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"El sueño americano es una pesadilla": Mujeres migrantes no recomiendan ir a‏ Komen in trouble, 'employee morale is in the toilet'  Kris Kobach and the Connection Between Restrictive Voting and Immigration Laws  Does GOP Budget Screw Over the Poor Based on Ideology or Cynical Politics? And Does It Matter?  El Salvador: jueves 29 de marzo, Asiste a la conferencia: “Crisis y lucha de clases en Europa – Consecuencias para América Latina” con Jorge Martin, dirigente‏Join Verizon Workers in National Day of Action‏ Tell your Rep. to vote NO on the Ryan budget‏Savvy Supreme Court Brief Sticks it to Arizona, Says Harsh Immigration Law is Confrontational, Not Cooperative  PRISON LABOR‏Education, Jobs, and Wages‏  
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http://mujeresenchiapas.blogspot.comDate: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:47:17 -0700
From: movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio at yahoo.com
Subject: Mujeres inmigrantes no recomiendan ir a Estados Unidos
To: movementforjusticeinelbarrio at yahoo.com

Mujeres inmigrantes no recomiendan ir a Estados Unidos

*El sueño americano es una pesadilla de racismo y pobreza.

Publicado en Mujeres en Chiapas - Periodismo de derechos humanos en Chiapas 

http://mujeresenchiapas.blogspot.com/2012/03/mujeres-inmigrantes-no-recomiendan-ir.html?m=1

martes, 20 de marzo de 2012

Patricia Chandomí.- Inmigrantes mexicanas agrupadas en la organización Movimiento Por Justicia del Barrio en Nueva York aseguraron que el sueño americano es un espejismo, “es una pesadilla llena de racismo, pobreza y discriminacion. Es otra realidad. Es una mala forma de vivir en este país donde las oportunidades solo son para los de arriba, los ricos y los políticos” sostuvieron.

“Nosotras no recomendamos venir a este país (Estados Unidos) hay mucha discriminación por racismo, xenofobia y machismo” señalaron en una entrevista colectiva las mujeres del Movimiento, una organización que iniciaron 15 mujeres inmigrantes mexicanas, en su mayoría madres solteras.

Su lucha comenzó en el 2004 con una protesta contra el magnate Steve Kessner, que las quería desalojar de 4 edificios, y hoy suman más de 700 integrantes de este movimiento, que ha ampliado su lucha en aquel país, contra el racismo, los derechos a la diversidad sexual y de las personas pobres.

La organización hoy tiene presencia en 68 edificios, luchan para que los empresarios dueños de los edificios no los desalojen, y a su vez, han incluido otras demandas como las mencionadas.

Para las integrantes del Movimiento existe dos Nueva York una de los y las de abajo y otra de los de arriba, el de la Gran Manzana, la Capital del Mundo, el Distrito Financiero, el Centro de Tratados Mundiales.

“Pero tambien existe otra Nueva York. Existe el Nueva York de l at s de abajo. Es decir, los jodid at s que trabajamos para poder mal vivir en este rincon del mundo. Aqui en Nueva York, como en cualquier otra ciudad de los Estados Unidos o en cualquier otra ciudad en cualquier otro pais del mundo, hay otra realidad. La realidad de los jodid at s. Pero aqui en El Barrio, tambien existe otra realidad de nosotras y nosotros, l at s de abajo que estamos unidos, organizad at s y luchando en contra del capitalismo y del mal gobierno en la otra Nueva York” explicaron.

Las integrantes dijeron que pese a las dificultades, en Nueva York aprendieron a hacerse una comunidad, “aprendimos que podemos ser una comunidad unida y apoyarnos de forma mutua y reconstruyendo lo que los capitalistas y el individualismo promueve en este país”.

“Nosotr at s pensamos que la unica forma que vamos a profundamente cambiar este mundo es uniéndonos tod at s l at s marginad at s como mujeres, homosexuales, lesbianas, transgeneros, pueblos indigenas, asiaticos, latin at s, negros y migrantes.

Por eso, este Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio compuesto de una comunidad de marginados tiene como prioridad colaborar con otras comunidades y organizaciones de marginados.

Cada año organizan un Encuentro Nueva York por la Humanidad y en Contra del Neoliberalismo, a estos Encuentros asisten varios y varias representantes de organizaciones que luchan contra el capitalismo en el mundo.
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Kris Kobach and the Connection Between Restrictive Voting and Immigration LawsBy Brentin Mock | ColorLines
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Does GOP Budget Screw Over the Poor Based on Ideology or Cynical Politics? And Does It Matter?By Ed Kilgore | Washington Monthly

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Publicado en Bloque Popular Juvenil (http://www.bloquepopularjuvenil.org)Inicio > Asiste a la conferencia: “Crisis y lucha de clases en Europa – Consecuencias para América Latina” con Jorge Martin, dirigente de la Corriente Marxista InternacionalAsiste a la conferencia: “Crisis y lucha de clases en Europa – Consecuencias para América Latina” con Jorge Martin, dirigente de la Corriente Marxista InternacionalComienza: 03/29/2012 09:00Termina: 03/29/2012 12:00El capitalismo está en una profunda crisis de la que no podrán salir con facilidad, el programa de la burguesía es atacar las conquistas de los trabajadores y nuestra clase no soporta más recortes. Por otro lado los distintos gobiernos hacen rescates multimillonarios para asegurar la ganancia de los banqueros y capitalistas, es decir que la deuda privada ahora se convierte en deuda de toda la población. El nivel de endeudamiento no tiene precedentes y  abre todo un periodo histórico de inestabilidad, ataques, revoluciones y contrarrevoluciones. 
La clase obrera en Europa y en EEUU ha iniciado a movilizarse, ejemplo de esto lo vemos con el llamado a huelga general de los trabajadores en Oakland, California, o las luchas revolucionarias de los obreros griegos, el movimiento de los indignados en España, las huelgas en Portugal y un largo etcétera. Esta crisis y estas luchas están teniendo importantes repercusiones en los países latinoamericanos. Es muy importante analizar el proceso de la lucha de clases a nivel mundial para sacar las lecciones en el combate que tenemos contra la burguesía en cada país dentro de la lucha por construir la federación socialista mundial.
Jorge Martín es un destacado marxista     Europeo con un amplio conocimiento de la lucha de clases en el viejo continente pero también de América Latina, ha escrito numerosos artículos sobre estos temas; es parte del comité de redacción de la web In Defence of Marxism (www.marxist.com/es [1]), editor de la revista América Socialista (revista panamericana de la Corriente Marxista Internacional) y dirigente de la campaña Manos Fuera de Venezuela.
Jorge Martín dará su ponencia en la histórica Universidad Nacional (UES) el próximo jueves 29 de marzo a partir de las 9:00 a.m. en el Cine Teatro Universitario. Creemos que el análisis marxista que el compañero defiende del actual proceso de lucha de clase es una herramienta muy valiosa para los dirigentes del movimiento obrero, estudiantil, comunitario y del FMLN, así como para cualquier joven o trabajador consiente que aspira a transformar esta sociedad. Te invitamos a que asistas.Estudiantil [2],Sindical [3],FMLN [4],Agenda Actividades BPJ [5]Bloque Popular JuvenilURL del envío: http://www.bloquepopularjuvenil.org/jorge-martin-el-salvadorEnlaces:
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March 21, 2012
In the Washington, D.C., area, 25,000 grocery store workers are fighting for a fair contract, even as the grocery chains recruit replacement workers.Tomorrow, you can join thousands of union members and community partners in a National Day of Action for Verizon workers. While Verizon continues to pay executives exorbitant salaries and rake in billions in profits, the company is shipping jobs overseas, demanding that workers pay thousands of dollars more for health care coverage with slashed benefits and even wants to cut benefits to workers hurt on the job.
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Dear AFSCME Sisters and Brothers: 

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) just doesn’t get it.

On Tuesday, Representative Ryan – Chairman of the House Budget Committee – unveiled the GOP budget plan, and simply put, it’s a disaster for working families and a boondoggle for insurance companies and the wealthiest 1 percent:

Ryan's budget would end Medicare as we know it.Ryan's budget would actually increase tax breaks for the wealthiest 1 percent.Click here to tell your representative to vote against the Ryan budget today.

Ryan's budget is out of line with what the majority of Americans want. Americans want to know that Medicare will be there for them and their kids when they need it. Ryan's Medicare scheme replaces it with a voucher to be paid to insurance companies – and would increase costs to seniors substantially.

Americans are sick and tired of ever-expanding tax breaks and subsidies for the 1 percent – the wealthiest among us, and powerful corporations. The Ryan budget? It does nothing to make sure that the 1 percent pay their fair share, and worse yet, it actually increases their tax breaks.

Ryan's budget is out of touch and will make even deeper cuts to the services that AFSCME members provide – jeopardizing education, health, law enforcement, transportation and other services that so many Americans rely on. 

As states across the country struggle to do more with less, it would drastically reduce Medicaid payments to states – forcing deep cuts in nursing home care and in-home supportive services for seniors and those with disabilities. 

Tell your member of Congress to vote NO on the Ryan budget.

Not only would it do all of the above, the Ryan budget would also eliminate the Affordable Care Act, which has already allowed 2.5 million adult children to remain on their parent’s health plan, and provided relief to 3.6 million seniors who cannot afford their high prescription drug costs.

Whenever we talk about the budget, we're talking about priorities. We're talking about the America that we want to live in. That's why it's so important that you take a moment right now to let your member of Congress know that you are against the Ryan budget. Click here to take action. 

In solidarity, GERALD W. McENTEE President LEE A. SAUNDERS Secretary-Treasurer  
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Savvy Supreme Court Brief Sticks it to Arizona, Says Harsh Immigration Law is Confrontational, Not CooperativeBy Ben Winograd | Immigration Impact

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Education, Jobs, and Wages
By Jack METZGAR
TalkACK union
March 20, 2012
http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/education-jobs-and-wages/#more-14396

Most people are surprised when I tell them that only
about 30% of Americans over the age of 25 have
bachelor's degrees.

This is especially true of professional middle-class
folks who went to high schools where almost everybody
went to college immediately after graduation and whose
friends now are almost all college graduates.

But it's also true of people from working-class and poor
backgrounds, who seem to think they are "abnormal" or
"below average" because they haven't graduated from
college. They're not. They are, in fact, the ones who
are "typical."

Most people are surprised when I tell them
that only about 30% of Americans over the age of 25
have bachelor's degrees. This is especially true of
professional middle-class folks who went to high
schools where almost everybody went to college
immediately after graduation and whose friends now are
almost all college graduates.

But it's also true of people from working-class and
poor backgrounds, who seem to think they are "abnormal"
or "below average" because they haven't graduated from
college. They're not. They are, in fact, the ones who
are "typical."

It's even more surprising, however, when the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that in 2010 only 20% of
jobs required a bachelor's degree, whereas 26% of jobs
did not even require a high school diploma, and another
43% required only a high school diploma or equivalent.

And according to the BLS, this isn't going to change
much by 2020, since the overwhelming majority of jobs
by then will still require only a high school diploma
or less. What's more, nearly 3/4ths of "job openings
due to growth and replacement needs" over the next 10
years will pay a median wage of less than $35,000 a
year, with nearly 30% paying a median of about $20,000
a year (in 2010 dollars). Put these two sets of numbers
together, and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
Americans are over educated for the jobs that we have
and are going to have. It's hard to imagine why
anybody would call us "a knowledge economy."

It's also hard to see how "in the 21st century, the best
anti-poverty program around is a first-class
education," as President Obama famously said in his
2010 State of the Union Address.

I don't want to say that these statistics on education
and jobs expose widely held "myths," because that word
suggests things that are utterly and completely false.

It's much more complicated than that. Rather, I'd say
that broadly speaking, about one-third of Americans live
in one world, while another two-thirds live in a rather
different one, but that public discourse - in the
mainstream media, for sure, but even more so in elite
media and the academy - is conducted by the one-third
who are college-educated and have jobs with a fair
amount of autonomy and/or a decent income.

This one-third mistakenly takes our world to be 
typical - or said another way, the educated middle
class tends to mistake our part of America for the whole.
And the larger working-class and poor part does not
have enough power or voice to consistently make their
presence known to us. That means we are subject to certain
uncorrected illusions - mistaking half-truths and
quarter-truths for the whole truth -- even though we're
the ones who collect and analyze the data.

There is, for example, a large and growing "knowledge
economy" in the U.S., requiring more than 6 million
people with master's or doctoral degrees now, with
another 1.3 million needed by 2020. But even with this
faster-than-average growth rate, it will be less than
5% of the overall economy.

Even if we expand the definition to include jobs
requiring any education beyond high school, the
"knowledge economy" - now and a decade from now -will
still represent less than one-third of all available jobs.
This is a lot of jobs, about 44 million now, and if you
work and live in this one-third, especially in its
upper reaches, more education can seem like the answer
to everything.

Indeed, according to the BLS, having a bachelor's
degree should yield a person nearly $30,000 a year more
in wages than a high school graduate. But most of the
American economy is not like this.

The BLS's three
largest occupational categories by themselves accounted
for more than one-third of the workforce in 2010 (49
million jobs), and they will make an outsized
contribution to the new jobs projected for 2020.

They are:
--Office and administrative support occupations
(median wage of $30,710)
--Sales and related occupations ($24,370)
--Food preparation and serving occupations
($18,770)
Other occupations projected to provide the
largest number of new jobs in the next decade include
child care workers ($19,300), personal care aides
($19,640), home health aides ($20,560), janitors and
cleaners ($22,210), teacher assistants ($23,220),
non-construction laborers ($23,460), security guards
($23,920), and construction laborers ($29,280).

There are still construction, mining, production, and
transportation and material-moving jobs that provide
annual incomes north of $40,000 (especially if they are
union). But even though all these occupations are
projected to grow, some by above-average rates, in 2020
there will be fewer of them than there were in 2006
before the Great Recession, nearly 6 million fewer
according to the BLS.

The BLS produces its
job-projection report every two years, and as I pointed
out two years ago, it is consistently misreported in
the mainstream media or (as this year) ignored all
together. This is partly because the just-the-facts
BLS reporting style does not highlight the continuing
growth of the low-wage economy.

But read it carefully - or just look at all the tables
with an open mind - and I don't think you can avoid two
general conclusions: As an individual, get a bachelor's
degree
or you are doomed to work hard for a wage that will not
provide a decent standard of living for a family. You
may not get such a wage even with a bachelor's degree,
but without it your chances are slim and getting
slimmer.

But as a society, "the best anti-poverty program around"
cannot possibly be "a first-class education" when more
than 2/3rds of our jobs require nothing like that.

The best anti-poverty program around is higher wages
for the jobs we actually have and will have. If we were
serious about eliminating poverty or restoring the
credibility of the American Dream or simply respecting
lifetimes of hard work, we would be debating how to raise
wages directly - how to make it easier for workers to
organize themselves into unions, how to get the federal
minimum wage higher and on a steady inflation-adjusted
escalator, whether to require some kind of workers
council for all employers, and then legally require
that the benefits of productivity growth be shared
with workers.

We'd also be discussing how to use a more steeply
progressive system of taxation to build a social wage
that makes the basics of life - food, housing, mass
transit, child care, education, and health care - cheaper
for everyone, but most crucially for lower wage workers.
Those of us who have benefitted, financially and
otherwise, from getting good educations should tell our
stories and try to inspire others with the value of
education in all its forms.

But we need to stop fostering illusions that good
educations can ever substitute for the organized
collective action - in politics, in the workplace,
and in the streets - that will be required to reverse
the increasingly miserable the future.

Jack Metzgar is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at
Roosevelt University in Chicago.

This post originally appeared on Working Class Perspectives,
the blog of the Center for Working Class Studies.

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