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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Giving Thanks for Nursing and for Each Otherţ</FONT></H2></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Union Organizers Still Fired With Impunity</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>How the 99 Percent Won the Fight for Worker Rights</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Corporations Pushing Bill to Take Away Overtime From Computer and Web Workers</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13178?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=4" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Gingrich's Absurd Jobs "Plan": Replace Union Janitors with Child Laborers</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13182?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=8" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Occupy UC Davis: Massive Rally, Occupation Planned For Monday</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13185?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=11" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Occupy Oakland’s Pancho Stierle Released Pending Deportation Hearing</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Gingrich: Child Labor Laws 'Stupid'ţ</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>EMERGENCY CALLS to Save Collective Bargaining Rights for Postal Workersţ</FONT></H2></LI></OL>
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<P><A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09f3/ac40fff/71587d8b/1685bcc6/332789659/VEsE/" target=_blank><IMG style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px" height=43 alt="Gift a Nurse" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6104/6378345849_7cbee021d9_m.jpg" width=240></A><BR> <BR>As a nurse, I am thankful that I get to do work that matters. Nursing challenges our minds as much as it challenges us to be better human beings.<BR><BR>When I look back over my career, there are so many people who stand out. I remember my earliest mentors and the nurse I called right after my first real day on the job. I think of all the new grads I’ve met handling stress with confidence and determination. What would any of us do without colleagues whose vision and grace under pressure inspire us?<BR><BR>We all appreciate those nurses who inspire and motivate us, and now there’s a fun way to share that respect and gratitude.<BR> <BR>Last month I emailed you about the Friend a Nurse Facebook community, and how excited I was to have finally found a real online community of nurses, by and for nurses. Since then, the Friend a Nurse community has grown into one of the largest online communities of nurses on Facebook. This month Friend a Nurse launched a new app - Gift a Nurse.<BR><BR><A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09f3/ac40fff/71587d8b/1685bcc6/332789659/VEsF/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Gift a Nurse</FONT></A> is a way for us to show appreciation for fellow nurses by sending free online gifts to colleagues who inspire us. It is a fun way to thank and encourage one another.<BR><BR>Check out <A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09f3/ac40fff/71587d8b/1685bcc6/332789659/VEsC/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Gift a Nurse</FONT></A>. We need ways of showing our appreciation to nurses who go the extra mile, and I bet you have fun with it too.<BR> <BR>Thanks for all that you do,<BR>Deborah Burger<BR>NNU Co-President<BR>RNRN Member<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Union Organizers Still Fired With Impunity<BR></FONT></STRONG>David Bacon, Truthout: "Over the next month they collected union cards, and filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with 70 percent of the faculty signed up. Grace was chosen head of the union steering committee. That was when hell broke loose. The film school hired IRI Consultants, a union-busting firm from Michigan. With their advice, school managers set Grace up to be fired, and prepared a classic campaign of psychological warfare against its own faculty." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n7NnVusGKB0sPJePPkXnis/djz1gjTd2" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown<BR></FONT></STRONG>Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "The Guild and other observers strongly suspect that the 72 so-called Fusion Centers created by the Homeland Security Department around the country, and the many Joint Terror Task Forces operated by the FBI in conjunction with local police in many cities, are serving as coordination points for the increasingly systematic attacks on the Occupy Movement." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=na%2BNERpH1KsBK1GK3/zgqs/djz1gjTd2" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>How the 99 Percent Won the Fight for Worker Rights<BR></FONT></STRONG>Andy Kroll, TomDispatch: "Mentions of the phrase 'income inequality' in print publications, web stories, and broadcast transcripts spiked from 91 times a week in early September to nearly 500 in late October, according to the website Politico - an increase of nearly 450 percent. In the second week of October, according to ThinkProgress, the words most uttered on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News were 'jobs' (2,738), 'Wall Street' (2,387), and 'Occupy' (1,278). (References to 'debt' tumbled to 398.)" <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2pgfHcNwdRBpJE6w8b54Cs/djz1gjTd2" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Corporations Pushing Bill to Take Away Overtime From Computer and Web Workers<BR></FONT></STRONG>Adele Stan, AFL-CIO Now Blog: "Information technology companies are focused on cutting pay for the people who work for them. If their effort succeeds, however, it will suggest to every other industry that the time is now to gut FLSA for every covered private-sector worker." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XtfGs10swPHCMxMlQHWVNc/djz1gjTd2" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13178?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=4" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Gingrich's Absurd Jobs "Plan": Replace Union Janitors with Child Laborers</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13182?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=8" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Occupy UC Davis: Massive Rally, Occupation Planned For Monday</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13185?akid=7879.16102.9mnSX9&t=11" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Occupy Oakland’s Pancho Stierle Released Pending Deportation Hearing</FONT></A></DIV>
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<TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=MgH0s2WxaKT4vVjxa8SAOU1AVwCLfGGC" target=_blank><IMG title="Recall Walker" alt="Recall Walker" src="http://blog.aflcio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blogthumb3.jpg" border=0></A><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Some 30,000 people marched in Madison Saturday for a rally marking the first weekend of the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">(R)</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. Click <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=sEi9eNfMg7Wd%2BJFh48E54k1AVwCLfGGC" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>here</FONT></A> for the video.</SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says child labor laws are “stupid.” But wait, there’s more. He suggests that schools “get rid of unionized janitors” and hire low-income kids to clean the schools. He even says that age nine is the right time to get a job. </SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><IMG height=12 alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" width=16 border=0> <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=tVIacQu8FmDvEkJ5qdMw301AVwCLfGGC" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Dangerous Balanced Budget Amendment Fails in House</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><IMG height=12 alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" width=16 border=0> <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=jCLKY4kKDnfbZTBsfTfPlk1AVwCLfGGC" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Tell Democrats on Super Committee: Stand with the 99%</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><IMG height=12 alt="" src="https://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4001/c/18/images/blog_arrow-blt.gif" width=16 border=0> <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=yjwHbE1TW4xPxfo5hkbxjE1AVwCLfGGC" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Veteran of Mexico City Workers’ Occupation Shares Strategy with Occupy DC</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></P><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy>
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<P align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>URGENT:</STRONG></FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG> Please take one minute to make an emergency call to Congress. <BR></STRONG></FONT><BR>
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<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ws0xOyVz6yhp9%2BRMvkVu2cVYbF2YtPPl" target=_blank><STRONG>Tell your representative to VOTE NO on H.R. 2309.</STRONG></A></FONT></P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>
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<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>We just learned Tea Party politicians in Congress are mobilizing to </FONT><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>kill collective bargaining rights for postal workers and end mail delivery to your door.</FONT></STRONG><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>This is an extraordinary attack. Any day now this bill is headed for a vote, and that's why we need everyone to join in and make calls to their representatives.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=0XzXVtk3y/pya3K%2BxXcvrsVYbF2YtPPl" target=_blank><STRONG>Grab your phone NOW. It takes 60 seconds to make this urgent call.</STRONG></A></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Last month, anti-worker Republicans quietly pushed H.R. 2309 through Committee vote, mandating $3 billion in cuts to the U.S. Postal Service. The bill would close facilities, end door-to-door mailbox delivery service for 90 percent of American households and businesses, and lay off as many as 200,000 workers. Like the actions taken by extreme right-wing legislators in Wisconsin and Ohio,<STRONG> H.R. 2309 would also gut postal workers' collective bargaining rights. </STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>The bill is headed for a vote in the full House of Representatives any day now, and that's why it's critical Congress hears from you TODAY.</STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=iQt/UIoCGzHsqPcAOJuv1sVYbF2YtPPl" target=_blank><STRONG>The clock is ticking – please make your phone call now to stop H.R. 2309!</STRONG></A></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>We recognize that calls are not easy to make, but we consider this an emergency and need your voice to be heard. The stakes couldn't be higher. If enacted, H.R. 2309 would also:</FONT><BR>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>End Saturday mail delivery service,</STRONG> hurting small businesses, rural customers, the elderly, and those who rely on the mail for medicine delivery.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Radically downsize the Postal Service,</STRONG> destroying 200,000 jobs and threatening the centerpiece of a $1.3 trillion mailing industry that employs 7.5 million private-sector workers.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Force the closure of thousands of post offices,</STRONG> slowing mail service in many communities.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Fail to address the true cause of the Postal Service's financial woes</STRONG> – the 2006 Congressional mandate to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, a burden faced by no other government agency or firm.</FONT></LI></UL><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>No matter where you live, in the biggest city or the smallest town, the men and women of the U.S. Postal Service will deliver your mail six days a week. A Postal Service employee will come to your door whether you are young or old, rich or poor – whether your business is on Wall Street, Main Street, or in your garage. </FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Unfortunately, there are those in Washington who want to strip away our letter carriers' right to a voice at work – and their ability to serve us all. </STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>Tell Congress not to destroy your mail delivery or collective bargaining rights. <A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=4nvribxycFQ%2BBaIAN8JrwsVYbF2YtPPl" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Contact your representative and ask him or her to vote against H.R. 2309.</FONT></A></STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks for all that you do to stand up for workers' rights.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>--Liz, Hilary, Beth, Zoe, Michael, Bryan, and the American Rights at Work team</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><STRONG><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=ldwRntKcxV48irpuje7bMMVYbF2YtPPl" target=_blank>www.AmericanRightsatWork.org</A></STRONG></FONT><BR>
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