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width: 50px; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; float: left; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><span style="line-height: 16px; "></span></a><div class="atclear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; "></div></div><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "><i>Suit Alleges Rampant Wage Violations, Unsafe Working Conditions</i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Today Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against an L.A. carwash, seeking $630,000 in unpaid wages for workers and over $2 million in penalties for violations of the state’s Unfair Competition Law. Violations include failure to pay minimum wage and overtime, failure to report injuries workers suffered on the job, and failure to pay various state payroll taxes. The Attorney General is also seeking an injunction to prevent the carwash from continuing to commit violations in the future.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Henry Huerta, Director of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign said, “The CLEAN Carwash Campaign brought these violations to the attention of the Attorney General because workers reported abuses to us that were horrendous. We applaud the Attorney General for taking such strong action to right these injustices and recover monies owed to carwash workers and the state of California.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Auto Spa Express ran its carwash business at 2028 Sunset Boulevard, on the corner of Alvarado Street, in LA’s Echo Park neighborhood and had been the target of complaints by carwash workers and the Community-Labor-Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) because of its treatment of workers. Workers reported pay that fell far below the minimum wage, dangerous working conditions, and management harassment of workers who sought to organize a union. The carwash was sold in spring of this year to Sunset Car Wash, LLC.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Last year the LA City Council passed a resolution in response to reports of rampant violations of employment and health and safety laws at Los Angeles-area carwashes. The resolution mandated an investigation into City contracts with carwashes. As a result of an investigation, it was discovered that Auto Spa Express should have been paying its workers the living wage since August of 2006. Although the carwash was subject to the Living Wage Ordinance, workers at Auto Spa Express reported being paid approximately $50-60 per day – or $5-6 per hour – for a ten-hour shift. The Living Wage is currently $11.55 an hour. The City subsequently canceled its contract with the carwash.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Custodio Camacho, a former carwash worker at Auto Spa Express said, “The conditions at Auto Spa were awful. We had no place to eat lunch except the chemical storage room and we often worked in the hot sun all day without drinking water or time to take breaks. Several of my coworkers got their hands or legs caught in the conveyor chain because the owners refused to fix it.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">With the help of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign and its community partners, Custodio and his coworkers filed a complaint with Cal/OSHA detailing serious health and safety hazards at the carwash. As a result, Cal/OSHA issued Auto Spa Express $18,890 in citations for health and safety violations in February of 2009. Four violations were classified as “serious” by Cal/OSHA, meaning they created a substantial probability of death or serious physical harm. The Attorney General’s suit also includes allegations that Auto Spa Express failed to report workers’ industrial injuries.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Custodio added, “My coworkers and I wanted to form a union to improve the bad conditions but after they found out I was a union supporter I was fired.” The Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers Union filed charges against Auto Spa Express with the National Labor Relations Board last year for unfair labor practices, including firing workers who supported efforts to form a union. The General Counsel for the NLRB issued a complaint against Auto Spa Express and the case is now before the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Maria Aide Hernandez, a former cashier at Auto Spa Express Car Wash, said, “I hurt my back on the job at the carwash. When I told the manager I was injured and need to apply for workers’ compensation he said he had no idea what I was talking about and refused to give me the forms.” </p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Maria Aide eventually stopped working at Auto Spa when management began paying her with bouncing checks, sometimes leaving her without enough money to buy a bus pass to get to work, let alone provide food for herself and her son or pay rent. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">According to Henry Huerta, “The conditions at Auto Spa Express were appalling but all too common in the carwash industry. We hope this action by the Attorney General causes employers who are operating illegally to appreciate that they cannot expect to violate workers’ rights with impunity.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; ">Huerta added that, “An important part of the effort to clean up the industry is identifying and promoting those carwash operators who play by the rules. On behalf of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign, I would like to invite any carwash employer who wants to do the right thing to sign the CLEAN Carwash Agreement. By doing so they simply pledge to abide by minimum employment, health and safety, and environmental standards, and to respect workers’ right to organize a union free from intimidation, harassment, or other interference.”</p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "></p><hr width="100%" size="2">Related<p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "><a href="http://unionreview.com/l..-carwash-workers-fight-justice" style="color: rgb(0, 73, 209); text-decoration: none; ">L.A. Carwash Workers Fight for Justice</a></p></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/11507-focus-the-commencement-address-that-wont-be-given">http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/11507-focus-the-commencement-address-that-wont-be-given</a>
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</div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Maquiladora Worker rights defender kidnapped, beaten and threatened with death in Puebla, Mexico</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Maquila Solidarity Network</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">'Maquila Network' <maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net></div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><u><b>en.maquilasolidarity.org</b></u></a></div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">May 17, 2012</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">On May 15 at approximately 1:00 pm, four masked men in a van kidnapped worker rights defender José Enrique Morales Montaño, a member of the Worker Support Centre (CAT) in Puebla, Mexico. Morales was abducted as he was on his way to a hearing of at the Local Conciliation and Arbitration Board where the CAT was defending the rights of a group of garment workers.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The kidnappers repeatedly held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him. At approximately 5:00 am the next morning, they stole his cell phone and backpack and left him on an abandoned highway leading to Veracruz. At approximately 7:30 am the following morning, CAT director Blanca Velázquez received a message from Morales' stolen cell phone, stating: "You will die, bitch."</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Unfortunately, this is not the first time members of the CAT team have been harassed, assaulted and subjected to death threats for defending workers' rights in Puebla's maquiladora factories (<a href="http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/node/1070?SESS89c5db41a82abcd7da7c9ac60e04ca5f=mrdvpcufw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">see background</a>). MSN and other Canadian, international and Mexican trade union and human rights organizations are extremely concerned about the safety of the members of the CAT.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Please send a letter today to the Mexican authorities, urging them to take immediate action to guarantee the safety of Morales and other members of the CAT and to bring those responsible for the attacks and threats to justice.</div><div style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Send a letter now: <a href="http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/node/1068?SESS89c5db41a82abcd7da7c9ac60e04ca5f=mrdvpcufw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/node/1068?SESS89c5db41a82abcd7da7c9ac60e04ca5f=mrdvpcufw</a></div></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><div class="ClearBoth" style="line-height: 15px; 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"><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; "></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="line-height: 41px; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 24pt; "><a href="http://cdb-tonatierra.blogspot.com/2012/04/az-sb1070-is-not-law.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio</a><br></span></b></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center; "></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; ">YouTube:</span></div></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3MR8p7n0iY" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b><span style="line-height: 48px; font-size: 28pt; ">AZ SB1070 IS NOT A LAW</span></b></a><br><br></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Phoenix, AZ - “AZ SB 1070 is not a law.” With these words, TONATIERRA representative Tupac Enrique Acosta addressed a press conference on April 11, 2011 at the Arizona State Capitol upon announcement that the 9<sup style="line-height: 14px; ">th</sup> Circuit Court </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">of Appeals upheld District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton's injunction against the most heinous parts of AZ Senate Bill 1070.</span></span><span style="line-height: 17px; "><br></span><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Today, over a year later, the US Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments on the US Justice Department challenge to AZ SB1070, with the state of Arizona in defense. Yet, both sides of the debate frame their arguments in terms of the legitimacy of the legislation as national immigration policy, arguing over where and how both the ultimate and local authority for enforcement must be implemented.</span></span></font> <font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "></span><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>This is the wrong frame.</b> AZ SB 1070 is not an issue of either US or Arizona's "immigration" policies. The framing of the issue as an "immigration" issue is a collusion by both sides arguing in the US Supreme Court today to disguise the projected policies of continuing colonization in the territories under the rubric of "the rule of law", while the crime of colonialism against the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples goes unchallenged, and undefined. </span></span></font> <font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">It is a ploy to position the NAFTA government states of North America (Canada-US-Mexico) as the <b>only</b> legitimate authorities for the determination of legal status in the region. It is an act of premeditated <b>genocide</b> against the sovereign powers of the surviving Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples to freely determine their own future in their own terms, and with their own jurisdictions of nationhood, citizenship and nationality.</span></span></font> <font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">By framing the issue under the concept of "immigration" and legalization under the constructs of the NAFTA government states, without addressing the underlying and ongoing policies and genocide and ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Peoples since 1492, the elites on both sides of the border position themselves for the <b>final solution </b>in <b>collusion</b> against the resistance and rebellion of the <b>Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples</b> of the hemisphere who are moving towards self determination and decolonization.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The injunction by Judge Bolton came on July 28, 2010 one day before the legislation was to take effect and as a result of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against AZ SB1070 that argued that the statute was unconstitutional and preempted by federal law. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer then appealed the injunction and that appeal was denied, which sent the case back to Judge Bolton’s court where the lawsuit will continued.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">AZ SB170 was signed by Governor Brewer last April 23, 2010.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Referring to grave “<b>foreign policy implications</b>” which could come to effect if the enjoined sections of 1070 were unleashed, the 9<sup style="line-height: 14px; ">th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals still did not address the issues of violations of international law which are at the core of the US-Mexico-Canada immigration policies taken as a whole, </span><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Italic'; ">vis-a-vi</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> the <a href="http://cdb-tonatierra.blogspot.com/p/chante-cdb-home.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Human Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families</a>.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">“We support and agree with the position of the 9<sup style="line-height: 14px; ">th</sup> Circuit Court today which upheld the partial injunction against section of AZ SB10, yet these judicial and legislative acts and remedies have not addressed the underlying foreign policy of genocide and territorial expropriation via immigration policies that favor the European-American constituencies at the expense of the Self-Determination of the Indigenous Nations, Pueblos, and the Mexicano Barrios referenced by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (US-Mexico 1848),” said the representative of TONATIERRA.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">“Where is the recognition of the Nations of Indigenous Peoples of this continent, and for the territorial rights of the O’otham Nations upon whose lands this state capitol stands?” he said.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Instead the 9<sup style="line-height: 14px; ">th</sup> Court of Appeals decision references to the “movement” by Angles and Saxons into Roman Britain, but there is no cognition much less recognition that the baseline of legality for the US jurisdiction itself in the hemisphere, Arizona included, is the <a href="http://unpfip.blogspot.com/2012/05/north-american-caucus-statement-on.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b>Doctrine of Discovery</b></a>, which legitimized a political construct of race supremacy continentally and subsequently the establishment of regional anchor baby settlements by European-American “White” populations under the guise of the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">“The hemispheric religio-political constructs of white supremacy which frame AZ SB10 are violations of our common human spirit and will not be tolerated, much less endorsed as public policy or law for our Communities or Peoples. We will not comply. AZ SB 1070 is not a Law.” said Tupac.</span></b></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br>The decision by the 9<sup style="line-height: 14px; ">th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals today reiterates what has been stated many times over by the protests and mega-marches of hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life against the policies of discriminatory law enforcement and legislation that promotes racial profiling which have been coming out of the Arizona state legislature under the leadership of now ex-Senate President Russell Pearce, who has since been removed from office.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">AZ SB170 was never an immigration law, but a tactic of the <b>war of attrition </b>in alignment with the federal <b>Operation End Game</b> program. It was and is still is a law of persecution, state sanctioned persecution under the guise of law, whose real purpose is to prop up the position of privilege and power of the constituencies of "white" America. The decision by the 9th Circuit Court is yet another bump in the night, another Wakeup Call from that nightmare, the <a href="http://soundcloud.com/huehuecoyotl/tupak-huehuecoyotl" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">Nightmare of Manifest Destiny</a>.</span></span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br>###</span></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><br><span style="line-height: 31px; font-size: x-large; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; ">AZ SB 1070 Is Not a Law</span></b></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "></div><span style="line-height: 23px; font-size: large; "></span><br><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">When in the course of <b>Human Events</b>, it becomes necessary for the <b>Voice of the Peoples </b>to be heard, and their presence as members all of the <b>PUBLIC </b>to be recognized as <b>Human Beings</b> with equal right of self identification and self determination as <b>PEOPLES</b> of the <b>Nations </b>and <b>Pueblos of Mother Earth</b>, such jurisprudence demands that at the present time the clarification be boldly made and convincingly argued that:</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.nahuacalli.org/News.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b><span style="line-height: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20pt; ">AZ SB1070 IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS LAW</span></b><span style="line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt; ">,</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "></div><br><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Being instead an ill-conceived and illegitimate product of state sanctioned <a href="http://unpfip.blogspot.com/p/framework-of-dominance-preliminary_03.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">racial profiling</a> in the form of an unacceptable act of legislation, which is to the detriment of the common well being of all members of the <b>State of Arizona</b>, and which without recognition as law by the <b>Peoples of Arizona</b>, is hereby denounced and shall be defied in the</span></font><b><span style="line-height: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20pt; "></span></b></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://cdb-tonatierra.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-mancha-de-arizona-pogrom-of.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b><span style="line-height: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20pt; ">Spirit of Nonviolent Peaceful Resistance</span></b><span style="line-height: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20pt; ">.</span></a></div><br><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">AZ SB 1070 a product of the tragically flawed legislative process of collusion and illegal manipulation of the powers of representative government to the benefit of an illegitimate and immoral power structure of historical complicity built upon the discriminatory principles of <a href="http://law.lclark.edu/faculty/robert_miller/website/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b>Manifest Destiny</b></a>, whose precedent in the form of the <a href="http://doctrineofdiscoveryforum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b>Doctrine of Discovery</b></a> we also now reject once more and shall continue to challenge as a deformation of our <b>COMMON HUMANITY</b>, which we share with All Our Relatives from the:</span></font></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="line-height: 31px; font-size: x-large; "><a href="http://unpfip.blogspot.com/2011/10/font-face-font-family-timesfont-face.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Four Directions of Mother Earth</span></b></a></span><span style="line-height: 31px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-large; ">.<br><br><font style="line-height: normal; ">###</font><br>Arizona State Capitol House of Representatives<br><a href="http://doctrineofdiscoveryforum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">Indigenous Peoples Forum on the Doctrine of Discovery</a><br>March 23, 2012<br><br>Huehuecoyotl:<br><a href="http://soundcloud.com/huehuecoyotl/tupak-huehuecoyotl" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); cursor: pointer; ">Wakeup Call From the Nightmare of Manifest Destiny</a><br></span><div><div></div></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.35em; ">In terms of jurisprudence, there's an attribute of what goes on today, when when we are discussing legalization or comprehension and comprehensive immigration reform it seems to be that we are taking the framing of the colonizing regimes and assuming and presuming that those are the instruments of legality in denial of the Right of Self Determination of the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155485/big_beer_brewers_like_anheuser-busch_are_drunk_on_greed_?akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f&rd=1&t=5">http://www.alternet.org/story/155485/big_beer_brewers_like_anheuser-busch_are_drunk_on_greed_?akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f&rd=1&t=5</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19232?t=4&akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_anheuser.jpg_640x426_150x107" alt="" width="150" height="107" border="0" style="border: none; "></a><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><p class="ecxheadline2" style="line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19232?t=5&akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Big Beer Brewers Like Anheuser-Busch Are Drunk on Greed</a></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">How the beer lobby is taking advantage of addiction. <a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19232?t=6&akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f" class="ecxreadmore" target="_blank" style="line-height: 11px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(202, 133, 0); cursor: pointer; font-size: 9px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; ">READ MORE</a></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="2" color="#4D4D4D" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; ">Jim Hightowe</i></font></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="2" color="#4D4D4D" style="line-height: normal; "><i style="line-height: 17px; "><br></i></font></p></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155424/pharoah_bloomberg%3A_paying_workers_enough_to_live_is_%27communism%27?akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f&rd=1&t=13">http://www.alternet.org/story/155424/pharoah_bloomberg%3A_paying_workers_enough_to_live_is_%27communism%27?akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f&rd=1&t=13</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><table width="415px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="line-height: 17px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19234?t=11&akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_1337174663_mayorbloomberg.jpg_640x955_95x68" alt="" width="112" height="81" border="0" align="left" style="border: none; "></a></td><td><font color="white" style="line-height: normal; ">-</font></td><td valign="top"><p class="ecxheadline3" style="line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><font style="line-height: normal; "><a href="http://act.alternet.org/go/19234?t=12&akid=8811.16102.Z6jE_f" target="_blank" style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer; ">Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'</a></font></p><p style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><font style="line-height: normal; ">New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. 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margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">While the number of workers over the traditional retirement age has risen, those 55 and under are doing worse.</p><ul style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0pt; list-style: none outside none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; "><li style="line-height: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 3px; "><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/bullet4x4.gif" border="0" vspace="2"> <a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACJI2ZAaeUipVPK2DQLdwXm5aCOOGlLpyrI5oQHMsck0eclGD963lx8nP8CT/Hp8SaC7Z9UCgqKgrngsd9o9WvENf8OWF/zmtCSMxMhFbycBbzFYg85hTQdiqbGkflTxajSh+6YpVRsJcJbR18NNf3UbRu3pxsfExIQ==&campaign_id=129&instance_id=15401&segment_id=33779&user_id=cb75b2a897725ed20d4752e3e3bc8e8a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); cursor: pointer; "><span class="ecxicon ecxgraphic"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/multimedia/icons/graphic_icon.gif" alt="Graphic" width="11" height="11" border="0" style="border: none; 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cursor: pointer; ">http://labornotes.org/2012/05/new-york-nurses-take-back-their-union-push-safe-staffing</a><br><br>New York nurses upended the 100-year power imbalance<br>between bedside nurses and nurse managers yesterday,<br>voting to bar supervisors from elected office in the<br>New York State Nurses Association.<br><br>NYSNA simultaneously launched a public campaign to make<br>New York the second state that legally mandates<br>staffing levels for nurses, pushing a nurse-to-patient<br>ratio bill similar to one adopted in California in<br>2004.<br><br>Thursday's one-two punch, at a mass meeting attended by<br>2,400 members, showcased the reform agenda promoted by<br>a slate of nurses who took over NYSNA leadership last<br>fall. "This has been a long time coming," said Pat<br>Holloman, a veteran NYSNA member from Mount Sinai<br>hospital. "After so many false starts and stops, it's<br>hard to believe we made it."<br><br>Members of the Staffing, Security, and Strength slate<br>ran for office pledging to take a more aggressive stand<br>against hospital management and to make structural<br>changes that would put the union squarely in the hands<br>of the staff nurses who comprise 99 percent of the<br>association's membership.<br><br>Earlier this year the new leaders made good on the<br>first part of the platform, launching a coordinated<br>contract campaign that shook up management at four of<br>New York's busiest hospitals in January. The union beat<br>back a laundry list of concessions.<br><br>Split Personality<br><br>The bylaw changes that nurses approved are the product<br>of many years of struggle inside the union, against a<br>bizarre structure that often left the union hamstrung.<br><br>Because of a holdover from the days of professional<br>associations that pre-dated nurse unionism, nurse<br>managers were eligible to serve on the NYSNA board of<br>directors. Indeed, nurse managers frequently controlled<br>the board.<br><br>Managerial involvement in unions is, of course,<br>prohibited by labor law. To stay within legal bounds,<br>the board of directors couldn't oversee the central<br>work of the organization--union representation,<br>organizing, and bargaining--despite the fact that the<br>lion's share of NYSNA's resources came from union<br>members and was spent on union activity.<br><br>The board could not debate or discuss the union's<br>future or vote on any matters relating to the union.<br>That left union functions, including decision-making<br>over bargaining strategy, resource allocation and what<br>grievances and arbitrations to invest time and money<br>in, controlled by staff.<br><br>Elected leaders were marginalized. The union had a<br>delegate assembly composed of bedside nurses, which<br>ostensibly set policy, but as an advisory body without<br>control of the union's resources and agenda, it was<br>ignored.<br><br>By voting to give power to leaders elected by bedside<br>nurses, New York is following the lead of nurses in<br>many states, from Massachusetts to California.<br><br>The tension between staff nurses and managers bubbled<br>up in most statewide nursing organizations over the<br>past 20 years, driving many to abandon the American<br>Nurses Association. The 115-year-old professional<br>association formulates standards for nursing practice,<br>and opposed nurse unionism for years. ANA includes<br>managers in its ranks and leadership.<br><br>Such divisions fueled the creation of National Nurses<br>United (AFL-CIO) in 2009, bringing together unions in<br>California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and<br>Minnesota with the United Association of Nurses,<br>formerly the union arm of the ANA.<br><br>The ability of the thousands of NYSNA nurses to chart<br>their own course, ensuring that patient care and<br>bedside nursing are the priority of the organization,<br>is a reminder that unions can change based on member<br>involvement. Mary Fitzgerald, a case manager at<br>Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, said, "Nurses<br>are so pumped that their voices are being heard."<br><br>The next step is a campaign for safe staffing, learning<br>from the California model that has improved patient<br>safety and quality of care by limiting the number of<br>patients per nurse.<br><br>NYSNA members adopted a staffing ratios bill as their<br>top legislative priority for 2013, but leaders know the<br>only way to achieve their goal is to mobilize thousands<br>of members, allied organizations, and communities to<br>share their vision--and fight for it.<br><br>"The members are more involved than I've ever seen<br>them," said Marva Wade, an OR nurse in Manhattan. "Now<br>the real work starts."<br><br><br><br><br>New York nurses shift to union-style format<br><br>The 37,000-member New York State Nurses Association<br>voted Thursday to become more like a traditional labor<br>union than a professional association.<br><br><a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120517/HEALTH_CARE/120519887" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120517/HEALTH_CARE/120519887</a><br><br>By Daniel Massey<br><br>May 17, 2012 3:51 p.m.<br><br>Following a leadership shakeup last fall, members of<br>the 37,000-member New York State Nurses Association<br>voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve bylaw changes<br>that will transform the organization from a<br>professional association into a more traditional labor<br>union.<br><br>Members opted Thursday to give more power to elected<br>leaders to set the course of the union; to ban<br>supervisors from serving as union leaders; and to<br>replace the position of CEO with an executive director.<br><br>The association traditionally had a board that included<br>supervisors, which limited its ability to discuss union<br>issues. A delegate assembly made up of non-supervisory<br>nurses had only an advisory role.<br><br>"People wanted to change the structure so members can<br>have control over the organization," said Judy<br>Sheridan-Gonzalez, an emergency room nurse at<br>Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and a NYSNA vice<br>president. "Members are going to have a voice in their<br>union that they never had and it means the union can<br>aggressively pursue the issues that matter to them."<br><br>The limited opposition to the changes came mostly from<br>nurses worried that being a more traditional union<br>would mean the nurses were less professional.<br><br>Also Thursday, the union kicked off a campaign to get<br>the state Legislature to pass a law mandating<br>staff-to-patient ratios. The ratios are currently<br>negotiated via collective bargaining.<br><br>"Our union is unique," said Patricia Donahue, a nurse<br>from Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. "We speak for<br>ourselves, but we also speak for our communities and<br>our patients and their need for quality health care."<br><br>In a memo, the Greater New York Hospital Association<br>wrote that it "strongly opposes" the legislation.<br>"Requirements to comply with fixed, prescriptive and<br>arbitrary staff-patient ratios may lead to closure of<br>nursing units because of a shortage of appropriately<br>trained nursing staff," the Association argued.<br><br>Bruce McIver, who has negotiated contracts with NYSNA<br>as president of the League of Voluntary Hospitals, said<br>the changes will not affect his work.<br><br>"I don't think it means a whole lot [will be] different<br>for the industry," he said. "From the perspective I've<br>dealt with them, they were a pretty traditional union<br>anyway."<br><br>Labor experts agreed the vote wouldn't change the<br>union's relationship with the industry, but said it<br>raised interesting questions about the future of nurse<br>unions in the city. About 6,000 nurses in the area are<br>represented by 1199 SEIU, which has historically<br>believed in one union for all health care workers.<br><br>"The question is, what happens to nurses in New York?"<br>one labor expert asked. "Do you continue to have<br>competing nurse unions?"<br><br>____________________________________________<br><br>PortsideLabor aims to provide material of interest to<br>people on the left that will help them to interpret the<br>world and to change it.</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></pre></div><div>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</div><div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155444/return_of_the_indignados%3A_spain%27s_anti-austerity_movement_marks_a_year_of_protest?akid=8809.16102.CBwBzz&rd=1&t=8">http://www.alternet.org/story/155444/return_of_the_indignados%3A_spain%27s_anti-austerity_movement_marks_a_year_of_protest?akid=8809.16102.CBwBzz&rd=1&t=8</a>
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