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Respond to Attack on Southwest Workers Union!
Aug 10 2010 - 1:11pmOne of our members, Southwest Workers Union, was attacked last weekend.
Alfredo On...
In these short videos, May First/People Link Co-Director Alfredo Lopez discusses some issues that we believe are of critical importance to both the Internet and the Progressive movement.
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Welcome! May First/People Link is an organization that redefines the concept of "Internet Service Provider" in a collective, politically progressive and collaborative way. May First/People Link's members are organizers and activists. Together, like a coop, we pay dues, buy equipment and then we all use that equipment as we need to for websites, email, email lists, and just about everything else we do on the Internet. Learn more about us, our politics, membership, or read some of our member profiles below. If you like what you see, please join us.
CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, has come full circle in more ways than one.
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Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East is a grassroots strategic alliance of concerned organizations and individuals in New York, formed to demand an immediate, unconditional, and...
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From the earliest antinuclear and ecology movements to current actions against pervasive militarism and corporate globalism, the ISE has inspired people involved in social change to work toward a...
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Member Blogs
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Support Aristide's Return to Haiti
HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE ALERT.
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=444
TO: President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michele Obama:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former liberation theology
priest, was elected by the people of Haiti as their
president in 1990 and again in 2000 (by 60% and 92% of
the vote respectively). Both times he was overthrown by
military coups - in 2004 directly by the US with
backing from France and Canada. UN troops have occupied
Haiti ever since, and thousands of people have been
persecuted... -
August 28th Remembered
by David McReynolds
Socialist Web Zine
August 31, 2010
http://www.socialistwebzine.org/2010/08/august-28th-remembered.html
What a difference money makes. Today, Saturday the 28th
of August, 2010, Glenn Beck rallied on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial with all the majesty of Fox News
behind him. Day after day Fox News had trumpeted the
event, organizing for it, and if Beck doesn't get a
crowd it will be no fault of those who own Fox News and
fund Glenn Beck. (Fox News is one very good reason for
an estate tax which would... -
Workers Rebuilding New Orleans Face Rampant Wage Theft
Undocumented Workers Vital to Reconstruction Face Discrimination and Abuse
By Elise Foley
The Washington Independent
September 1, 2010
http://washingtonindependent.com/96411
Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day
Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse
of workers rebuilding the city after the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina. She once met a man who went to his
employer's house to demand payment for a his labor on a
construction site after the employer stiffed him... -
National Anti-War Coalition Calls for Complete Withdrawal from Iraq
For Immediate Release: August 31, 2010
United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
Contact:
Michael McPhearson, UFPJ Co-Convenor, 973-666-4605, michaelvfp@gmail.com
Phyllis Bennis, UFPJ Steering Committee - 202-234-9382 ext 5206, PBennis@ips-dc.org
Any reduction in the number of US troops occupying Iraq
is a good thing. But the occupation is continuing, even
if on a somewhat smaller scale, with 50,000 troops.
Despite a commitment to withdraw "combat brigades,"
these... -
Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God
Physics, not creator, made Big Bang, new book claims
Professor had previously referred to 'mind of God'
The Guardian
September 2, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator
God did not create the universe, the man who is
arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in
a forthcoming book.
In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen
Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring
following the intervention of a divine being, was
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Populist Passion Is Antidote to Bankster Greed
By John Nichols
Capitol Times
August 30, 2010
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/article_de5521a0-5a99-532f-bce0-060a69c4aa28.html
It is hard to imagine a better setting for Jim Hightower to
renew the populist call to action than Fighting Bob Fest, the
county-fair-style outdoor gathering of 10,000 progressives
where the agitator from Austin will appear Sept. 11.
And it is hard to imagine a better time. [...] -
Is Glenn Beck mobilizing the religious right for November?
Beck's vacuous but pious rally may have served to
inaugurate a pre-election bid for power by the
evangelical right
By Joe Conason
August 30, 2010
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/opinion/conason/2010/08/30/pray
If Glenn Beck's Washington extravaganza seemed strangely
empty of political content, filled with vacuous pieties and
fetishes rather than protest, then perhaps it should be seen
as the opening act in a renewed campaign to assert the power
of... -
Health Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill
By Gina M. Solomon, MD, MPH, and Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH
JAMA/Journal of the American Medical Association
August 16, 2010
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/jama.2010.1254?eaf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico poses direct threats to
human health from inhalation or dermal contact with the oil
and dispersant chemicals, and indirect threats to seafood
safety and mental health. Physicians should be familiar with
health effects from oil spills to appropriately advise,
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25 companies responsible for 700,000 lost jobs
Submitted by Robert Oak on Wed, 08/18/2010
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/25-companies-responsible-700000-lost-jobs
* Insourcing/Outsourcing * layoffs.labor arbitrage
Daily Finance has compiled a list, from Challenger and Gray
layoff data, of the top 25 companies with the biggest job
losses this recession.
From The Layoff Kings: The 25 Companies Responsible for
700,000 Lost Jobs author Douglas McIntyre, compiled the list
below. I've added whether or not that company is known for
offshore...