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Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression
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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 15:04:49 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | 09.03
Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11260-help-workers-connect-the-dots-to-th=
is-larger-system-of-oppression-dressed-up-as-free-enterprise-and-freedom
Laura Flanders, Truthout: "You could choke on the irony in Charlotte this L=
abor Day. The United States' faux labor holiday falls on day one of the Dem=
ocratic National Convention. While the Democrats will no doubt tip their ha=
t to working people and imbibe a beer or two on labor's campaign tab, the r=
agged edge of organized labor's relationship with the Democratic Party will=
be on painful display. After all, it's supposed to be a holiday."
Richard D. Wolff | Capitalism's Ideological Crutches
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11241-capitalisms-ideological-crutches
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "Capitalists and the rich remain determined now=
NOT to bear the costs of the bailouts or the crisis. Unlike in the 1930s, =
they don't see organized, determined and militant workers' movements to wor=
ry about today - nor any USSR positioned as an alternative to modern capita=
lism. So, they push austerity policies for governments everywhere. To susta=
in governments' austerity policies, capitalists and the rich lean on their =
ideological crutches to try to thwart political opposition. The mainstream =
ideology that works best as capitalism's crutch is blame the government."
Raising the Minimum Wage Is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11294-minimum-wage-raise-is-the-least-we-=
can-do-to-civilize-america
Mark Weisbrot, McClatchy/Tribune Services: "There is currently legislation =
before Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 an=
hour to $9.80, over three years. After that it would be indexed to inflati=
on. Contrary to prevailing myths about who would benefit from a proposed in=
crease in the minimum wage, 88 percent of the 28 million workers affected a=
re not teenagers. As the Economic Policy Institute has shown, the majority=
are full-time workers, and on average they earn about half of their famili=
es' income. And 28 percent of the nation's 76 million children would have =
a parent who would benefit from the raise."
IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11295-iaea-report-shows-iran-reduced-its-bre=
akout-capacity
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Contrary to the impression conveyed by=
most news media coverage, the report provides new evidence that Iran's enr=
ichment strategy is aimed at enhancing its bargaining position in negotiati=
ons with the United States rather than amassing such a breakout capability.=
"
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | No Minimum Wage for the Mariana Islands?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11292-no-minimum-wage-for-the-mariana-isl=
ands
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: "As the sun slowly sets over=
the Republican National Convention in Tampa, we settle back in the chairs =
that nice Mr. Eastwood just gave us and ponder some of the other oddities o=
f the week. Like this item in the official GOP platform pointed out by Brad=
Plumer of The Washington Post: No minimum wage for the Mariana Islands. 'T=
he Pacific territories should have flexibility to determine the minimum wag=
e, which has seriously restricted progress in the private sector.'"
Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell's Arctic Drilling
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11297-resource-wars-connect-yanomami-massacr=
e-and-shells-arctic-drilling
Subhankar Banerjee, Climate StoryTellers: "It has been a painful day for me=
. Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yan=
omami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Sh=
ell's drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Both are about resource wars that lead =
to killing-humans and/or animals, fast or slow, one to get gold, and the ot=
her to get oil."
Robert Reich | Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It's Inequality, Stupid
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11293-labor-day-and-the-election-of-2012-=
its-inequality-stupid
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The most troubling economic trend facin=
g America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income,=
wealth, and political power at the very top =E2=80=93 among a handful of e=
xtraordinarily wealthy people =E2=80=93 and the steady decline of the great=
American middle class. Inequality in America is at record levels. The 400 =
richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us pu=
t together."
The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11296-the-environmental-health-costs-of-a-pe=
trochemical-future-for-north-carolina
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: "A chemical industry trade group is touting a jo=
b-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that buildi=
ng a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products used to m=
ake plastics and synthetic fabrics would create thousands of jobs for the s=
tate. But the experience of other places with similar facilities shows thos=
e jobs would come at a heavy cost to the health of the environment and loca=
l community."
Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11302-waste-more-want-more-america-throws-ou=
t-good-food
Andrew Lam, New America Media: "We are throwing away away up to 40% of our =
food, the research finds. That is estimated to be around $165 billion in wa=
sted food each year. Even if we suffer from a long drawn-out recession, the=
average family of four winds up throwing out as much as $2,200 worth of fo=
od a year. Then there are the side effects: Garbage production in the Unite=
d States has doubled in the last 30 years."
Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34
http://truth-out.org/video/item/11301-striking-south-african-miners-charged=
-with-murder-after-police-kill-34
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: "On August 16 in South Africa, at the Lonm=
in mine in Marikana, police killed 34 miners who were on strike amongst hun=
dreds in a confrontation with police. A postmortem exam, according to a loc=
al television station, revealed that most of the miners killed were shot in=
the back while they were fleeing police, not as they were, according to th=
e police, about to surround and attack the police. Now there have been char=
ges laid for these murders. Two hundred and seventy miners were charged in =
the deaths, and no policemen."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Tuesday, September 4.
Exposing the "Job Creator" Fraud: The Vulture Capitalist Assault on Labor =
=20
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11722-exposing-the-job-c=
reator-fraud
Why Do Americans Hate the Media? Just Watch the Conventions
Read the Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/why-do-americans-hate-t=
he-media-just-watch-the-conventions/261879/
Don't Count Out the Labor Movement
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11723-don-t-count-out-th=
e-labor-movement
There Was A Secret Ruling Against The NSA For Spying On Americans
Read the Article at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-spying-4th-amendment-2012-8#ixzz25Q8YdE8=
Z
Hundreds Take Part in "March on Wall Street South" in Charlotte, North Caro=
lina
Read the Article at NBC
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/02/13621900-hundreds-take-part-in-m=
arch-on-wall-street-south-in-charlotte-nc?lite
Saying No To Wage Theft
Read the Article at Musings from Alongside a Border
http://alongsideaborder.blogspot.com/2012/09/fuerza.html
Inside Karl Rove's Billionaire Fundraiser
Read the Article at Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-31/exclusive-inside-karl-roves=
-billionaire-fundraiser
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Don't Count Out the Labor Movement</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Inside Karl Rove's Billionaire Fundraiser</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Laura Flanders, Truthout:</strong> "You could choke on the irony in Charlotte this Labor Day. The United States' faux labor holiday falls on day one of the Democratic National Convention. While the Democrats will no doubt tip their hat to working people and imbibe a beer or two on labor's campaign tab, the ragged edge of organized labor's relationship with the Democratic Party will be on painful display. After all, it's supposed to be a holiday."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qTrd6FoDXKiR1HcLhRP9TjLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Richard D. Wolff | Capitalism's Ideological Crutches</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Truthout:</strong> "Capitalists and the rich remain determined now NOT to bear the costs of the bailouts or the crisis. Unlike in the 1930s, they don't see organized, determined and militant workers' movements to worry about today - nor any USSR positioned as an alternative to modern capitalism. So, they push austerity policies for governments everywhere. To sustain governments' austerity policies, capitalists and the rich lean on their ideological crutches to try to thwart political opposition. The mainstream ideology that works best as capitalism's crutch is blame the government."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mWCOVsUf%2FP9QkONyM%2Bx1zTLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kzOqnY0RX2%2BGW%2F2VwYwUjjLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Raising the Minimum Wage Is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mark Weisbrot, McClatchy/Tribune Services:</strong> "There is currently legislation before Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 an hour to $9.80, over three years. After that it would be indexed to inflation. Contrary to prevailing myths about who would benefit from a proposed increase in the minimum wage, 88 percent of the 28 million workers affected are not teenagers. As the Economic Policy Institute has shown, the majority are full-time workers, and on average they earn about half of their families' income. And 28 percent of the nation's 76 million children would have a parent who would benefit from the raise."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XT5zXGsoffMlshEVckqqqzLRaB45ia4n"><strong>IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service:</strong> "Contrary to the impression conveyed by most news media coverage, the report provides new evidence that Iran's enrichment strategy is aimed at enhancing its bargaining position in negotiations with the United States rather than amassing such a breakout capability."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oJT9VpcULbtCmXMC8Q613DLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5GAuY9eA3K7fdDXYlSxW5DLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | No Minimum Wage for the Mariana Islands?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.:</strong> "As the sun slowly sets over the Republican National Convention in Tampa, we settle back in the chairs that nice Mr. Eastwood just gave us and ponder some of the other oddities of the week. Like this item in the official GOP platform pointed out by Brad Plumer of The Washington Post: No minimum wage for the Mariana Islands. 'The Pacific territories should have flexibility to determine the minimum wage, which has seriously restricted progress in the private sector.'"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2FsqH%2Ft%2F4eZh44PR0syV4i4Ez6t9nTRA"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L5bVXBLADBO%2BlxIOHjjtJzLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell's Arctic Drilling</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Subhankar Banerjee, Climate StoryTellers:</strong> "It has been a painful day for me. Two pieces of news came in this morning: one about the massacre of an Yanomami settlement in the Amazon, and the other about Obama green lighting Shell's drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Both are about resource wars that lead to killing—humans and/or animals, fast or slow, one to get gold, and the other to get oil."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0fGntO8Z2Hu1NRFN5J0OKzLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Robert Reich | Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It's Inequality, Stupid</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog:</strong> "The most troubling economic trend facing America this Labor Day weekend is the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the very top – among a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people – and the steady decline of the great American middle class. Inequality in America is at record levels. The 400 richest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CAGhd%2FDDuvg3TYLfBvyC1zLRaB45ia4n"><strong>The Environmental Health Costs of a Petrochemical Future</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Sue Sturgis, Facing South:</strong> "A chemical industry trade group is touting a job-creating side benefit of fracking in North Carolina, claiming that building a plant to process natural gas into the petrochemical products used to make plastics and synthetic fabrics would create thousands of jobs for the state. But the experience of other places with similar facilities shows those jobs would come at a heavy cost to the health of the environment and local community."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PxryaNUEEUOx71Rjj3G6vDLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Andrew Lam, New America Media:</strong> "We are throwing away away up to 40% of our food, the research finds. That is estimated to be around $165 billion in wasted food each year. Even if we suffer from a long drawn-out recession, the average family of four winds up throwing out as much as $2,200 worth of food a year. Then there are the side effects: Garbage production in the United States has doubled in the last 30 years."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VsRdzKiRE7BP1eBs8qiDkDLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lA0kcRDvDvhqXQSff%2BxXhzLRaB45ia4n"><strong>Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Jay, The Real News Network:</strong> "On August 16 in South Africa, at the Lonmin mine in Marikana, police killed 34 miners who were on strike amongst hundreds in a confrontation with police. A postmortem exam, according to a local television station, revealed that most of the miners killed were shot in the back while they were fleeing police, not as they were, according to the police, about to surround and attack the police. Now there have been charges laid for these murders. Two hundred and seventy miners were charged in the deaths, and no policemen."</p>
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