Nixon was in the White House. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama followed.

Says Gregory:

Being in the u...

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Fight for $15 and a Union Spreads to Milwaukee as Fast Food Workers Strike in 5th Major U.S. City

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2013/05/fight-for-15.html

Milwaukee fast food workers took action last Wednesday calling attention to poverty wages and poor working conditions. Hundreds of workers from fast food and retail stores including Burger King, McDonald’s, Popeye’s and Dollar Tree walked off the job in solidarity in the fight for $15 an hour and a union.

Tessie Harrell, a mother of six who has worked at Burger King for five years explained, “If we don’t stand up today we are always going to be on the downfall. We work hard for $7.25 and we are standing together to say we are worth more. We need to pay our bills; ...

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