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<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>PLEASE POST: Human rights crisis on our soil</FONT></STRONG></LI>
<LI><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13966?akid=7998.16102.ce6kUY&t=36" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>REPORT: 3.3 Million Will Lose Unemployment Insurance Under House GOP’s Payroll Tax Bill</STRONG></FONT></A></LI>
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<H3 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/opinion/worker-owners-of-america-unite.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212" target=_blank><FONT size=3>Worker-Owners of America, Unite!</FONT></A></H3></LI>
<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>Celebrate 100 years Anniversary of the Free Speech Fight</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<LI><STRONG><FONT size=3>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Helps ALEC Undercut Public Education</FONT></STRONG></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://act.alternet.org/go/13972?akid=7996.16102.Pi2AoT&t=11" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf size=3><STRONG>Grad Students, Fighting for Right to Unionize, Stage Emergency-Room Drama Outside NLRB Offices</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV></LI>
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<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Scholastic, the educational publishing giant, has come under fire for including a story about Occupy Wall Street in its <EM>Scholastic News</EM> magazine, which is distributed to school kids in classrooms around the country. <EM>WorldNetDaily</EM>, the conservative online news outlet, ran a story this week suggesting that Scholastic was trying to indoctrinate innocent school kids with George Soros-style liberalism.</P>
<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">In a piece headlined "4th-graders Brainwashed with Occupy 'Propaganda," <EM>WND</EM> tells the story of a parent, identified only by his first name, who's outraged that his child came home from school with a copy of Scholastic News that included an article called, "What is Occupy Wall Street?" According to <EM>WND</EM>, "Edward," the parent, complained about the article to Scholastic, saying "I grew up in Soviet Union and seeing your propaganda about Occupy Wall Street brings back my memories." <A style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #999999; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=b9ODiMWG3PSsY3HE_giORQ" target=_blank>[READ MORE]</A></P>
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<P style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">It's a difficult time to be unemployed in America. But congressional Republicans seem determined to make it even more difficult. <A style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #999999; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=wYM9w0-qXdPYkzWl_gLLOA" target=_blank>[READ MORE]</A></P>
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<DIV class=ecxgmail_quote>On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:31 AM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dana@breakthrough.tv"><FONT color=#0068cf>dana@breakthrough.tv</FONT></A>></SPAN> wrote:<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#222222 size=3><BR><BR>There is a human rights crisis on our soil that no one is talking about. Please help get people talking by watching and sharing Breakthrough’s new video, “DESERTED: The Human Rights Crisis On Our Soil.” <<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg</FONT></A>> <BR><BR>The remains of at least 6,000 migrants have been found on U.S. desert land since U.S.-Mexico border policies were implemented in the 1990s. Advocates and authorities attribute the escalating number of deaths not only to rising heat but also to ever-tightening border security that forces migrants into more remote and dangerous terrain. <BR><BR>Some groups estimate that for each set of remains recovered, those of 10 more people are lost to the harsh desert elements. DESERTED includes chilling images of a morgue in Tucson, Arizona in which row after row of body bags contain human remains that may never be identified, human beings whose loved ones may never know what happened to them. <BR><BR>As we approach the United Nations’ International Migrants Day — observed annually on December 18 to recognize the contributions and rights of migrants worldwide — DESERTED calls on viewers to recognize these deaths as a humanitarian emergency and human rights crisis that transcends the particulars of the immigration debate.<BR><BR>Please watch and share this video as widely as possible (<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dobue_Anrxg</FONT></A>). Then take action to end this human rights crisis by visiting No More Deaths (<A href="http://www.nomoredeaths.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>www.nomoredeaths.org</FONT></A>) and Coalición de Derechos Humanos (<A href="http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>www.derechoshumanosaz.net</FONT></A>). (Other groups featured in the video: DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving); VAMOS Unidos.) <BR><BR>Post on your blogs, share with friends, and tweet! <BR><BR>Sample tweet: Watch new @breakthrough video "DESERTED" the #humanrights crisis on U.S. soil that no one’s talking about. #immigration #Arizona #border<BR><BR>Thank you. <BR><BR>Dana<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR>-- <BR>Dana Variano | MultiMedia Associate<BR>Breakthrough<BR><BR>4 West 37th Street | 4th Floor | New York, NY 10018 | USA <BR>t <A target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>+1.212.868.6500</FONT></A><BR>Twitter @breakthrough | <A href="http://www.breakthrough.tv/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>www.breakthrough.tv</FONT></A><BR></FONT></FONT><BR><BR>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From: </B>Lorena Gonzalez <lgonzalez@unionyes.org> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Date: </B>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:30:26 +0000</DIV>
<DIV><B>To: </B>Lorena Gonzalez<lgonzalez@unionyes.org></DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject: </B>Celebrate 100 years Anniversary of the Free Speech Fight</DIV>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear Brothers and Sisters:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In the beginning of the new year, we will mark the 100-year anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Movement and Labor’s critical role in establishing and protecting that 1<SUP>st</SUP> Amendment Right! We will kick off our celebration with a January 6<SUP>th</SUP> evening reception and photography exhibit at the Centro Cultural de la Raza.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In January, 1912 the San Diego’s City Council passed an ordinance which made speaking in public a crime in a 50-block area around E Street and 5<SUP>th</SUP> Avenue in Downtown San Diego. This ban that was put into place, in part, to prevent the Industrial Workers of the World from recruiting members to their union. Thousands of IWW “Wobblies” came to San Diego in protest, leading to police brutality, torture by vigilantes, and murder. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The Labor Council has been working with the ACLU to commemorate this 100-year anniversary of the fights in San Diego to protect free speech – a fight that continues today. A series of events, including an art exhibit and lecture series, are planned for January and February 2012, leading up to a major action on February 8, 2012 (save the date!), to mark the anniversary of the mass arrests. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Attached, please find information about how your union or organization can help support these important activities as we remember those who struggled to protect our freedom of speech, and honor those who continue the fight. Please consider supporting this event at whatever level you can, and contact Jerry Tomaszewicz (<A href="mailto:jt@unionyes.org"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">jt@unionyes.org</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">) </SPAN>with any questions. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Also, please check out our website at: <A href="http://www.aftguild.org/free_speech/index.html" target=_blank>http://www.aftguild.org/free_speech/index.html</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </SPAN>and our Facebook page at <A href="https://www.facebook.com/events/214079238670849/" target=_blank>https://www.facebook.com/events/214079238670849/</A><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal>In Solidarity,</P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal>Lorena</P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><I><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Lorena Gonzalez</SPAN></I></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><I><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Secretary-Treasurer / CEO, San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO</SPAN></I></P>
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<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Labor's Training and Community Development Alliance Scholarship Now Available</SPAN></H2>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are proud to announce a scholarship for high school seniors who are children of union members in good standing with their local union.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The first year scholarship will be $2,500 with continued scholarship assistance of an additional $1,000 per year for a maximum of three additional years if the student continues to meet scholarship standards.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The goal of the program is to assist students in their educational endeavors at a trade or technical school, community college, four-year university or college. The deadline for applying will be no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.</SPAN></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV align=right><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2><I>- LaTonya Johnson, Licensed Child Care Provider <BR>Council 48, Local 502</I></FONT></DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Dear AFSCME Sisters and Brothers,<BR><BR>Throughout our 75 years, AFSCME has always fought for a better future for public service workers and America’s working families. It was true in 1932 in Madison, WI when we started, continued when we received our official charter from the American Federation of Labor just a few years later in 1936, and is just as true today – as we continue the fight of our lives in Wisconsin and across the entire country. <BR><BR>And that’s why, today, we’re proud to share AFSCME’s storied history with you on our <A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SGGJd9zNf50ozSAkVK8viBRLBW/%2Bj29y&url=http://75.afscme.org/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>new 75th Anniversary website. </FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG></STRONG><BR><BR>It tells the story of the women and men of AFSCME who have always made up the heart and soul of our union. Please take a few minutes to explore it today. <BR><BR></FONT>
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<LI><A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MPfAJHstnEtdMaGgjdBYphRLBW/%2Bj29y&url=http://75.afscme.org/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>Our online exhibit</FONT></STRONG></A> chronicles AFSCME’s 75 years of leadership in the American labor movement. You can flip through each page to learn how we have always fought for “the people who tend to be left behind,” as LaTonya says. <A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Rsy2L4iNTwm8M7AFOCE6MBRLBW/%2Bj29y&url=http://75.afscme.org/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>Click here learn more.</FONT></STRONG></A></LI></UL></FONT></UL><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,sans-serif color=#000000 size=2>Please take a moment to celebrate our union’s 75th Anniversary today, and be sure to <A href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yZx/rZ8TwQcUc4wRsLZQ%2Bbvn4ZD/T8Ja&url=http://75.afscme.org/" target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#0068cf>sign our pledge: “I Stand With AFSCME. I Support public services because they strengthen America and the middle class.”</FONT></STRONG></A> <BR><BR>Thanks for everything you do.<BR><BR>In solidarity,</FONT></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR>Congress is in town for a little more than a week. <BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Time is running out for more than 2 million Americans who can’t find work and are relying on emergency unemployment coverage.</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> They’ll lose their lifeline in January if Congress fails to act. And without action in 2012, that number will rise to at least 6 million.*</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">That’s why we're asking you to act today to share stories of unemployed workers and help us make the case for extending unemployment </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">without cuts or pre-conditions that hurt the 99%.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=mAwkgSuWSBZzvKZZUC3Nwoh/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Go to the AFL-CIO Unemployment Stories website, find stories from unemployed workers and share them.</FONT></A></B><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If you use Twitter, <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=WMSEJOEFUd7%2Bzhzxv/QS0Ih/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><B><U><FONT color=#0068cf>click here.<BR></FONT></U></B></A><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Members of Congress keep getting confronted with the stories of unemployed workers, and it's making a difference</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. The question is no longer <B>whether</B> our leaders will do anything for America's jobless</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">—it looks like they'll do <I>something</I></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">But we're not out of the woods yet. Obstructionists continue to play partisan games with unemployment benefits.<BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=KtEsFr41kMRwGa9KFbotFoh/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word here</FONT></A>.</B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><SPAN>Use Twitter? <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=uH8bHcPArdbh8zRPhBN%2BEIh/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><B><U><FONT color=#0068cf>Click here.</FONT></U></B></A></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Last Thursday—from Wall Street to Main Street to Capitol Hill—we took action for America’s jobless workers. Our most massive mobilization was in Washington, D.C., where more than 2,000 jobless workers and clergy gathered for a prayer vigil on Capitol Hill. <BR><BR>We're keeping that pressure up, pushing out stories to members of Congress and forcing them to pay attention. Our pressure is working—some in Congress who weren't even talking about extending unemployment before now are claiming they are willing to consider extending unemployment coverage, but only with massive cuts as a “compromise.” <BR><BR><B>But we need to push for a clean, full extension of jobless aid, because it's the right thing to do.</B> As Christine Owens of the National Employment Law Project says, "Long-term unemployed workers are not lazy slackers who choose an unemployment check over a paycheck. They are millions of men and women—family, friends and neighbors, many of whom have worked for years—whose lives and livelihoods have been chewed up and spit out by the nation’s worst economy in 80 years. <B>With the number of officially unemployed job seekers still outnumbering job openings by more than four-to-one, it’s no wonder so many long-term unemployed workers cannot find work: there simply are not enough jobs.</B>"<BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=21R6pusqBzQititvRF/Cwoh/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word here</FONT></A></B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. Use Twitter? <A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=LIThp4zqg8MuKWgpRr4spQtqTqbFD/5l" target=_blank><B><U><FONT color=#0068cf>Click here.</FONT></U></B></A></SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">America’s communities are relying on every penny of benefits—and every penny in cuts shrinks the economy and destroys jobs. <BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">We need obstructionists in Congress to be confronted with these stories and know it's unacceptable to cut benefits for jobless workers, cut pay for public employees, cut preventive health services, reduce premium assistance for low- and middle-income individuals buying health insurance, and raise premiums for many Medicare beneficiaries. It's time to stop picking on the 99% and make the 1% pay its fair share.</SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><B><A href="http://act.aflcio.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=UxofNMsR0VybXhrQhutDYYh/%2BzJlIC5C" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>Click here to watch video footage, find stories—and spread the word</FONT></A></B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. 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