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  • Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela
    18 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we’re trying to divulge this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in this country.
    Enough killings and repression of workers in struggle!
    This past May 5 union leader Argenis Vasquez, organizing secretary in the union at Toyota’s plant in Cumana, was gunned down by thugs as he left his house. This assassination occurred just after a month-long strike (…)

  • Fear of Crime and Things to Come
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fear resides in all living creatures. It’s what keeps us alive down at the watering hole or out on the street.
    The fear of crime strikes all who live with its dread, as well as those who are personally victimized. Fear keeps us from doing what we want to do; it causes us to distrust friends and to view strangers with prejudice; and it can trick us into trading freedom for a false sense of security.
    Hard Times
    Many of us have grown up with an expectation that we have the right to a (…)

  • Stray Cats
    5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stray Cats By David Glenn Cox
    I watch the sun go down reluctantly. This world offers little, and I have little to offer in return. I have lost everything, so as the birds sing at daylight’s demise, I hear no music. The world has lost its music for me; it is just an endless grind with a police siren in the distance.
    I went to Wal-Mart. God, I hate Wal-Mart, but I needed dish soap and hand soap, and well, beer. Some days are harder than others and this one was a difficult one. I live on (…)

  • From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You
    1 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You By David Glenn Cox
    So it has come to this, why must I wake the sleeping? It wasn’t so long ago I was asleep myself. Why must I be the one to tell you what you don’t want to hear? Why must I tell you about how quickly hot red human blood congeals and turns black when mixed with cold pavement or frozen mud? Murderous armies training automatic weapons on women and children, then firing off a few rounds, just for fun. (…)

  • One-tenth of Americans already applies to food stamps: Each month, the U.S. lost 680,000 jobs
    6 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    One-tenth of Americans already applies to food stamps: Each month, the U.S. lost 680,000 jobs
    Despite the rescue packages and Konjunkturptogramme, the U.S. president in Obama trillion level incentives Schwill initial unemployment in the U.S. continues to grow. In March the unemployment rate climbed to 8.5 percent, and 660,000 more people lost their jobs. In the financial sector, however, only 43,000. The White House went so far optimistic assumption that unemployment by the end of the year (…)

  • Russian auto workers protest lay-offs at AVTO-VAZ plant in Tolyatti
    8 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russian auto workers protest lay-offs at AVTO-VAZ plant in Tolyatti
    AvtoVAZ Stopping Plant Indefinitely
    AvtoVAZ, Russia’s biggest automaker, is stopping its conveyor indefinitely, the company said in a statement Friday evening.
    “The conveyor was stopped on Thursday for an indeterminate amount of time due to nondelivery of auto components," the statement said.
    The company’s official announcement seems to be at odds with assurances made by AvtoVAZ chief executive Boris Alyoshin to (…)

  • GM, Chrysler offer workers cash, cars to leave
    6 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    GM, Chrysler offer workers cash, cars to leave
    Tue Feb 3, 2009 12:38am By Poornima Gupta
    DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) and Chrysler LLC on Monday began offering a new round of retirement incentives including vouchers for cars as the automakers move to reduce workers and inventory.
    GM will offer its U.S. hourly workers $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 voucher to buy a vehicle as an incentive to retire or leave the company, an official with the United Auto Workers union (…)

  • Economic meltdown could cost 50 million jobs, says ILO
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    One World South Asia 29 January 2009
    The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET).
    Source: minnesotaindependent.com
    The ongoing financial crisis could add another 50 million to the globally unemployed. This grim scenario is predicted by ILO’s latest report (…)

  • We Poke Along
    12 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034 establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergency Relief Agency. You see, they didn’t have any cut-and-dried answers, they were in new territory and kept trying things until they got it right. The WPA only existed for eight years, but over the course of its life it employed a total of 8,500,000 people.
    Republicans called it a bastion for (…)

  • Happy Idiot
    9 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Gee, I wish I could be a happy idiot. Just think, then nothing to worry about except whether Tom Cruise and his wife are going to have another baby or not. Gosh, life would be swell; it makes you wonder why Steinbeck wrote all those depressing stories about poor people. How could anyone sit through Hemingway’s story about an old fisherman and a fish when they could have been reading about who Clark Gable was dating?
    It really makes you wonder about this world, (…)