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<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Thursday: Vigil and Silent March for the Jobless</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=3><STRONG>Unions and Immigrants and the Occupy Movement</STRONG></FONT></DIV></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Port Action needs for December 12</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>You've Got to See This</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>CONTINUAN AMENAZAS CONTRA SINALTRAINAL...Rv: O se largan o se mueren</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Read These Powerful Stories</FONT></H2></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Latin America: a start point</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT'S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Stand For Freedom - Defend the Right to Vote: December 10th March in NYC</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H2 class=ReadMsgSubject><FONT size=3>Let's demand better in 2012</FONT></H2></LI>
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<H3 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/us/more-public-sector-workers-are-retiring-sooner.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2" target=_blank><FONT size=3>Many Workers in Public Sector Retiring Sooner</FONT></A></H3></H2></LI>
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<H3 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/business/global/wal-mart-hears-a-familiar-complaint-in-india.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25" target=_blank><FONT size=3>Wal-Mart Debate Rages in India</FONT></A></H3></H3></H2></LI></OL>
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<DIV><B>From: </B>The San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council <info@unionyes.org> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Date: </B>Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:11:02 -0500 (EST)</DIV>
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<H3 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">National Day of Mobilization for the Unemployed and for Jobs<BR></SPAN></H3>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Unless Congress acts now, lifeline aid for nearly 2 million workers who have lost jobs will be cut off December 31 as the extended unemployment insurance benefits expire. Not only will this have devastating impacts on already struggling families, but also on our economy, which grows by $2 for every dollar spent on unemployment insurance. </SPAN><BR>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Join us Thursday at 5 p.m. for a candlelight vigil and silent march to the Federal Building to urge Congress to extend Unemployment Insurance now</SPAN>.</B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Candlelight Vigil and Silent March</SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thursday, December 6 at 5:00 p.m.</SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Civic Center Plaza<BR></SPAN><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=6ahzCbOu/CEkXCL5jLAaUnNVT5RDgyV6" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">B St. & 3rd Ave</SPAN></A></H2>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>FROM PLANTON TO OCCUPY</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Unions and Immigrants and the Occupy Movement</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>By David Bacon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.truth-out.org/unions-and-immigrants-join-occupy-movements/1323183717">http://www.truth-out.org/unions-and-immigrants-join-occupy-movements<SPAN></SPAN>/1323183717</A> <FONT color=#000000><BR><BR>OAKLAND, CA (12/5/11) -- When Occupy Seattle called its tent camp "Planton Seattle," camp organizers were laying a local claim to a set of tactics used for decades by social movements in Mexico, Central America and the Philippines. And when immigrant janitors marched down to the detention center in San Diego and called their effort Occupy ICE (the initials of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency responsible for mass deportations), people from countries with that planton tradition were connecting it to the Occupy movement here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR> This shared culture and history offer new possibilities to the Occupy movement for survival and growth at a time when the Federal law enforcement establishment, in cooperation with local police departments and municipal governments, has uprooted many tent encampments. Different Occupy groups from Wall Street to San Francisco have begun to explore their relationship with immigrant social movements in the U.S., and to look more closely at the actions of the 1% beyond our borders that produces much of the pressure for migration. <BR> Reacting to the recent evictions, the Coalition for the Political Rights of Mexicans Abroad recently sent a support letter to Occupy Wall Street and the other camps under attack. "We greet your movement," it declared, "because your struggle against the suppression of human rights and against social and economic injustice has been a fundamental part of our struggle, that of the Mexican people who cross borders, and the millions of Mexican migrants who live in the United States."<BR> Many of those migrants living in the U.S. know the tradition of the planton and how it's used at home. And they know that the 1%, whose power is being challenged on Wall Street, also designed the policies that are the very reason why immigrants are living in the U.S. to begin with. Mike Garcia, president of United Service Workers West/SEIU, the union that organized Occupy ICE, described immigrant janitors as "displaced workers of the new global economic order, an order led by the West and the United States in particular."<BR> Criminalizing the act of camping out in a public space is intended, at least in part, to keep a planton tradition from acquiring the same legitimacy in the U.S. that it has in other countries. That right to a planton was not freely conceded by the rulers of Mexico, El Salvador or the Philippines, however -- no more than it has been conceded here. The 99% of those countries had to fight for it. <BR>Two of the biggest battles of modern Mexican political history were fought in the Tlatelolco Plaza, where hundreds of students were gunned down in 1968, and three years later in Mexico City streets where more were beaten and shot by the paramilitary Halcones. In both El Salvador and the Philippines, strikers have a tradition of living at the gates of the factory or enterprise where they work. But even today that right must be defended against the police, and (at least until the recent election of the Funes and Aquino governments) even the military.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Plantons or encampments don't stand alone. They are tactics used by unions, students, farmers, indigenous organizations and other social movements. Each planton is a visible piece of a movement or organization -- a much larger base. When the plantons are useful to those movements, they defend them. That connection between planton and movement, between the encampment and its social base, is as important as holding the physical space on which the tents are erected.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> <BR> For the last two years that relationship has been very clear in the Zocalo, Mexico City's huge central plaza. During that time, fired members of Mexico's independent leftwing electrical workers union, the SME, have lived in a succession of plantons. They've often been elaborate, with kitchens, meeting rooms and communications centers, in addition to the tents where people slept and ate. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> At various time, the SME encampment was one of several in the huge square. A year ago the workers were joined by indigenous Triqui and Mixtec women from Oaxaca, who protested the violence used by their state's previous governor against teachers' strikes and rural organizations. The social movement in Oaxaca, which the women represented in Mexico City, grew strong enough to finally knock the old ruling party, the PRI, from the governorship it had held for almost 80 years.<BR> In the Zocalo plantons, people from different organizations mix it up. Last September's Day of the Indignant brought together people from very diverse movements. Some see electoral politics as a vehicle for change, but many indigenous activists and SME members don't. Even among those who do, there are deep disagreements over how to participate in the electoral process. <BR>But the people in the Zocalo have two things in common. Different plantons may not see every political question eye-to-eye, but each represents a social movement in the world outside the plaza. And the planton itself has value primarily because it forces public attention to focus on the crisis that has led each group to set up its encampment.<BR> The SME workers used their plantons to dramatize repression by the Federal government. When Mexican President Felipe Calderon dissolved the state-run power company for central Mexico and fired its 44,000 employees, he sought to destroy their union and move towards the privatization of the electrical system -- to benefit Mexican and foreign 1%ers. A year ago, several SME members conducted a hunger strike at the planton that generated front page headlines for weeks, and lasted so long that doctors warned participants they were risking death. At the height of the protest, the union battled police in front of the power stations, as it tried to exercise its legal right to strike and picket. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> The planton and the movement outside it were intimately connected. The hunger strikers were few, but spoke for a union of tens of thousands of workers. In the end, the SME negotiated the removal of its last planton in return for government acknowledgement of its right to exist. It organized other unions to resist the government's assault on labor rights, and mobilized electricity consumers to protest rising bills and cuts in service. The planton helped to focus attention on these demands, and to pull the union's allies into action.<BR> Clearly someone in Seattle knows this tradition of plantons in the Zocalo, perhaps even as a participant. When the painter made the Seattle banner, she or he also included, right next to the word "planton", the anarchists' "A" with the circle around it. This symbol was a reminder of another aspect of cross-border fertilization. Many anarchists or anarcho-syndicalists -- members of the Industrial Workers of the World - fought in the Mexican Revolution. Because of that revolutionary upheaval, even today, almost a century later, ordinary Mexicans expect certain rights, including the right to set up a tent in the Zocalo. U.S. workers crossed the border to fight alongside Mexicans in that insurrection long ago, for a government that would acknowledge that right. The planton, therefore, is a common heritage, with a history that makes it as legitimate on Wall Street as it is in Mexico City.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Not long after the OWS camp was set up in Zuccotti Park, the planton/occupy movement crossed the U.S./Mexico border. In Tijuana, home to a million people, mostly displaced migrants from Mexico's south, activists came together and set up an occupation on the grassy median of the Paseo de los Heroes. Their tents were pitched in the middle of the Zona del Rio, where the city's 1% meet in fancy hotels and work in government offices. Then, on October 18 police reacted even earlier than they did in most U.S. cities, arresting two dozen activists at the urging of local businessmen. Occupy Tijuana condemned the detentions, declaring, "We are not assassins, delinquents, tramps or crooks."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000> In the U.S. we have our own history of defending public space for protest, and it isn't necessary to reach back a hundred years to find it. In just the last few decades, immigrant workers have popularized the use of the planton here, helping unions recover the militant tactics of their own past. In 1992 immigrants trying to join the United Electrical Workers mounted the first strike among production workers in Silicon Valley, and set up a planton and conducted a hunger strike to pressure their employer. A year later other Latino immigrants in San Francisco erected their tents on the sidewalk in front of Sprint's headquarters, after their workplace was closed days before they were scheduled to vote in a union election. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> A decade ago anti-globalization activists and unions shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. Young protestors chained their arms together inside metal pipes, and lay down in the intersections of downtown Seattle. Tens of thousands took over the streets. Other anti-globalization protests followed, in which activists battled for their right to use public space to challenge the international policies of the 1%. <BR> Working=class support for the battle in Seattle had its roots in the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Workers could see the cost of free trade in the loss of their own jobs, as production moved south. Over the last two decades, many have also discovered that those same agreements and policies didn't make Mexicans better off, but led to their impoverishment as well.<BR> NAFTA and free market policies forced on developing countries produced opportunities for banks and corporations to reap profits. They drove down wages, forced farmers off their land, and destroyed the unions and livelihood of millions of people. This system was designed on Wall Street, by the same bankers Occupiers hold responsible for the current crisis of foreclosures and unemployment in the U.S. The current economic crisis doesn't stop at the border. In fact in Mexico, Central America, the Philippines and elsewhere, it's been a fact of life for a long time. This is the source of forced migration -- what Garcia condemned at Occupy ICE.<BR> The 99% live in all those countries where free trade agreements and structural adjustment policies are imposed. They also live in the communities of people who have come here as a result. Who, then, are more natural allies for Occupy protestors than people who've been on the receiving end of these policies for years?<BR> In New York this connection wasn't lost on Occupy Wall Street. In October a group, Occupy Wall Street - Español was formed at the first Asemblea en Español. They, in turn, translated the first issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. Participants formed a subgroup, Occupy Wall Street Latinoamericano to spread the movement to Spanish-speaking communities, recognizing that the city is home to so many Mexicans from the state of Puebla that its nickname is PueblaYork, as well as much older established communities of Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Ecuadorians and other Spanish-speaking people. The group will soon publish the first issue of its own newspaper, with articles talking about immigration, globalization, and the specific attacks by the 1% on Latinos.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Claudia Villegas, a women's rights activist working with the group Occupy Wall Street Latinoamericano, helped organize a demonstration of immigrant women four days after police raided the Zuccotti Park encampment. "We decided to change our original plan for a march because we were afraid they would stop it," she says. "Nevertheless, 23 organizations participated including women's rights groups and above all, those working with immigrant women."<BR> In San Francisco a joint march of immigrant activists and Occupy participants helped to defend that city's encampment. In the general assembly meeting preceding it participants talked about the city's offer to move the Occupiers into an abandoned building in the Latino Mission District several miles away. Few wanted to give up the camp on Justin Herman Plaza, and most felt the city was just trying to move them out of sight. But many people also felt that having an Occupy camp in the barrio was a good idea.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> "We're still really working in parallel," Villegas says. She draws attention to the potential power of the immigrant rights movement, and what it could mean to OWS. "We have to include the movement that began in 2006, when there were hundreds of thousands of people in the streets across this country. People were reacting to the injustice of the system then too." They're separate movements, though, she warns, and "our agenda has to come from immigrants themselves. We need to integrate, and at the same time the Occupy movement has to learn to accept us. But we're all on the same path."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR> Bringing the immigrant and Occupy movements together means more than setting up an encampment. The San Diego demonstration didn't set up an overnight camp, but it brought thousands of workers and supporters down to the ICE detention center to protest the firings of immigrant janitors. <BR>The Occupy ICE protest was intended to draw public attention to the Federal government's immigration enforcement strategy that requires employers to fire undocumented workers. In Southern California, the multinational corporations who clean office buildings are terminating 2000 union members. Earlier waves of firings have targeted unionized building cleaners in Minneapolis, Seattle and San Francisco, sewing machine operators in Los Angeles, food service workers on university campuses, and thousands of others.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Garcia says ICE and the employers are in collusion. After firing union janitors with high seniority and benefits, using immigration status as a pretext, the companies can then hire new workers at lower wages with fewer benefits. "To hide their greed the commercial real estate industry has used the tools of government to confuse and divide the 99%," he charges. "They first said we were unskilled workers who should be happy to be working. They then weakened worker protections to make organizing virtually impossible. Over the last decade the industry has used immigration as a wedge to intimidate and, if need be, replace our workers. ICE is doing what the 1% corporate real estate industry wants: using immigration laws to recycle well paid janitors in the hopes of taking back gains in pay and benefits our union has won." [Ironically the week USWW organized Occupy ICE its parent union, SEIU, endorsed the reelection of President Obama, who is responsible for the ICE policy of firing workers.] </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> For Occupy, defending workers under attack is a way to survive, grow roots and develop a strong base. That's not always the direction activists take, however. Near Oakland, over two hundred immigrant workers at the largest foundry on the west coast, Pacific Steel Casting in Berkeley, are being fired in another "silent raid" like that hitting the janitors. Through the summer and fall, foundry workers went to city councils, unions, churches and community organizations, seeking help to pressure ICE not to force them from their jobs. Their campaign held "the migra" off for months, but the firings began nevertheless in November. Now these immigrant families are trying to survive. Occupy Oakland has yet to respond, however. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Instead, some of its activists are trying to shut down work in Oakland's port a second time, as well as others along the west coast. An earlier march to close the port after the first eviction of Occupy Oakland drew thousands of people. The proposal for a second coast-wide shutdown, however, is opposed by the longshore union. The ILWU's opposition does not come from conservatism. The union, whose members make a living from international shipping and trade, has been one of the most vocal critics of U.S. free trade agreements. ILWU members have taken action many times to defend the SME and unions in Mexico, as well as other countries. Its locals, however, had no role in the decision to try to close the ports, nor did other port workers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> Solidarity is a two-way street, based on mutual respect. In most cities, including Oakland and San Francisco, labor has welcomed Occupy and sought to defend the encampments. In New York, Occupy activists have been given resources in many union halls, and unions have mobilized against police raids at Zuccotti Park. An alliance of unions, immigrants and Occupiers has great potential strength, not just in numbers, but also in the exchange of ideas and tactics. Unions in particular might benefit from wider use of the planton or Occupy encampment. Occupy ICE challenges the Occupy movement to take up the firings of immigrant workers, but it's also a challenge to unions themselves, many of whom have watched in silence as longtime members were forced from their jobs. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> The vision of Occupy -- the 99% vs. the 1% -- has enormous support among immigrants and unions. In place of the tired rhetoric of politicians, shedding crocodile tears for the "middle class" while demonizing the poor, Occupy gives workers a vision of their commonality in the 99%. This powerful message blows away illusions that higher-paid workers have more in common with stockbrokers than with immigrants laboring at minimum wage, or unemployed young people on the streets of African American ghettos or Latino barrios.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000> The Coalition for the Political Rights of Mexicans Abroad shares the same vision of class-based commonality. "We are outraged," it says, "that U.S. citizens, when they demand justice and expose the inequalities that exist in their society, are treated like criminals. With the same outrage, we condemn the criminalization of migrant Mexicans by the U.S. government, the raids by immigration authorities [and] the militarization of the border...No human being should be treated as a criminal because they struggle to find better conditions in which to live."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>For more articles and images, see <A href="http://dbacon.igc.org">http://dbacon.igc.org</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>See also Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><A href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002">http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2002</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><A href="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575">http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><A href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html">http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html</A> </FONT></DIV><PRE>--
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<DIV class="SandboxScopeClass ExternalClass PlainTextMessageBody" id=mpf0_MsgContainer><PRE>For the Dec. 12 port action, "Occupy the Ports! A Day Without Goldman <BR>Sachs!" we are especially in need of transportation, as well as legal <BR>observers and support, and of course participants.<BR> <BR>This week, outreach is still very important. You can download a <BR>quarter sheet flyer (four images on an 8-1/2X11 sheet) with the basic <BR>info, including contact info, from www.occupytheports.com [not our <BR>website]. If you can copy and distribute it, particularly in South <BR>Bay and Harbor area cities (for example, Torrance, Gardena, Compton, <BR>Wilmington, Carson, and San Pedro) and at campuses in that area (for <BR>example, CSU LB and Dominguez Hills, LBCC, Compton College, etc.) <BR>that would be very helpful.<BR> <BR>People can come down the night before, Sunday Dec. 11 to Occupy Long <BR>Beach in Lincoln Park, downtown Long Beach near City Hall. They have <BR>their general assembly from 4-6:00 PM, which will be followed by a <BR>port action/General Strike Preparation Committee mtg at 6:00 PM. We <BR>will be finalizing some logistical details and making placards and banners.<BR> <BR>The day of, Monday, Dec. 12, we will be car-pooling from 1st and Main <BR>in downtown LA (the corner of Solidarity Park outside City Hall) at <BR>4:15 AM. We need drivers, and if anyone can provide a bus or some <BR>large vans (say from a church, union, or university) that would be <BR>fantastic. Contact occupytheports@gmail.com or 323-901-4269 if you can help.<BR> <BR>We will be gathering in Long Beach for the action at 5:00 AM in Harry <BR>Bridges Park. This is right next to the Queen Mary past downtown Long <BR>Beach, at the foot of the 710 freeway. When you exit the freeway, <BR>there will be signs directing you into parking for the Queen Mary. We <BR>will have to park there, as street parking in the area is extremely <BR>limited. Parking is $12 flat rate (it's open 24/7 as it's parking for <BR>the hotel and restaurants as well as the vessel). You can walk back <BR>out (I believe the directional signs say "Events Park" rather than <BR>Harry Bridges); the park is right along the water's edge north of the <BR>freeway off-ramp. There may still be some road work going on.<BR> <BR>Depending on the numbers we rally, and the freedom we have to operate <BR>(port police etc may shut down roads to prevent access), we will <BR>march on at least one nearby (about a mile) SSA Marine terminal gate. <BR>We cannot and will not enter the terminal etc. We are planning a <BR>legal, public protest and if possible a community picket. If we have <BR>very large numbers, or if we are prevented for approaching that <BR>particular terminal, there are other possible facilities owned by or <BR>associated with SSA Marine (a Goldman Sachs company) that we could <BR>drive to and rally outside of.<BR></PRE></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR>You need to <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=gnCdiZd7gka5g5h9LofE2N9htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>check out this website, right now</FONT></B></A>. <BR><BR>It’s a powerful reminder of the real faces behind America’s sobering unemployment statistics. It has real pictures and stories from job-hunters and impacted people from all walks of life—from your state and from every state. <BR><BR>I hope you’ll <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=n%2BgCbHeRvLEjisxipab3Nd9htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>take a minute to look at these powerful stories, share them and add your own</FONT></B></A>.<BR><BR>If Congress fails to act by Dec. 31, extended unemployment insurance will expire for millions. <BR><BR><B>We never forget these are real people</B> who face the prospect of going hungry and getting thrown out of their homes soon after the holidays if Congress fails to act. Many of us have been there before—or have friends and family who have.<BR><BR><B>Even though obstructionists in Congress are willing to ignore our joblessness crisis, we refuse to let these stories get brushed under the rug.</B><BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=uRAU7KgjvSlhlT52nVTTON9htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Click here to see and share the stories and faces behind America’s joblessness crisis</FONT></A>. </B><BR><BR>Then, share our website on <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=lK85d39jrTgqyxXF155MC99htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>Facebook</FONT></B></A> and <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=6fQSd03qhXPqy4oOWQz4IXBGt5jyTKDX" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>Twitter</FONT></B></A> and forward this message to all your friends.<BR><BR>These stories and pictures won’t just live on a website. We’ll share them with the media, hand-deliver them to Congress during our massive day of action on Dec. 8 and promote them widely on the Internet.<BR><BR><B>If callous members of Congress think they can sit back and allow unemployment aid to expire while they play political games, they’re wrong.</B> With your help we’re going to force them to see this crisis head-on—with real faces of real people who are jobless and struggling in this brutal economy. <BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nd1CEhfh//NpEjXgPzuuMt9htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>See these stories, share them and add your voice</FONT></A>.</B><BR><BR>In Solidarity,<BR><BR>Manny Herrmann<BR>Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO<BR><BR>P.S. It’s not just people who are unemployed right now who have stories to tell. Millions of others do, too.<BR><BR>Maybe you’ve been jobless in the past and relied on unemployment benefits to get through. Or you’ve seen firsthand how much unemployment hurts your community and America—and how much unemployment aid helps. Or maybe you can write a brief statement of support for the jobless or urge Congress to act—even in just one to two sentences.<BR><BR><B>Together, we’re creating a visual display of the impact of unemployment that will be too powerful to ignore. <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=V6XYJBQW1MPDE4EY7O2wVt9htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>See and share stories and statements in your state and across America</FONT></A>.</B> Then, <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=KCUznhgNh/v04xW1hgAiX99htOZU/D2j" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>add your own</FONT></B></A>.</SPAN></SPAN><BR></TD></TR>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica">-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Gerardo Cajamarca <gcajamarca@sinaltrainal.org><BR>To: Gerardo Cajamarca <gcajamarca@sinaltrainal.org><BR>Sent: Thu, Dec 1, 2011 2:18 pm<BR>Subject: CONTINUAN AMENAZAS CONTRA SINALTRAINAL...Rv: O se largan o se mueren<BR><BR>
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<SPAN lang=ES-CO>"Malditos guerrilleros disfrasaos de sindicalistas se largan ose muerengonorreas". Es el texto de las nuevas amenazas de muerte contra dirigentes de Sinaltrainal, seccional Valledupar. El trabajador de Nestlé de Colombia y actual vicepresidente nacional del sindicato Alfonso Barón, es uno de los amenazados.</SPAN><BR>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0068cf><IMG title=Image height=100 alt=Image hspace=6 src="http://www.sinaltrainal.org/images/stories/campo5/alfonso.jpg" width=84 border=1></FONT>"Malditos guerrilleros disfrasaos de sindicalistas se largan ose muerengonorreas". Es el texto de las nuevas amenazas de muerte contra dirigentes de Sinaltrainal, seccional Valledupar. El trabajador de Nestlé de Colombia y actual vicepresidente nacional del sindicato Alfonso Barón, es uno de los amenazados.</DIV>
Las amenazas fueron recibidas en sus celulares el 30 de Noviembre de 2011, entre las 5: 12 y las 5:30 p.m. A esa hora los compañeros se encontraban reunidos en junta directiva seccional.<BR>
Los compañeros amenazados son: JAIRO BUELVAS tesorero de la seccional Valledupar, ALFONSO BARON presidente, WALBERTO QUINTERO vicepresidente y ELMER BLANCO fiscal.<BR>
La amenaza de texto fue enviada del celular No 3116772991<BR>
Exigimos del gobierno nacional garantías de seguridad y vida para los compañeros amenazados, sus familias y demás integrantes de Sinaltrainal.<BR>
Sinaltrainal Seccional Valldupar<BR></DIV>
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<SPAN lang=ES-CO><SPAN> </SPAN>"Malditos guerrilleros disfrasaos de sindicalistas se largan ose muerengonorreas". Es el texto de las nuevas amenazas de muerte contra dirigentes de Sinaltrainal, seccional Valledupar. El trabajador de Nestlé de Colombia y actual vicepresidente nacional del sindicato Alfonso Barón, es uno de los amenazados. </SPAN><BR>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In Joliet, Ill., Marvin says his unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are no substitute for a paycheck, but “I'm able to keep a roof over our heads....I’d like Congress to walk in my shoes for a day.” Marvin’s story is just one of hundreds on a new AFL-CIO website (click <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=JBDAz7ZSHQPEORdkPApfq4XxeEMcOygJ" target=_blank><B><FONT color=#0068cf>here</FONT></B></A>) where jobless workers and families are sharing their experiences to spur Congress to extend benefits before the program expires Dec. 31. As many as 6 million people could lose their UI coverage if Congress doesn’t act. Click here to read their stories or share yours.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV>acnnews 9<BR>Latin America: a start point<BR>By Nestor Nuñez<BR> <BR>With the official foundation of the Community of Latin American and<BR>Caribbean States (CELAC), this new organization faces a huge challenge as<BR>it undertakes its journey.<BR> <BR>This organization, made up of 33 nations from Latin America and the<BR>Caribbean, wisely excluding the United States and Canada in view that both<BR>countries do not share the history and the origins of the peoples of the<BR>South, is based on open but solid grounds as long as its members maintain<BR>their political will to work with seriousness and not as parts of just<BR>another regional group.<BR> <BR>As a matter of fact, this institution was created on the bases of<BR>diversity of criteria, viewpoints, interpretations, and policies, which<BR>must give priority to mutual aspirations and needs.<BR> <BR>Fortunately, while speaking at the Third Latin American and Caribbean<BR>Summit, held in Caracas, Venezuela, the participant regional leaders<BR>agreed in that there are but two choices for this geographic area: to come<BR>together or to get absorbed by this increasingly tempestuous, complex, and<BR>incongruous world.<BR> <BR>Such union is favored by public knowledge in that this area possesses the<BR>necessary conditions and material and human resources so as to become an<BR>important beacon in humanity’s fate, leaving behind all trails of former<BR>subordination and ostracism imposed by centuries of foreign domination. <BR> <BR>There is also an evident consensus on the fact that such union is not only<BR>based on economic or commercial purposes, and that it demands a constant<BR>struggle for social improvement so that the quality of life of our peoples<BR>increases along with the development of productive, technological, and<BR>financial potentials; and to set aside once and for all the stigma of<BR>having the worst distribution of wealth rate in the world.<BR> <BR>Thus, apparently, subjective elements such as comprehension and<BR>understanding will benefit the positive development of CELAC as longed for<BR>and defended by the most illustrious figures in the history of the region.<BR> <BR>However, it is worth to recall that the events held in Caracas are just a<BR>letter of introduction.<BR> <BR>CELAC has been officially founded with commendable force. Now it is time<BR>to make it grow stronger, spread and test its strength and principles, and<BR>to put into practice its projections with hope, self-determination and<BR>real freedom to all Latin American and Caribbean nations. <BR> <BR>And yet this organization should stay alert as Northern nations keep an<BR>eye on it with resentment because they do not long for our independence. <BR> <BR> <BR>Worldnews/acm/aga/1.27 PM/aga<BR>Cuban News Agency<BR>www.cubanews.ain.cu<BR>ainnews@ain.cu<BR><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri>SUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT'S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN<BR>ON DECEMBER 12TH</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast<BR>port city: Occupy LA, Occupy <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_25 style="CURSOR: hand">San Diego</SPAN></SPAN>, Occupy <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_26 style="CURSOR: hand">Portland</SPAN></SPAN>, Occupy<BR><SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_27 style="BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; CURSOR: hand">Tacoma</SPAN></SPAN>, Occupy <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_28 style="CURSOR: hand">Seattle</SPAN></SPAN> have joined Occupy <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_29 style="CURSOR: hand">Oakland</SPAN></SPAN> in calling for and<BR>organizing a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade and Shutdown on<BR>December 12, 2011. Other West Coast Occupies, including Occupy<BR><SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_30 style="BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; CURSOR: hand">Anchorage</SPAN></SPAN> and <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_31 style="CURSOR: hand">Vancouver, Canada</SPAN></SPAN> are planning to join the economic<BR>blockade and disruption of the 1% on that date, according to<BR>organizers. </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri>From: Ernesto Nevarez <</FONT><A href="http://us.mc633.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=portofaztlan%40yahoo.com" target=_blank><SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_5><FONT face=Calibri>portofaztlan@yahoo.com</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face=Calibri>></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:59 PM<BR><BR>Estimado Companero <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_6 style="CURSOR: hand">Panama</SPAN></SPAN>,<BR>see: </FONT><A href="http://www.westcoastportshutdown.org/" target=_blank><SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_7><FONT face=Calibri size=3>http://www.westcoastportshutdown.org/</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri> also, attached flyer<BR><BR>I understand that you are very busy otherwise I would ask u to read<BR>the Port of Aztlan. However, I'm hitting the streets passing out<BR>flyers for Dec. 12 and won't be posting much. Toni from<BR>Occupy Long Beach is doing all the networking.<BR><BR>The workers and Occupy are shutting down the ports and in <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_8 style="CURSOR: hand">Los Angeles</SPAN></SPAN><BR>WE will be joining Javier Rodriguez and the migrant movement for our<BR>march in downtown. </FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri>We are also striking back against the nationally' coordinated attack</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri size=3> on the Occupy movement. In response to the police violence and camp<BR>evictions against the Occupy movement- This is our coordinated<BR>response against the 1%.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri> On December 12th we will show are collective<BR>power through pinpointed economic blockade of the 1%."<BR>Each Occupy is organizing plans for a mass mobilization and community<BR>pickets to shut down their local Port. The mobilization of over<BR>60,000 people that shut down the Port of Oakland during the general<BR>strike on November 2, 2011 is the model for the West Coast efforts.<BR>Organizers state that a police attempt to disrupt the port blockade or<BR>police violence against any city participating will extend duration of<BR>the blockade on the entire coast.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri>Occupy Denver stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri size=3> who will be blocking the economic apparatus of the 1% by shutting down the<BR>ports of the world on Dec 12. Occupy Denver is calling for all land<BR>locked occupations to do the same with a coordinated shutdown of<BR>Walmart distribution centers throughout the United States on December<BR>12th.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri> The 1% through this greedy cooperation have destroyed<BR>communities throughout the world, disregarded workers natural rights,<BR>eliminated production jobs in the United States, lowered the standard<BR>of living for all, and disrupted the lives of the workers who create<BR>their wealth. At the same time coordinated nationwide police attacks<BR>have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our<BR>Occupy movement and neglect the very serious issues we are raising.<BR><BR>We call on every occupation to organize a mass mobilization to shut<BR>down its local <SPAN class=ecxyshortcuts><SPAN id=ecxlw_1323189355_23 style="CURSOR: hand">Walmart distribution center</SPAN></SPAN>.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black"><FONT face=Calibri>At 1 PM on December 12th, Occupy Seattle will join the rest of the</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT face=Calibri size=3>West Coast Occupy movement in a mass march to the Seattle port with<BR>the intention of shutting it down through a mass community<BR>picket/blockade.<BR><BR>Later, there will be two rallies near the port at 3pm and 6pm at the<BR>Spokane Street fishing area, just to the east of the Spokane St.<BR>bridge, near the intersection of SW Spokane St & SW Manning St. under<BR>the West Seattle bridge</FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The right to vote is the heart of our democracy. Throughout our history, Americans have fought for and died for this most basic right. But today that right is under attack like never before, the target is the voting rights of Black voters, Latino voters, Asian American Voters, Native American Voters, as well as students and young people, seniors, working women, and immigrants of all colors. These are also among the voting demographics who are most likely to support workers’ rights, equal opportunity, women's rights, LBGT rights, environmental protection, and peace. In 2011 alone, two-thirds of state legislatures introduced laws that undermine the right to vote <SPAN class=ecxapple-style-span><SPAN style="COLOR: #222222">and voter suppression has taken many forms, including attacks on early and Sunday voting to make voting harder for working people, photo ID requirements for voting and registration that introduce the first financial barrier to voting since the poll tax, and the same racially-motivated ex-felon bans.</SPAN></SPAN> <B>It is time to Stand together, Stand for Freedom and protect our right to VOTE!</B></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxDefault><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">10:30 am to 11:30 am: assemble 61st St. and Madison Ave., the Koch brothers' NYC office.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxDefault><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">12:30 pm: Rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across from the United Nations.</SPAN></P>
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<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>If we want 2012 to be a year with good, American jobs...</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>where workers are respected,</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>and can join a union if they want...</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>we're going to have to fight for it.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=17lNQud93g5HY1CpUtgmRi74iwAbbE7g" target=_blank><STRONG>Get in the trenches. Make your donation today >></STRONG></A></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>
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<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>This year we told greedy and abusive companies that <STRONG>no one should sacrifice their self-respect for a job...</STRONG> get fired unfairly... work in 100-degree heat... or endure a workplace where people get hurt or sick. We told them that America should be a place with <EM>good</EM> jobs.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>And together, we've been making it happen – by pressuring IKEA to let their workers form a union in Virginia, by shaming Amazon for treating workers like sweatshop laborers, and by making sure that California legislators know that going after collective bargaining comes at a <EM>steep</EM> political price. </FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>But the fight doesn't end here.</STRONG> Is 2012 going to be the year where workers are demeaned, demoralized, and taken advantage of? Or will 2012 be the year we protect workers from greedy corporations, champion collective bargaining rights, and make sure politicians represent <EM>our</EM> interests?</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0068cf size=2><A href="http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=yBehpyqTl1e2WDigkGGAvS74iwAbbE7g" target=_blank><STRONG>Make a donation to continue our momentum for workers' rights in 2012 – and if you donate $35 or more by December 14, USA Coffee will send you a free bag of union-made coffee in time for the holidays.</STRONG></A></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>What's the story behind the free coffee? It's made by the kind of people that we love to support: the employees that harvest and process USA Coffee are paid fair wages. They have healthcare and retirement benefits and a voice on the job. USA Coffee is proof that companies don't have to choose between profits and workers.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>But if we want companies like IKEA and Amazon to follow USA Coffee's lead, we're going to have to continue to <STRONG>fight for it</STRONG>. More than ever, we'll have to publicly shame corporations that rob workers to increase their bottom line. We'll have to make sure that legislators who try to shred collective bargaining rights will face the consequences. We'll have to build coalitions, generate press, and run aggressive campaigns. And we'll have to do it smarter, bigger, and better than ever before.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Let me tell it to you straight: <STRONG>We just won't succeed without the partnership of people like you</STRONG> – people who haven't given up on the American Dream, who care about the workers who make our country strong, and who will get in the trenches and do what they can to make it a good place to work.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks so much for your support.</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Sincerely,</FONT><BR>
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<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #000">The change reflects demographics, in part, but also government cost-cutting that has resulted in less generous pay and benefits.</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: #000">Many in India fear that its local stores will be hurt if Wal-Mart is allowed to open American-style retail stores.</P>
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