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• Despite unresolved allegations against FW Russell, City renews waste disposal contract

  
  Somerville Voices — Authority: 136
  Last week, the Board of Aldermen extended the City’s contract with FW Russell for another year plus 5 more under a new contract despite concerns stemming from a 2-year-old investigation by AG Coakley’s office into the waste disposal company’s labor practices. The company was selected for offering the lowest ...
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• Gray Panthers sit in Pelosi’s office for Single Payer

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Demonstration outside the sit-in for single-payer at Pelosis office About a dozen single payer activists, including three Gray Panthers, sat in at Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s SF office on November 3rd, demanding she honor her promises on single payer. Pelosi had promised that the House health reform bill, HR 3962, would ...
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• Free Lynne Stewart!

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Protest the Jailing of Lynne Stewart.   One of the first victims of the Patriot Act, she she was convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism in the course of her legal work. Based on her years of defending the most exploited, and government infringement of attorney-client confidentiality in the case, she was ...
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• Rally: Lift the freeze on low pay

  
  The Standard — Authority: 613
  Just a reminder, thousands of hospital support staff, school support staff and other low-paid public sector workers are rallying in 27 centres nationwide today to tell the government to lift the freeze on low pay. The rallies are taking place from 12.30-1.30. If you can, head on down in your lunch break and show your ...
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• Flawed Health Reform Could Hurt Dems in 2010—Part I

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Flawed Health Reform Could Hurt Dems in 2010—Part I – Working In These Times Flawed Health Reform Could Hurt Dems in 2010—Part I Working In These Times, Wednesday, November 25 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (R) hugs Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) during a news conference after the Senate approved a ...
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• A New United Movement Stops Mexico for a Day

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  San Francisco Gray Panther Earl Gilman has been in Mexico for several weeks reporting on the massive strike of Mexico City workers in the municipal electrical power system which was recently privatized, leading to firing of the workers, who were in one of Mexico’s most militant unions.  The workers took over a ...
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• Open Letter to John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand

  
  UNITYblog — Authority: 133
  26 November 2009Kia ora Mr Key,Weve never met, but since Im a longtime socialist and youre Minister for the Security Intelligence Service, you have undoubtedly read SIS reports about me and my fellow promoters of a more democratic, just and ecological society.However, its in your capacity as Prime Minister that Im ...
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• Social Security Agency To Investigate If California Is Illegally Denying Social Security Disability and SSI Claims

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  California Disability Action Community Network,  November 23, 2009 Social Security Agency To Investigate If California Is Illegally Denying Social Security Disability and SSI Claims Social Security Commissioner Says Furloughs of Federally Funded State Employees In Dept. of Social Services Who Help In ...
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• Pregnant Latina forced to give birth in shackles by Arpaio deputy

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Phoenix New Times, October 20, 2009 Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles After One of Arpaio’s Deputies Racially Profiled Her Forced to give birth in shackles The bleeding kept her up all night, drenching her black-and-white-striped jail uniform. Alma Chacón feared her baby ...
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• Former maritime leader Trevor Hanson appointed Alliance Party spokesperson

  
  Alliance Party of New Zealand — Authority: 100
  The Alliance Party has announced its new spokesperson for employment relations, transport and fisheries as former waterfront and maritime leader Trevor Hanson . Mr Hanson recently retired from his position as General Secretary of the Maritime Union of New Zealand, and previous to that General Secretary of the ...
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• California Democratic Party to says to Obama, Get Out of Afghanistan

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Common Dreams,  November 16, 2009 Biggest State Party to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan By Norman Soloman This week begins with a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider. The California Democratic Party has just sent him a formal and clear message: Stop making war in ...
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• Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Huffington Post,  November 23, 2009 Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to ...
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• Israeli Jews and the one-state solution

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  The Electronic Intifada, November 10, 2009 Israeli Jews and the one-state solution Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won’t bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. — Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009. One of the most ...
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• Zero percent won’t pay the rent

  
  The Standard — Authority: 613
  If you can, get along to support the hospital support staff, the school support staff, and all the other low-paid public sector workers this Friday. (full size image here )
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• U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  The Business Insider, September 30, 2009 U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought Posted using ShareThis The newest economic inequality numbers, which ran counter to the expectations of almost  all experts , are frightening. The Associated Press released an article titled,  US ...
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• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  “For the Democrats, with the exception of John Conyers and a few others, they simply don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists and believe in the capitalist system that makes health care a commodity to be bought and sold. For them, health care is not a human right. … One minute ...
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• HCAN and Organizing for America continue the profit-making power of the insurance industry

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  HCAN and Organizing for America are following in the footsteps of organizations that are created every time health care reform is attempted. They promote incremental changes to the system and the legislation urgently (health reform can’t wait!) and passionately promoted is not designed to solve the crisis, but ...
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• workplace harassment on ‘entourage’

  
  save the assistants — Authority: 128
  Sometimes life really does imitate art…well, not that “Entourage” is art, but you get the idea. Just as his character Lloyd is mocked on the show by being called “The Gaysian,” his portrayer Rex Lee also gets shit from crew members while on set. Lee admitted to TMZ that he’s sometimes a target of jokes ...
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• On work: the peculiar state of the U.S. labor market, and more

  
  GlobalComment — Authority: 582
  The global economy seems to have climbed down off the ledge where it was perched for the last part of 2008 and beginning of 2009, teetering precariously on the verge of falling. Newspapers trumpet increases in productivity and GDP growth, and the banks are giving record bonuses. Yet unemployment numbers in the United ...
  6 days ago

• Reconcile U.S. football culture with progressive politics? Yeah, right

  
  GlobalComment — Authority: 582
  I’m writing from Eugene, Oregon, where I have come for my yearly reunion with college friends. Each year we meet to watch a University of Oregon football game, reliving the many games we watched in college. I love football. One of my first memories is of watching the 1979 NFC Championship game between the Los ...
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