tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:35 +0000This blog features the rants, raves, and ramblings of the writers and editors of the People's Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo newspaper.http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (The People's Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo Newspaper)Blogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-4158997433779206990Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:08:00 +00002009-07-02T09:24:35.511-07:00Jon Voighthate speechbarack obamaGOPJ.M. Eddins Jr./ The Washington Times Actor and conservative commentator Jon Voight is interviewed on "America's Morning News with Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin" at The Washington Times, lashing back at critics who attacked his political views as hate speech.Who'd have thunk it. A movie star who I used to LOVE (especially in Coming Home and The Champ)is upset about my comments about his speechhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/QPh2EiMLpV8/jon-voight-feels-under-attackby-little.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/jon-voight-feels-under-attackby-little.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2099491808294356389Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:14:00 +00002009-06-24T09:17:04.060-07:00There are encouraging signs that the American working class is finding its way toward a strategy of unity and solidarity that can lead to successes. Here in Texas, the labor movement has unified brilliantly against the right-wingers controlling state offices. Our unity in political fights, including unity between the AFL-CIO and the dissident federation, Change to Win, has been admirable.At the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/X38aZb1XBBY/were-finding-our-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/were-finding-our-way.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-7352650188168600929Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:15:00 +00002009-06-18T09:17:49.713-07:00On the 3rd day of the Alliance for Retired Americans Legislative Conference in Washington DC, June 17, retired union members had breakfast with their own unions. In the plenary session afterward, they heard an uplifting message from U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). She was solidly on the side of the retirees and predicted that meaningful health care reform, which was defeated in 1994, will pass inhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/QKIF2xw1QcI/seniors-complete-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/seniors-complete-conference.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3882503830620344459Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:23:00 +00002009-06-17T05:27:05.397-07:00On the second day of the Alliance for Retired Americans’ legislative conference in Washington DC, Teamsters President James Hoffa lauded President Obama and the change represented by the new Administration. He proudly announced that his union had been the first to endorse Obama.Hoffa made a strong plea for change in trade policies. He said, “Teamsters have lost thousands and thousands of jobs duehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/0TTcWyk5gDQ/seniors-are-ambassadors-for-reform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/seniors-are-ambassadors-for-reform.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6213192738205218602Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:41:00 +00002009-06-16T08:42:53.465-07:00At an historic moment in American history, on June 16, 500 delegates to the Alliance for Retired Americans legislative conference convened at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, D.C. The following morning, the first markup for Senator Kennedy’s health care reform would take place in the Congress. ARA Executive Director Edward Coyle pointed out that no one is more committed to health care http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/pQ_92pTQ-88/seniors-plan-to-push-health-care-reform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/seniors-plan-to-push-health-care-reform.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-9088974952277268566Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:03:00 +00002009-06-03T15:06:13.310-07:00DALLAS -- Wal-Mart workers across the country are organizing themselves into unions with the United Food and Commercial Workers, even in Texas! The inside organizing committee held a press conference outside a Wal-Mart at the extreme southern end of Dallas on June 1. It was one of 20 held nationwide as lead-up to Wal-Marts shareholders' meeting on June 5 in Arkansas. North Texas Jobs with Justicehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/z62h7YgzHtY/wal-mart-organizing-drive-spreads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/wal-mart-organizing-drive-spreads.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1067374126625200264Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:13:00 +00002009-06-02T18:19:17.170-07:00Twenty million Texans breathed a sigh of relief on June 2, when the state legislature ended its five-month session. It was probably the least shameful of their biannual meetings in more than a decade!They even accomplished a few things:* They refused to confirm the Governor’s proposed Chairman of the State Board of Education. He doesn’t believe in the science of evolution.* Improved compensation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/2-Yun0gc_c4/texans-less-embarrassed-in-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/texans-less-embarrassed-in-2009.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2334726100125248448Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:02:00 +00002009-06-01T08:05:49.877-07:00By James ThompsonI went to see the new film, "Goodbye Solo," with three of my movie buddies. Director Ramin Bahrani has scored a major hit in dramatizing the misery and struggles which working people endure in our culture today. Its realism propels it into the realm of great art.The movie displays dialectics in the gripping reality of the drama depicted. A Senegalese taxi driver in Winston-Salem,http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/_TXEku45utg/goodbye-solo-study-in-dialectics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/goodbye-solo-study-in-dialectics.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3925877026807096886Sat, 30 May 2009 21:59:00 +00002009-05-30T15:18:15.649-07:00Across America, Jobs with Justice activists are hitting local Chambers of Commerce on a national program designed to take support away from the anti-worker drive being coordinated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Dallas on May 29, about six unions were represented, along with students and religious leaders, on a picket line outside the offices of one of the Chamber offices in the area. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/BVKsRqUDCGM/us-chamber-of-commerce-targeted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/us-chamber-of-commerce-targeted.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8076369411050547285Fri, 29 May 2009 15:42:00 +00002009-05-29T08:52:26.650-07:00 Johnny Wolf, Hadi Jawad, and Valley Reed stand vigil at the Dallas Federal CourthouseBy Jim LaneWith the selection of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice, Americans are hoping that the Obama era will put an end to the drift toward judicial tyranny here in the “land of the free.” Those hopes were shaken when a Dallas judge pronounced harsh sentences on five leaders of the Holy Land http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/swJ7Z3R67RA/palestinians-harshly-sentenced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/palestinians-harshly-sentenced.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6921390662545150607Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:42:00 +00002009-04-05T15:53:01.488-07:00Employee Free Choice ActEFCAunionsbank of americaChicagoans had a great picketline April 4 at the Logan Square branch of Bank of America. Signatures were collected from the community in support of Employee Free Choice Act. Lots of cars honked in support. Bank of America opposes the Employee Free Choice Act and used some of its taxpayer bailout money to organize corporations against the worker rights bill.A full story will be posted later.Here http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/rW2V6t2H6vA/picketline-for-efca-in-front-of-bank-of.htmlcpillinois@cpusa.org (Communist Party of Illinois)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/picketline-for-efca-in-front-of-bank-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-9084546847030940741Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:51:00 +00002009-04-01T13:21:25.920-07:00youthmusicorchestraVenezuela http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/AZwHMeZRb_0/video-music-is-life-venezuelas-amazing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-music-is-life-venezuelas-amazing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6403644950656209686Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:44:00 +00002009-03-25T14:00:09.760-07:00Bobby Jindaleconomic crisisMcCainvolcanoRepublicansCheck out this photo of the lava flow from that Alaska volcano erupting this week. Remember how John McCain, Bobby Jindal and their fellow anti-"big government" phonies ridiculed federal funding for things like volcano observatories?Blogger John Aravosis posted a relevant commentary at AMERICAblog.com earlier this month. He was in Anchorage the last time the same volcano blew, in 1989.Here's an http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/SmL3HVpW0f8/attn-mccain-and-jindal-how-about-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sue Webb)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/attn-mccain-and-jindal-how-about-that.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-5681674735052736617Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:07:00 +00002009-03-21T15:09:11.739-07:00Communist Partyeconomic crisissocialismcapitalismeconomyOut of the crisisBuilding a new era of justice and peacea speech by Sam Webb, National Chair of the Communist Party http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/wH6Otb01WKg/video-out-of-crisis-building-new-era-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/video-out-of-crisis-building-new-era-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3568881014029195810Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-03-19T13:52:00.961-07:00Communist PartypeacesocialismjusticeOut of the crisisBuilding a new era of justice and peacea speech by Sam Webb, national chair of the Communist PartyLIVE streaming videoSaturday, March 219:30 am EasternThis Saturday, March 21, Sam Webb, the national chairperson of the Communist Party USA, will deliver a speech titled, “Out of the crisis: Building a new era of justice and peace.” The speech will be streamed live via the web on thehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/W-KHtISR2xc/communist-party-streaming-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/communist-party-streaming-video.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2954258856776749532Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:25:00 +00002009-03-16T11:50:57.307-07:00GALL AND CHENEYby Lawrence AlbrightHell hath no fury like an ex-Vice President scorned. Or so it seems.Former Vice President Dick Cheney, still smarting over the fact that former President George W. Bush failed to grant a full and complete pardon to Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has grabbed a rhetorical shotgun and and toothbrush and is shooting his mouth off again. This time he states that Americans http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/5BIuypcwRMY/gall-and-cheney.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Lawrence Albright)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/gall-and-cheney.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6814126395754902486Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:11:00 +00002009-03-15T12:17:12.530-07:00United Farm WorkerspetitionMarch 31Cesar Chavez HolidayunionsufwCesar ChavezFrom United Farm Workershttp://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/chavezholiday09/Join the Petition Drive for a National Cesar E. Chavez Holiday!As UFW Founder Cesar Chavez? March 31st birthday approaches--an official holiday in eight states and dozens of cities and communities throughout the nation--we want to ask for your support in making Cesar's March 31st birthday a national holiday.Sen. Robert F. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/tFGE3OLxWEs/sign-petition-for-cesar-chavez-holiday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/sign-petition-for-cesar-chavez-holiday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1972113578435258361Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:41:00 +00002009-03-12T20:44:53.977-07:00Employee Free Choice ActEFCAunionscongressvotesInteresting take on the Senate vote shape up... From Congress Matters http://www.congressmatters.com/story/2009/3/11/134348/804/242/769EFCA head-countingby Nathaniel Ament StoneWed Mar 11, 2009 at 10:43:48 AM PDTThe Employee Free Choice Act was introduced yesterday as H.R.1409 (George Miller with 222 cosponsors) and S.560 (Ted Kennedy with 39 cosponsors). With 223 total sponsors in the House, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/JDH5e9NK4Bc/counting-heads-on-efca-from-congress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/counting-heads-on-efca-from-congress.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-206231982475417583Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:46:00 +00002009-03-12T15:49:15.041-07:00In the middle of the worst crisis of our lifetimes, the Texas Senate has thrown its full energies into solving a problem that doesn’t exist! Even the Dallas daily paper, usually as anti-worker as any mainstream press, ended their lead editorial with “Someone should end this charade.”They referred to the “Voter-ID” bill that was passed by Republicans in the Texas Senate on March 11 with a precise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/-ZgcB5jArAI/charade-shames-texas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/charade-shames-texas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8761533194822687845Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:44:00 +00002009-03-11T14:52:05.222-07:00povertyeconomic crisisworking classraceenvironmentcapitalismBy sometime PWW contributing sports writer and labor activist Chas Walker via Rhode Island's Future, www.rifuture.org:The New York Times has a story today about families hurt by the economic crisis who are living out of motel rooms and cooking off of those plug-in electric burners many of us know as hot plates. The article and accompanying photos show the strain and suffering that the wonders ofhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/BFAVjlRyd-0/cheap-motels-and-hot-plate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Sue Webb)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/cheap-motels-and-hot-plate.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8183226178102406862Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:48:00 +00002009-03-09T13:55:09.926-07:00stem cellsPresident Barack Obamaregenerative medicineCenter for American ProgresssciencebioethicsBy Center for American ProgressPresident Barack Obama takes a first step today toward bringing the United States back to the scientific cutting edge by issuing an executive order that lifts the existing restriction on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. This will allow the National Institutes of Health to award competitive, merit-based grant funding to scientists who wish to conducthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/EiTOzUD01oc/eight-reasons-to-applaud-action-on-stem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/eight-reasons-to-applaud-action-on-stem.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-7356681869184648339Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:01:00 +00002009-03-09T12:05:39.610-07:00Truth about TruckingEmployee Free Choice ActEFCAunionsPeople's Weekly Worldcollective bargainingworker rightscard checkShould Workers be Allowed to Form Unions?March 9th, 2009Employee Free Choice Act - Debate - Today, Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 7 PM ESTIf drivers were allowed to form Unions, could this lead to many small business trucking companies closing their doors?Employment Law Attorney-Eric Meyer, People’s Weekly World Labor Editor John Wojcik… and 15 year trucking veteran, Damien, are the special http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/5pJdyf0Bhls/labor-editor-on-blogtalkradio-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/labor-editor-on-blogtalkradio-tonight.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3739385233765743224Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:50:00 +00002009-03-07T17:53:17.579-08:00Jon StewartCNBCDaily ShowRick Santellieconomy.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCNBC Gives http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/j7fwo4miYBk/daily-shows-jon-stewart-exposes-cnbc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/daily-shows-jon-stewart-exposes-cnbc.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1228983986432606844Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:35:00 +00002009-03-06T14:40:11.401-08:00Communist PartyJoe McCarthyanti-communismMcCarthyismGlenn BeckFrom Crooks and Liars:Glenn "McCarthy" Beck tries to link Communists to Obama, but they don't cooperate By David Neiwert http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-mccarthy-beck-tries-link-commuGlenn Beck's getting increasingly strident and desperate in his attempt to portray the Obama White House as a den of Communism. Yesterday he opened up with yet another "Comrade http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/sjVu0uOmZxw/glenn-mccarthy-beck-tries-to-link.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/glenn-mccarthy-beck-tries-to-link.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-4970973758111044220Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:43:00 +00002009-03-06T11:50:42.943-08:00laborafl-cioFor more photos/blog: http://laborupfront.blogspot.com/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PeoplesWeeklyWorldBlog/~3/z62WAr4SpIQ/labor-up-front.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/labor-up-front.html