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• Give Wal-Mart the Demerits They Deserve

  
  Wal-Mart Watch — Authority: 121
  I don’t know a Walmart executive who couldn’t use more pieces of flair. Luckily, MomsRising.org is on the case.  They are calling on Walmart to amend its unfair sick day policy through a new online petition, and there is a creative twist.  Sign the petition on their site and your letter will be given to ...
  5 days ago

• Speaking tomorrow, Thurs Nov 5, Sapporo Gakuin Dai 「法の下の平等と在住外国人」

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Speaking in Japanese tomorrow, FYI, at Sapporo Gakuin.Thursday November 5, 2009 1PM. ...
  1 week ago

• Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column: “Demography vs. Demagoguery”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Japan Times column: Thus "immigration," like "racial discrimination" (JBC, June 2), has become another taboo topic. One must not mention it by name, especially if you represent a government-funded think tank.Then, when you have whole branches of government studiously ignoring the issue (even though last June the ...
  1 week ago

• Final flight for Midwest Airlines Boeing 717 aircraft and crews

  
  Aircrew Buzz — Authority: 458
  by B. N. Sullivan The arrival of a Midwest Airlines Boeing 717-200 aircraft at Milwaukee last evening, November 2, 2009, marked what Midwest employees are calling the end of an era . Midwest flight MEP210, from Bostons Logan International Airport to Milwaukees General Mitchell International Airport was the ...
  1 week ago

• Is Walmart Spreading Swine Flu?

  
  Wal-Mart Watch — Authority: 121
  When you get sick, do you take the day off? You should, especially if you have the flu or other viruses that are easily spreadable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree, but Walmart, through its corporate policies, are not heeding that advice. In fact, a new mini report from the National Labor ...
  1 week ago

• Philadelphia Center-Right Coalition Nov. 12 (Norquist/Freind)

  
  Pawatercooler.com — Authority: 145
  I am pleased to inform you that Philadelphia has been selected to host a monthly Center-Right Coalition meeting, following the hugely-successful model of Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). We will be one of the few non-state capital cities to have such a gathering.The kick-off meeting, which ...
  1 week ago

• Video- Child Labor: Problem in Our Own Backyard

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  Gobsmacked. More here.
  1 week ago

• Karl Rove attacks labor-backed candidates in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania- Great Reason to Vote

  
  Democratic Talk Radio Blog — Authority: 419
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• Mainichi: Chinese trainees file complaint with labor bureau over 350 yen per hour overtime

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Mainichi: According to the complaint and other sources, the [Chinese "Trainee"] women each worked as many as 209 overtime hours per month, and about 2,000 hours per year. The 350-400 yen per hour the women claim they were paid for that overtime falls short of Nagasaki Prefectures minimum wage of 629 yen per hour, and ...
  1 week ago

• Timberline Expands Land Position at Its Butte Highlands Gold Project

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 434
  Timberline Resources Corporation announced that it has acquired the mineral and surface rights to additional mineral claims adjacent to and nearby its Butte Highlands Gold Project joint venture. Timberline executed a lease agreement with an option to purchase four patented claims at its Butte Highlands Gold Project. ...
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• Mainichi: Numerous foreign trainees forced to work under harsh conditions in Japan, even to death

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Mainichi: The Justice Ministry has confirmed that a record 452 companies and other organizations that accepted foreign trainees were involved in illegal practices last year. About 60 percent of them involve violations of labor-related laws, including unpaid wages and overtime allowances.A survey conducted by the Japan ...
  2 weeks ago

• Angry taxpayers burn bank execs in effigy, demand end to using bailout dollars to fight bank reform

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 780
  Remember those summer protests against healthcare reform, when angry conservatives overwhelmed congressional town hall meetings with accusations that President Obama was a closet socialist? Well apparently the Right does not have a lock on voter rage. Today, for the third day in a row, taxpayers, mobilized against ...
  2 weeks ago

• Single payer protest at Cigna Glendale, CA

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Single-payer healthcare reform activists target CIGNA
  2 weeks ago

• Sakanaka Hidenori’s latest paper on assimilation of NJ now translated into English, full text

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Sakanaka Hidenori, head of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute and author of Nyuukan Senki (his experiences within Japans Immigration Bureau), has just had his most recent paper translated into English. Debito.org is proud to feature this paper downloadable in full here, with an excerpt immediately ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the Shadow of the Patriarch

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 755
  All dictators, from Creon onwards, are victims.­ --Gabriel García Márquez I. Many years later , in the course of writing his memoirs, Gabriel García Márquez was to remember that distant afternoon in Aracataca, in Colombia, when his grandfather set a dictionary in his lap and said, "Not only does this book ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tell Walmart’s new CEO: Do better!

  
  Wal-Mart Watch — Authority: 121
  Our friends over at American Rights at Work just sent out this email and we’re asking you, our supporters, to help them out. Here’s their email, check it out and then go send Mike Duke a letter . Low wages and unionbusting have been par for the course at Walmart. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Walmart ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great Western Minerals Group Engages Barr Engineering to Update Hoidas Lake Technical Report

  
  Mining Top News — Authority: 434
  Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. announce it has engaged Barr Engineering Company (”Barr”) of Minneapolis Minnesota to update the 43-101 Technical Report for the Company’s Hoidas Lake Project.Barr is an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting company involved with the development, management, ...
  2 weeks ago

• News of Great Recovery tempered by jobs data

  
  Olympia Business Watch — Authority: 121
  Todays announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that job losses in this recession are now at or near record levels surely tempers news of the Great Recovery. According to todays report, 5.2 percent of jobs have been lost in the U.S. since the start of the recession (December 2007). Here in Washington state, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Walmart fires Security Guard for chasing shoplifter

  
  Wal-Mart Watch — Authority: 121
  When we saw this story today, we were pretty interested. It seems a Walmart loss prevention officer (read security guard) was fired for chasing a man who he had witnessed steal some merchandise. It is not clear if he was fired for running after the man or because the man had a knife. We were interested because in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Huge rally outside Walmart store in New Jersey

  
  Wal-Mart Watch — Authority: 121
  Check out this article from the Hunterdon County Democrat about a Walmart rally planned for today. We’ll try to get some pictures up later in the day! A demonstration is planned for today at the new Walmart here, with some 300 to 400 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 1262 expected to ...
  3 weeks ago

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