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Siân Ruddick looks at the stuggle in Wisconsin, which is changing the US
The battle in Wisconsin has seen hundreds of thousands of US workers rediscover their power. In the most powerful protests for many years, public sector workers—with the support of students, war veterans, pensioners, local campaigners and even some police—have brought the city of Madison to a standstill.
They have shown the US right that they will face determined resistance to any attacks they try to push through. (…)

A cash-strapped German state will fork out billions of taxpayers’ euros to deal with nuclear waste produced by an industry two out of three Germans want axed.
And it won’t even be for permanent disposal, because worldwide there’s no safe technology for that.
For years, anti-nuclear activists have demanded to no avail that the nuclear power industry fund the waste handling problem. One group, the Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow-Dannenberg, which has fought waste dumping at the (…)

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500.
Mr President,
I would like to begin this letter with a poem written by one of the Cuban Five, Antonio Guerrero, when he was locked up in solitary confinement at the Oklahoma Federal Prison, waiting for his next transfer. This was one year ago.
A poem of hope, that pays homage to the international solidarity movement that is growing ever stronger, asking (…)

Thousands of trade unionists rallied in front of the state Capitol in Trenton last week in solidarity with the public workers of Wisconsin who are fighting back against, Scott Walker a righting governor trying to do in 2011 what he would not have dared to do in 1911, when Robert La Follette, Sr., the leading progressive reformer in the nation, was Wisconsin’s United States Senator.
La Follette more than a century ago had led Wisconsin to become the most advanced state in the nation in (…)

Supporting America’s Ambassador of Peace
Cathy Garger
"Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away".
Robert Fulghum
Today I got some bad news. Apparently, my father in law’s health necessitates him to undergo open heart surgery soon. Upon hearing this, my mind immediately flooded with images - memories of my own father on an ICU ventilator immediately following his triple bypass, the visual of my (…)

CITIZEN CONTRIBUTIONS opened until 11th of march 2011
Resale Right has been created to allow artists or their heirs to get some profit back from the resale of their works. Very often, artists sell low prices artworks which are resaled later much more expensive value.
All citizens and artists unions can contribute to the european consultation to promote resale right in all Europe. Contributions are particularly sought from artists, artists unions and collecting societies managing resale (…)

For the benefit of Uncle Sam and Israeli There will be a raid tonight on Tripoli All the cut-throat killers will be there Landing by land, sea and air Murdering for Democracy! And all the while the Yahoo!s smile As their masters celebrate their victory For the benefit of Goldman Sachs The armored robots will attack Flooding onto Libyan shores As their Flickring Twittering Media roars About their liberty! And the mean ugly Americans Play the part of Christians and pray to their God of (…)

In what may seem like a case of David and Goliath, 60 broadcast technicians and engineers at WKYC-TV Channel 3 are standing up to the Gannett Corporation’s nationwide union-busting rampage.
Facing a savage attack on their union, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET) Local 42, the workers got badly needed support from their brothers and sisters at other stations Wednesday, Feb. 23, in an 11-hour silent picket line in front of Channel 3 studios.
Holding (…)

Although it has been overshadowed by events in Libya and Egypt, there is a battle going on in the United States, and it is not hyperbole to suggest that it is a battle for the very soul of the nation.
By current estimates, at least sixteen state governments are in the process of declaring war on American workers, and protests have erupted in at least four of them—Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Since all of these states are located in the same geographical area, I initially (…)

www.empirestrikesblack.com
"Again we are told the protests are spontaneous, inspired by the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings. Again we are told it is the youth yearning for freedom and ’democracy’. But when we look behind the curtain, we see yet another old man from Washington pulling the levers, blowing the smoke, and flashing the lights.."
http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/...