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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Amplio debate en el tercer día del Curso Político-Sindical del ESNA</FONT></H2></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13572?akid=7934.16102.YvhF89&t=10" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Declining Labor Force Participation Leads to Sharp Drop in Unemployment</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">2 de diciembre de 2011, Tijuana México-El primer <A href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18862423" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>tema abordado estuvo relacionado con los procesos integracionistas en América, de manera especial el ALBA</FONT></A>, acuerdo éste que ha representado evidentes ventajas en las relaciones comerciales de los países que la integran.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Se destacó el nivel de criminalidad que hoy sacude la sociedad mexicana, que incluye a los dirigentes sindicales y sociales que se oponen a los dictados del gobierno.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">El último tema de la jornada, fue <A href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18866790" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>la presentación de cuanto se hace en Cuba</FONT></A>, en la actualización del modelo económico y el papel que le corresponde jugar almovimiento sindical.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Se destaco que a pesar del procero de disponibilidad que hoy se realiza de disponibilidad que hoy se realiza en el país, ningún trabajador quedará abandonado a su muerte, todo lo contrario, se buscan soluciones de empleo, tanto en el sector estatal, como en el sector no estatal. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Quedó definido que los cambios y transformaciones que hoy se hacen en Cuba, tienecomo único objetivo consolidar la Revolución Cubana y el Socialismo.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Como conclusión del tema <A href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18867517" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>se aprobó una declaración que insta al Gobierno de los EEUU a liberar los cinco héroes cubanos</FONT></A>, aún como intensificar las acciones solidarias en todo el mundo por la excarcelación de los antiterroristas cubanos.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Al analizar nuestra realidad política, social y económica no puede pasar inadvertido el hecho de que los cubanos Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino y René González han cumplido 13 años de detención en cárceles norteamericanas, con sentencias excesivas y prejuiciadas, por cargos que no fueron probados y carentes de legitimidad.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">El pueblo cubano clama por su libertad y regreso a su patria. La comunidad internacional ha expresado su solidaridad con la libertad de los cinco patriotas cubanos.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<LI class=ecxMsoNormal style="COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Reconocemos los logros sociales de la Revolución Cubana, su solidaridad para con los pueblos de nuestra América y su resistencia ante las agresiones imperialistas.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<LI class=ecxMsoNormal style="COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Repudiamos y rechazamos los cargos, procesos judiciales y sentencias que se han impuesto a los cinco patriotas cubanos, quienes han sostenido que sus actividades en suelo norteamericanos fueron para combatir los actos de terrorismo planeadas contra Cuba desde los Estados Unidos.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<LI class=ecxMsoNormal style="COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Continuaremos desarrollando y fortaleciendo las campañas de liberación de los 5 patriotas cubanos, en nuestros países, dando a conocer los detalles e injustas acciones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para impedir el regreso a su patria, aun cuando se cumplan las sentencias, como es el caso del patriota René González.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<LI class=ecxMsoNormal style="COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Responsabilizamos al gobierno de los Estados Unidos por cualquier acto que ponga en riesgo la seguridad y salud del patriota René González a quien se le priva de su familia y de poder regresar a su Patria, aún cumplida su injusta condena.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<LI class=ecxMsoNormal style="COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Reconocemos que el Sr. Barack Obama tiene el poder político y legal para actuar y mediante el indulto incondicional otorgar la completa libertad a los cinco patriotas cubanos. Que no existe impedimento legal para que ello se haga luego de 13 años de encarcelamiento.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"></SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<DIV class="SandboxScopeClass ExternalClass PlainTextMessageBody" id=mpf0_MsgContainer><PRE><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>David Montgomery, 1927-2011 <BR></FONT></STRONG> <BR>Jon Wiener <BR> <BR>December 2, 2011 - 5:30pm ET<BR> <BR><A href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/164954/david-montgomery-1927-2011" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.thenation.com/blog/164954/david-montgomery-1927-2011</FONT></A><BR> <BR>David Montgomery, one of the founders of the "New Labor<BR>History" in the US, who inspired a generation of<BR>activists and historians, died Dec. 2. He was 84. David<BR>lived a remarkable life: blacklisted as a union<BR>organizer in the 1950s, twenty years later he was named<BR>Farnam Professor of History at Yale. Even as Farnam<BR>Professor he remained a deeply political animal,<BR>working with local labor activists, black and white, in<BR>New Haven and elsewhere.<BR> <BR>I'll never forget David's story about how he became an<BR>academic. A communist labor organizer in the darkest<BR>days of McCarthyism, he spent "every single day through<BR>the 1950s" in factories - working primarily with the<BR>machinists' union in St. Paul from 1951 to 1960. He<BR>started at Minneapolis Honeywell; the FBI got him<BR>fired. But, as he explained in a wonderful 1981<BR>interview for the Radical History Review with Mark<BR>Naison and Paul Buhle, in order to get rid of him the<BR>company had to close the entire division -- because of<BR>the workers' sense that "an injury to one was an injury<BR>to all."<BR> <BR>He moved to smaller shops, always organizing, and<BR>always the FBI followed him and got him fired.<BR>"Finally," he told me, "the only job I could get was in<BR>a shop with only one other worker. I organized that guy<BR>into the union - and the FBI didn't get me fired."<BR> <BR>At this point, he said, "I realized they had me beat,<BR>so I quit and became a historian."<BR> <BR>He enrolled in grad school at the University of<BR>Minnesota and got a PhD in 1962. The next year he got a<BR>job as an assistant professor at the University of<BR>Pittsburgh. In 1967 Knopf published his book Beyond<BR>Equality, a pathbreaking study of the labor movement in<BR>the era of Reconstruction. Where historians focused on<BR>Reconstruction as a time when the North imposed its<BR>will on the white South, Montgomery showed how workers<BR>raised issues of economic power and economic justice in<BR>the North. Class conflict in the North, he concluded,<BR>"was the submerged shoal on which Radical dreams<BR>foundered."<BR> <BR>I've taught Montgomery's book 1987 book Fall of the<BR>House of Labor many times, and it remains a rich and<BR>compelling work. While most of us preferred to focus on<BR>the glory days of the labor movement in the 1930s and<BR>1940s, David looked long and hard at the defeat of the<BR>labor movement between the 1890s and the 1920s. He<BR>started here with a vivid picture of the variety of<BR>workplace experiences in America at the turn of the<BR>century, from unskilled workers on the docks to the<BR>elite iron makers; he showed how these diverse groups<BR>united to form the socialist party of 1912, which won a<BR>higher proportion of the presidential vote (for Eugene<BR>Debs) than any left-wing party before or since; and he<BR>asked why this immense and powerful organization did<BR>not survive the repression of the Red Scare and return<BR>to life in the 1920s.<BR> <BR>David was always an organizer for labor and civil<BR>rights groups. When Yale's clerical workers went on<BR>strike in 1984 for union recognition, "he was the<BR>inspirational leader for faculty supporting locals<BR>34/35 before, during, and after the strike," says<BR>Jean-Christophe Agnew of the Yale history department. <BR>"David's firmness about solidarity and the honoring of<BR>picket-lines emboldened many faltering colleagues,<BR>especially the more vulnerable junior faculty. He was<BR>a rock."<BR> <BR>In his Radical History Review interview, published in<BR>the Pantheon book Visions of History by MARHO, the<BR>Radical Historians' Organization, Naison and Buhle<BR>asked him about his days in the Communist Party. The<BR>good thing about the CP, he said, even in the 1950s,<BR>was that "more than any other organization of the time,<BR>it was possible to link Marxist analysis to effective<BR>daily action." And the CP was always working to unite<BR>black and white workers. The bad thing about the CP, he<BR>said, was that the intellectual life of the Party was<BR>"stifling"; the creative work done by communist writers<BR>always came after they left the Party.<BR> <BR>He quit in 1957, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary -<BR>but mostly because at the point "the Party had become<BR>virtually irrelevant to the workers of America."<BR>Minnesota at the time had a non-communist labor<BR>movement and a peace and civil rights movement, and <BR>"there I felt at home and could act without breaking<BR>stride."<BR> <BR>David Montgomery concluded his Radical History Review<BR>interview, "In this country, where the talents needed<BR>to run a humane society are all around us, what we need<BR>is not a single party but many self-activated centers<BR>of popular struggle and a variety of political<BR>initiatives. 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<H4>Nov. 30 Roundup: U.S. in Solidarity with U.K. to Save Pensions</H4>
<P>Like their U.S. counterparts, British officials want to slash public worker pensions to cut public deficits — even though, like Social Security in the U.S., British pension funds are financially sound. On Nov. 30, two million British workers walked out on strike in the United Kingdom, and in the U.S., the National Nurses United held rallies in six cities to show solidarity. Below are reports on the day's actions.<BR>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(178,34,34)"><STRONG>INSIDE THIS ISSUE:</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN><BR>
<STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">1. </SPAN><A href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#1"><FONT color=#0068cf>Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions “Across the Pond” from 2 million striking British workers</FONT></A></STRONG><BR>
<STRONG>2. <A href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#2"><FONT color=#0068cf>See and Share the U.S. Solidarity Roundup Video and a Flickr Photo Slideshow</FONT></A></STRONG><BR>
<STRONG>3. <A href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#3"><FONT color=#0068cf>Read Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011</FONT></A></STRONG><BR>
<STRONG>4. <A href="http://bl155w.blu155.mail.live.com/mail/#4"><FONT color=#0068cf>This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation</FONT></A></STRONG><BR>
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<A title="Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions " href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd65/342119443/VEsE/" target=_blank></A><A target=_blank name=1></A><STRONG>1. </STRONG><A title="Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions " href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd65/342119443/VEsF/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>Nurses Lead Solidarity Actions “Across the Pond” from 2 million striking British workers</FONT></STRONG></A><BR>
As more than 2 million nurses, teachers, paramedics and other workers held the largest strike in over three decades across Great Britain, National Nurses United, joined by other union members, held energetic support rallies in six U.S. cities to show solidarity with their embattled British counterparts. —<EM>NNU Blog</EM>, 11/30/11<BR>
<IMG height=333 alt="LA Rally" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6433447277_e7a01106a1.jpg" width=500><BR>Los Angeles Rally - <A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd62/342119443/VEsC/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>See and share more photos on our Flickr site.</FONT></A><BR>
<A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd63/342119443/VEsD/" target=_blank></A><A target=_blank name=2></A><STRONG>2. </STRONG><A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd63/342119443/VEsA/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>See and Share the U.S. Solidarity Roundup Video</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG> and a <A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd60/342119443/VEsB/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Flickr Photo Slideshow</FONT></A></STRONG><BR>
Take a look at the NNU <A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd63/342119443/VEsO/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>roundup video</FONT></A> from U.S.-U.K. solidarity events in six cities on Nov. 30. Then click the SHARE button under the video to post it on your Facebook or Twitter pages. Please also see <A href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd60/342119443/VEsP/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>photos of U.S. rallies</FONT></A> outside the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, DC, and consulates in Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Again just click on the SHARE buttons!<BR>
<A title="Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011" href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd61/342119443/VEsHBQ/" target=_blank></A><A target=_blank name=3></A><STRONG>3. </STRONG><A title="Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011" href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd61/342119443/VEsHBA/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>Read Solidarity Messages from the U.S. to the U.K. - Nov. 30, 2011</FONT></STRONG></A><BR>
"I stand with you in spirit. I am unable to attend a rally. As a Registered Nurse for the past 43 years, and as a Human Being on this planet, we all deserve respect. I myself face living in poverty at retirement. Can't we all support each other? I think we can. Keep up the fight!" Read some of the comments from U.S. nurses and allies posted to U.K. nurses and public workers. —<EM>NNU Blog</EM>, 11/30/11<BR>
<A title="This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation" href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd7e/342119443/VEsHBw/" target=_blank></A><A target=_blank name=4></A><STRONG>4. </STRONG><A title="This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation" href="http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/m/6c0b09ce/ac40fff/7159e059/1685bd7e/342119443/VEsHBg/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>This strike could start to turn the tide of a generation</FONT></STRONG></A><BR>
United Kingdom--It's not just the scale of the strike, though, but its breadth, from head teachers to school cleaners in every part of the country, that has set it apart. Most of those taking action were women, and the majority had never been on strike before. This has been the "big society" in action, but not as Cameron meant it. —<EM>The Guardian (UK)</EM>, 12/01/11<BR>
<STRONG>Thanks for your continued support,</STRONG><BR>
<STRONG><EM><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Jean Ross, Karen Higgins, and Deborah Burger</SPAN></EM></STRONG><BR>Registered Nurses and NNU Co-Presidents<BR>
<STRONG>National Nurses United</STRONG><BR>8630 Fenton Street, Suite 1100<BR>Silver Spring, MD 20910<BR>www.NationalNursesUnited.org<BR>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The nation’s unemployment rate in November fell to 8.6 percent, down from October’s 9 percent, and the economy added 120,000 jobs last month. But this morning’s figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also show that 315,000 workers dropped out of the labor force.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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