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<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>Why the "Left" Establishment Can't Create Demands for the Occupy Movement</STRONG></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>Chris Hedges | Where Were You When They Crucified My Movement?</STRONG></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Toward a New Common School Movement</STRONG></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>Social Contract Unravels in Rich Countries as Widening Income Gap Favors Bankers, Executives</STRONG></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>MUST SEE: Dec. 12 official video! Shut Down Pacific Ports-þ</STRONG></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3><STRONG>The Rev. Madison Shockley on OWS and the Church</STRONG></FONT></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>How Class Works - 2012 conference call for proposals - deadline Dec 19þ</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Unions Take on 'Better Buildings Challenge'þ</FONT></H2></LI>
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<FONT size=3><STRONG>LA and Union Hacks offer school Workers More Chances to Design their<BR>own Oppression</STRONG></FONT><BR></LI>
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<FONT size=3><STRONG>SEIU Joins NEA and AFT to Surround, Deflect, Demoralize and Destroy<BR>any Left OWS Actions</STRONG></FONT><BR></LI></OL>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Why the "Left" Establishment Can't Create Demands for the Occupy Movement<BR></FONT></STRONG>J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "Did you hear the big news? The 99 percent released nine demands! After months of hectoring, we finally know what the movement is after: it's all right there on a web site - 9 DEMANDS OF THE 99%. Four problems immediately spring to mind: Firstly, the whole '9 for 99' bit smacks a bit of Herman Cain. Secondly, this was not endorsed by Occupy Wall Street." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EefZbMEdPYjRSP6jH3OIjGu%2B3/ELdN6X" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Chris Hedges | Where Were You When They Crucified My Movement?<BR></FONT></STRONG>Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity in the United States or signal its moral, social and political irrelevance." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oovpE/oDaXvVAui4VpQxvmu%2B3/ELdN6X" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Toward a New Common School Movement<BR></FONT></STRONG>Kenneth J. Saltman, Truthout: "The aspirations for a common educational experience, the commitment to nonsectarian schooling and the value of citizenry educated for public participation are collateral damage in the privatization trend." <BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=viRp12W8d8h1cPVOWjEKtWu%2B3/ELdN6X" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<STRONG><FONT size=3>Social Contract Unravels in Rich Countries as Widening Income Gap Favors Bankers, Executives<BR></FONT></STRONG>Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "In the OECD countries, the richest 10th of the population makes about nine times as much in average income as the poorest 10th, a significant increase from the gap in the 1980s."<BR><A href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5TdIhL4lXnNVUgRMuGkyFWu%2B3/ELdN6X" target=_blank><FONT color=#cc0000>Read the Article</FONT></A> <BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 100%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"><A title=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portofaztlan/message/2931;_ylc=X3oDMTJydmpmbzY4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE2MjUzNzMzBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNDMxOQRtc2dJZAMyOTMxBHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEzMjI5OTEzODc- href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portofaztlan/message/2931%3b_ylc%3dX3oDMTJydmpmbzY4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE2MjUzNzMzBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNDMxOQRtc2dJZAMyOTMxBHNlYwNkbXNnBHNsawN2bXNnBHN0aW1lAzEzMjI5OTEzODc-" target=_blank name=4>MUST SEE: Dec. 12 official video! Pleeeze forward! </A></H2>
<H3 style="FONT: 100% Arial">Posted by: "Ernesto Nevarez" <A title="mailto:portofaztlan@yahoo.com?Subject= Re: MUST SEE: Dec. 12 official video! Pleeeze forward!" href="mailto:portofaztlan@yahoo.com?Subject= Re%3A%20MUST%20SEE%3A%20%20Dec%2E%2012%20official%20video%21%20%20%20%20Pleeeze%20forward%21">portofaztlan@yahoo.com </A> <A title=http://profiles.yahoo.com/portofaztlan href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/portofaztlan" target=_blank>portofaztlan </A></H3>
<H4 style="FONT: 77% verdana">Sat Dec 3, 2011 9:10 pm (PST) </H4>
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<STRONG>The Rev. Madison Shockley on OWS and the Church</STRONG><BR>"<A href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yOKXS9ENhIjCCTMSqrbwnx9wmtepHlO6" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Jesus and the 99 Percent</FONT></A>" -- We in the Christian community are asking how the Occupy Wall Street movement’s message coheres with our theological precepts. Should the church be for or against OWS? <BR><BR clear=all><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=-2>PLEASE POST AND FORWARD WIDELY</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=-1>Dear Friends and Colleagues</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=-1>Because of final exam schedules at Stony Brook we will not be able to review proposals for the How Class Works - 2012 conference until Monday December 19, so we are extending the deadline for conference proposals for one week to afford all the extra time. The deadline for proposals is now December 19, 2011. See guidelines below.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=-1>Also, please note that the Center for Study of Working Class Life now has a Face Book page at the link below. </FONT><BR><BR><A href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Study-of-Working-Class-Life/265261583520258" target=_blank><SPAN></SPAN><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Study-of-Working-Class-Life<SPAN></SPAN>/265261583520258<BR><BR><FONT size=-1>If you are on Face Book, I invite you to visit the page and "like it."</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=-1>Mike</FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=-1>Michael Zweig</FONT><BR><FONT size=-1>Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life</FONT><BR></FONT></A><mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu></DIV>
<DIV align=center><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=+2><I><B>HOW CLASS WORKS - 2012</B></I></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=+1><B>CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS</B></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I><B>A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012</B></I></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the<I> How Class Works</I> -<I> 2012</I> Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 7-9, 2012. </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B> Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 19, 2011 according to the guidelines below.</B></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> For more information, visit our Web site at <</FONT><A target=_blank><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0068cf>www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Purpose and orientation:</B></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Conference themes:</B></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>The mosaic of class, race, and gender</B>. To explore how class shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of class.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Class, power, and social structure</B>. To explore the social content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Class and community</B>. To explore ways in which class operates outside the workplace in the communities where people of various classes live.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Class in a global economy</B>. To explore how class identity and class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor standards.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it matter?</B> To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and the working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class. <SPAN></SPAN> <B>Class, public policy, and electoral politics</B>. To explore how class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Class and culture</B>: To explore ways in which culture transmits and transforms class dynamics.</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Pedagogy of class.</B> To explore techniques and materials useful for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>How to submit proposals for<I> How Class Works - 2012</I> Conference</B></FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Proposals for presentations must include</B> the following information: a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants. Proposals for poster sessions are welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a poster session.<B>Proposals for sessions</B> are welcome. A single session proposal must include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to participate from each proposed session member.<B>Submit proposals</B> as an e-mail attachment to</FONT> <A href="mailto:michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><U>michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu</U></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0068cf> or as hard copy by mail to the<I> How Class Works</I> <I>- 2012</I> Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Timetable:</B> <B>Proposals must be received by December 19, 2012</B>. After review by the program committee, notifications will be mailed on January 17, 2012. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012. Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after February 20, 2012. Details and updates will be posted at</FONT> <A href="http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu/" target=_blank><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><U>http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu</U></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0068cf>.</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Conference coordinator:</B></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Michael Zweig</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Department of Economics</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">State University of New York Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">631.632.7536 </FONT><BR><A href="mailto:michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><U>michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu</U> <SPAN></SPAN> ##</FONT></A></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The AFL-CIO, AFT, a broad coalition of public-sector unions and the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department are major supporters of President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge to spur private-sector job creation with energy-saving upgrades. The labor movement has committed to work to invest $150 million in energy-efficient retrofit projects in the coming months.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><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=RnkD%2BIAh1HS2mo/iQBWWh7OP6f9wRQzu" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Who’s Your ‘Scrooge of the Year’?</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><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=1epuLHHB7CyJe3IOBRiA07OP6f9wRQzu" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Boeing Decision on 737 Spurred by Union, Industry, State Effort</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><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=ZBQo1nu%2BYJM5KjwHGRzw4LOP6f9wRQzu" target=_blank><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" face=Arial color=navy><STRONG>Women Will Wait Until 2056 to See Pay Equity, Unless We Act Now</STRONG></FONT></A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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The Los Angeles Unified School District and its<BR>teachers union have agreed to a new pact granting local schools more<BR>autonomy over hiring, curriculum and work conditions and virtually<BR>ending a 2-year-old policy that allowed charter operators and others<BR>to take over low-performing and new campuses. <BR>The agreement, tentative until union members vote on it, doesn't<BR>resolve key contract disputes, including whether teacher evaluations<BR>should include students' standardized test scores, a provision L.A.<BR>schools Supt. John Deasy is seeking. And teachers will continue to<BR>work under the terms of the larger labor contract that expired July 1.<BR> <BR> <A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1130-lausd-teachers-20111130,0,1644115.story" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1130-lausd-teachers-20111130,0,1644115.story</FONT></A><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR>
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New York City activists from OWS spent weeks<BR>planning the November 17 day of action alongside organizers from<BR>unions and community organizations, including the Service Employees<BR>International Union (SEIU). But when the Occupiers showed up for the<BR>day's culminating rally and march over the Brooklyn Bridge, they found<BR>a completely different event from the one they had planned. <BR>Instead of a series of platforms for coordinated "people's mics" that<BR>had been agreed to at planning meetings, there was a blaring sound<BR>system, an emcee and a series of people pre-selected to tell their<BR>stories. <BR>Instead of the plan for a "lightly marshaled event" in which<BR>protesters would be led to the pedestrian path of the bridge, but free<BR>to go wherever they wanted, there were hundreds of marshals working<BR>alongside riot cops to keep the streets clear. Like the sound system<BR>and the emcee, these marshals were provided by the SEIU. (Don't be too<BR>hard on the marshals, by the way-many of whom are hard-working union<BR>organizers who may well have hated their assignment that night.) <BR>According to one OWS activist, a lot of the people running the rally<BR>with their headsets and two-way radios tried hard to ignore the gazes<BR>of organizers with whom they had spent countless meeting hours not<BR>mentioning any of these plans for what actually took place. <BR>For most protesters, the SEIU takeover of the event probably only<BR>registered as a series of oddities. Why were people shouting "Mic<BR>check!" over a deafening sound system? Why were marshals chanting,<BR>"Whose streets? Our streets!" as they worked with police to keep us on<BR>the sidewalks? <BR>The effect was like a clueless dad trying to use his daughter's new<BR>slang. But the organizers from OWS knew what was taking place. WHY<BR>DID the SEIU take over the march? Let's back up first to consider the<BR>context.<BR> <BR>It's true, as the OWS website declared after the raid on Zuccotti Park<BR>a few days before, that "you can't evict an idea." But you can steal<BR>it. You can empty it of its content until all that's left is a slogan<BR>that used to mean something.<BR> <BR>For example: "We need a leader willing to fight for the needs of the<BR>99 percent." That's SEIU President Mary Kay Henry announcing the<BR>union's early endorsement of a presidential candidate in 2012: Barack<BR>Obama, the largest recipient of Wall Street campaign contributions in<BR>the history of the world. <BR><A href="http://www.zcommunications.org/co-opt-upy-wall-street-by-danny-lucia" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.zcommunications.org/co-opt-upy-wall-street-by-danny-lucia</FONT></A><BR>[20]<BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<BR><BR><BR>
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