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Propaganda in Schools

GOP Moves to Require Pee Tests and GEDs for Unemployed
PLEASE POST: Human rights crisis on our soil‏
REPORT: 3.3 Million Will Lose Unemployment Insurance Under House GOP’s Payroll Tax Bill

Worker-Owners of America, Unite!
Celebrate 100 years Anniversary of the Free Speech Fight‏
Labor Scholarship Now Available‏

97th Anniversary of SME (Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas‏

An important anniversary‏
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Helps ALEC Undercut Public Education

Grad Students, Fighting for Right to Unionize, Stage Emergency-Room Drama Outside NLRB Offices

No Strings, No Cuts: #ExtendUI Now!‏
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Propaganda in Schools
Scholastic, the educational publishing giant, has come under fire for including a story about Occupy Wall Street in its Scholastic News magazine, which is distributed to school kids in classrooms around the country. WorldNetDaily, the conservative online news outlet, ran a story this week suggesting that Scholastic was trying to indoctrinate innocent school kids with George Soros-style liberalism.
In a piece headlined "4th-graders Brainwashed with Occupy 'Propaganda," WND tells the story of a parent, identified only by his first name, who's outraged that his child came home from school with a copy of Scholastic News that included an article called, "What is Occupy Wall Street?" According to WND, "Edward," the parent, complained about the article to Scholastic, saying "I grew up in Soviet Union and seeing your propaganda about Occupy Wall Street brings back my memories." [READ MORE]
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GOP Moves to Require Pee Tests and GEDs for Unemployed
It's a difficult time to be unemployed in America. But congressional Republicans seem determined to make it even more difficult. [READ MORE]

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DESERTED: The Human Rights Crisis on Our Soil

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The remains of at least 6,000 migrants have been found in U.S. desert land since U.S.-Mexico border policies were implemented in the 1990s. Some groups estimate that for each set of remains recovered,…
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, <dana at breakthrough.tv> wrote:

There is a human rights crisis on our soil that no one is talking about. Please help get people talking by watching and sharing Breakthrough’s new video, “DESERTED: The Human Rights Crisis On Our Soil.” <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg> 

The remains of at least 6,000 migrants have been found on U.S. desert land since U.S.-Mexico border policies were implemented in the 1990s. Advocates and authorities attribute the escalating number of deaths not only to rising heat but also to ever-tightening border security that forces migrants into more remote and dangerous terrain. 

Some groups estimate that for each set of remains recovered, those of 10 more people are lost to the harsh desert elements. DESERTED includes chilling images of a morgue in Tucson, Arizona in which row after row of body bags contain human remains that may never be identified, human beings whose loved ones may never know what happened to them. 

As we approach the United Nations’ International Migrants Day — observed annually on December 18 to recognize the contributions and rights of migrants worldwide — DESERTED calls on viewers to recognize these deaths as a humanitarian emergency and human rights crisis that transcends the particulars of the immigration debate.

Please watch and share this video as widely as possible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg). Then take action to end this human rights crisis by visiting No More Deaths (www.nomoredeaths.org) and Coalición de Derechos Humanos (www.derechoshumanosaz.net). (Other groups featured in the video: DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving); VAMOS Unidos.) 

Post on your blogs, share with friends, and tweet! 

Sample tweet: Watch new @breakthrough video "DESERTED" the #humanrights crisis on U.S. soil that no one’s talking about. #immigration #Arizona #border

Thank you. 

Dana

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Dana Variano | MultiMedia Associate
Breakthrough

4 West 37th Street | 4th Floor | New York, NY 10018 | USA 
t +1.212.868.6500
Twitter @breakthrough | www.breakthrough.tv

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REPORT: 3.3 Million Will Lose Unemployment Insurance Under House GOP’s Payroll Tax Bill
By Travis Waldron | Think Progress 

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Worker-Owners of America, Unite!
By GAR ALPEROVITZ 
We may be moving toward a hybrid system somewhere between capitalism and socialism, without anyone even noticing.

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From: Lorena Gonzalez <lgonzalez at unionyes.org> 
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:30:26 +0000
To: Lorena Gonzalez<lgonzalez at unionyes.org>
Subject: Celebrate 100 years Anniversary of the Free Speech Fight

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

In the beginning of the new year, we will mark the 100-year anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Movement and Labor’s critical role in establishing and protecting that 1st Amendment Right! We will kick off our celebration with a January 6th evening reception and photography exhibit at the Centro Cultural de la Raza.

In January, 1912 the San Diego’s City Council passed an ordinance which made speaking in public a crime in a 50-block area around E Street and 5th Avenue in Downtown San Diego.  This ban that was put into place, in part, to prevent the Industrial Workers of the World from recruiting members to their union.  Thousands of IWW “Wobblies” came to San Diego in protest, leading to police brutality, torture by vigilantes, and murder.  

The Labor Council has been working with the ACLU to commemorate this 100-year anniversary of the fights in San Diego to protect free speech – a fight that continues today.  A series of events, including an art exhibit and lecture series, are planned for January and February 2012, leading up to a major action on February 8, 2012 (save the date!), to mark the anniversary of the mass arrests.  

Attached, please find information about how your union or organization can help support these important activities as we remember those who struggled to protect our freedom of speech, and honor those who continue the fight.   Please consider supporting this event at whatever level you can, and contact Jerry Tomaszewicz (jt at unionyes.org) with any questions.  

Also, please check out our website at: http://www.aftguild.org/free_speech/index.html and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/214079238670849/

In Solidarity,
Lorena

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Lorena Gonzalez
Secretary-Treasurer / CEO, San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO
3737 Camino del Rio S. #403
San Diego, CA 92108

(619) 228-8101, ex 1

www.UnionYes.org

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Labor's Training and Community Development Alliance Scholarship Now Available
We are proud to announce a scholarship for high school seniors who are children of union members in good standing with their local union.
The first year scholarship will be $2,500 with continued scholarship assistance of an additional $1,000 per year for a maximum of three additional years if the student continues to meet scholarship standards.
The goal of the program is to assist students in their educational endeavors at a trade or technical school, community college, four-year university or college. The deadline for applying will be no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.
Please review the scholarship policy statement and application form here. 
The scholarship, offered by The San Diego Labor Education and Development Fund, is being awarded by Labor's Training and Community Development Alliance, better known as Labor's Alliance, a local 501c3 organization.

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Today marks 97 years since the founding of the Mexcan Union of Electrical Workers. For two years they have fought for their rights under the labor laws and their jobs since the government liquidated the public Luz y Fuerza. 

Today they are gathering at the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City to celebrate their anniversary and for a solution to the conflict. 

We stand in solidarity with SME on this day and every day until victory. For more information go to their website. 

http://www.sme1914.org/2011/12/13/boletin-informativo-97-aniversario-del-sme/

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“AFSCME has always been an organization that stands up and fights for the rights of people that tend to be left behind.” 

- LaTonya Johnson, Licensed Child Care Provider 
Council 48, Local 502
Dear AFSCME Sisters and Brothers,

Throughout our 75 years, AFSCME has always fought for a better future for public service workers and America’s working families. It was true in 1932 in Madison, WI when we started, continued when we received our official charter from the American Federation of Labor just a few years later in 1936, and is just as true today – as we continue the fight of our lives in Wisconsin and across the entire country. 

And that’s why, today, we’re proud to share AFSCME’s storied history with you on our new 75th Anniversary website. 

It tells the story of the women and men of AFSCME who have always made up the heart and soul of our union. Please take a few minutes to explore it today. 

The new website features: 

A 75th Anniversary video featuring AFSCME leaders from past and present, which shows with historic photos how your union has always been there: from the fight for workers' rights, civil rights, women’s and LGBT rights to the day-in and day-out fight for strong public services and the middle class that continues today. Watch it today.
Our online exhibit chronicles AFSCME’s 75 years of leadership in the American labor movement. You can flip through each page to learn how we have always fought for “the people who tend to be left behind,” as LaTonya says. Click here learn more.Please take a moment to celebrate our union’s 75th Anniversary today, and be sure to sign our pledge: “I Stand With AFSCME. I Support public services because they strengthen America and the middle class.” 

Thanks for everything you do.

In solidarity,

GERALD W. McENTEE 
President

LEE A. SAUNDERS 
Secretary-Treasurer

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Helps ALEC Undercut Public Education
Read the Article at BuzzFlash

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Grad Students, Fighting for Right to Unionize, Stage Emergency-Room Drama Outside NLRB Offices
By Jay Sosa | Academe Blog
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Time is running out for more than 2 million people who can’t find work and are relying on emergency unemployment benefits. They’ll lose their lifeline in January if Congress fails to act. 

We need your help to spread the word.

Watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word here.

Use Twitter? Click here.

Congress is in town for a little more than a week. 

Time is running out for more than 2 million Americans who can’t find work and are relying on emergency unemployment coverage. They’ll lose their lifeline in January if Congress fails to act. And without action in 2012, that number will rise to at least 6 million.*

That’s why we're asking you to act today to share stories of unemployed workers and help us make the case for extending unemployment without cuts or pre-conditions that hurt the 99%.

Go to the AFL-CIO Unemployment Stories website, find stories from unemployed workers and share them.

If you use Twitter, click here.

Members of Congress keep getting confronted with the stories of unemployed workers, and it's making a difference. The question is no longer whether our leaders will do anything for America's jobless—it looks like they'll do something. But we're not out of the woods yet. Obstructionists continue to play partisan games with unemployment benefits.

Watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word here.

Use Twitter? Click here.

Last Thursday—from Wall Street to Main Street to Capitol Hill—we took action for America’s jobless workers. Our most massive mobilization was in Washington, D.C., where more than 2,000 jobless workers and clergy gathered for a prayer vigil on Capitol Hill. 

We're keeping that pressure up, pushing out stories to members of Congress and forcing them to pay attention. Our pressure is working—some in Congress who weren't even talking about extending unemployment before now are claiming they are willing to consider extending unemployment coverage, but only with massive cuts as a “compromise.” 

But we need to push for a clean, full extension of jobless aid, because it's the right thing to do. As Christine Owens of the National Employment Law Project says, "Long-term unemployed workers are not lazy slackers who choose an unemployment check over a paycheck. They are millions of men and women—family, friends and neighbors, many of whom have worked for years—whose lives and livelihoods have been chewed up and spit out by the nation’s worst economy in 80 years. With the number of officially unemployed job seekers still outnumbering job openings by more than four-to-one, it’s no wonder so many long-term unemployed workers cannot find work: there simply are not enough jobs."

Watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word here. Use Twitter? Click here.

America’s communities are relying on every penny of benefits—and every penny in cuts shrinks the economy and destroys jobs. 

We need obstructionists in Congress to be confronted with these stories and know it's unacceptable to cut benefits for jobless workers, cut pay for public employees, cut preventive health services, reduce premium assistance for low- and middle-income individuals buying health insurance, and raise premiums for many Medicare beneficiaries. It's time to stop picking on the 99% and make the 1% pay its fair share.

Click here to watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word. And if you use Twitter, click here.

Thanks for all the work you do.

In Solidarity,

Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO

* Based on cut-off estimates contained in the National Employment Law Project's briefing paper, "Hanging On By a Thread."

To find out more about the AFL-CIO, please visit our website at www.aflcio.org.
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