[Educationforall] spam con huevos, labor news, views and concerns, 11.25.11‏‏-I‏

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The Jobs Crisis: What Did Roosevelt Do That Obama Should?

We Should Really Be Focused on the 0.1%
AT&T merger looks iffy

Occupying Society: How the Movement Hashes Out Race, Class and Privilege in Real Time
NEWS: Celebrating Los Angeles' first unionized car wash!‏
2012 National Farmworker Conference, April 22-25, 2012, San Antonio, Texas 
Honoring the American Worker on Thanksgiving
Robert Scheer on Poverty and Thanksgiving
Juan Cole on Education and OWS
"How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War"

Occupy Homes: Will Taking the Fight to Foreclosed Homes Unleash More Police Violence?

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The Jobs Crisis: What Did Roosevelt Do That Obama Should?
Martin Bennett and Richard Walker, Truthout: "The original version of President Obama's increasingly embattled jobs plan aimed to provide a much-needed extension of unemployment benefits and a payroll tax cut for working Americans, but outlined only scarce measures to dent the catastrophic rate of unemployment. What we need today is a massive jobs program like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) launched by President Franklin Roosevelt." 
Read the Article 

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We Should Really Be Focused on the 0.1%
By David Atkins | Hullabaloo

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AT&T merger looks iffy
New York Times 
WASHINGTON – AT&T and T-Mobile USA appeared to edge closer to scrapping their proposed merger, saying Thursday that they had withdrawn their application to the Federal Communications Commission to join their cellular phone operations. Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile, and AT&T said in a joint statement that they still intended to pursue the $39 billion merger and would prepare for a federal antitrust lawsuit that is seeking to block the deal. - Read More

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Occupying Society: How the Movement Hashes Out Race, Class and Privilege in Real Time
When encampments are shut down, it's not just the physical turf that's lost; a social experiment in working out the issues that have divided people for centuries gets crimped. READ MORE
Latoya Peterson / 

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NEWS: Celebrating Los Angeles' first unionized car wash!

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:38:21 -0600 (CST)
From: The ACLU of Southern California <takeaction at aclu-sc.org>
Subject: The squeegee of justice

Celebrating Los Angeles' first unionized car wash
ACLU of Southern CA
Carwasheros' rights are human rights

Next time you need a clean car, go to Bonus Car 
Wash at 2800 Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica.

Los Angelenos may be the most auto-obsessed 
people on the planet (see Carmaggedon), but most 
of the time we turn a blind eye toward the people 
who actually clean our cars -- and their routinely terrible working conditions.

The 10,000 car wash workers, or carwasheros, 
working at more than five hundred car washes in 
Los Angeles are routinely paid less than minimum 
wage working in substandard conditions.

But last month, we helped win a labor rights 
victory: about 30 car wash workers announced a 
union contract with Bonus Car Wash in Santa 
Monica. With this agreement, Bonus workers gained 
a wage increase, health and safety protections, 
and grievance and arbitration procedures to 
resolve workplace problems. The contract also 
established rights that protect workers from 
being unfairly punished or dismissed.

The ACLU of Southern California has supported the 
CLEAN Carwash campaign's efforts since its 
inception in 2008. We've helped organize the car 
wash workers, aided the contract negotiation 
process, and rallied our full membership for support.

This Thanksgiving, we're grateful that Los 
Angeles is home to the only unionized car wash in 
the country. By next Thanksgiving, we hope to celebrate many more.

Elvia Meza
Director of Community Engagement
ACLU of Southern California

© American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California
1313 West Eighth St. · Los Angeles, CA 90017
www.aclu-sc.org · (213) 977-9500

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Those who lived in the shadows of communities, living and working under hazardous unsanitary conditions, while surviving on meager wages with poor access to education, welfare, and health care.

2012 National Farmworker Conference

April 22 – 25, 2012

Hyatt Regency on the River Walk
San Antonio, Texas

www.mafofarmworker.com
¡Si se Puede!
MAFO

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Honoring the American Worker on Thanksgiving
Read the Article at Esquire

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Robert Scheer on Poverty and Thanksgiving
"Thanks For What?" -- On this Thanksgiving we have been cheated of the bounty of the harvest as one in three Americans descends into poverty. 

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Juan Cole on Education and OWS
"How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War" -- University students, who face tuition hikes and state cuts to public education, find themselves victimized by the same neoliberal agenda that has created the current economic crisis, and which profoundly endangers democratic values. 

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Occupy Homes: Will Taking the Fight to Foreclosed Homes Unleash More Police Violence?
Some worry that camping on private property may invite more extreme police attacks. READ MORE 
By Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

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