Repost from Counterpunch re Pacifica - KPFK too involved (tags)
Excerpts from a recent article about the happenings to Pacifica, the holder of KPFK and other 4 stations nationwide. Recent upheavals and attempts at 'take-overs' and resistances and wild stories of in-fighting...continue...on....
Austerity has never worked (tags)
It’s not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession [...]
Nepotism is the policy when hiring cops (tags)
Damn smart policy! Why risk hiring an outsider who could accidentally turn out to be an honest ethical cop and mess up things. But on the other hand isn’t an honest ethical cop an oxymoron? Yes Tempe should keep its current police policy of nepotism in hiring cops. Barb Carter needs someone to go to next time her son gets popped with 40 kilos of weed.
Vista City Council Votes to Regulate Day laborers (tags)
Vista votes to regulate day labor employers
Democrats target illegal immigration (tags)
Measure would hold employers accountable...impose fines and possible jail time for corporate leaders
discrimination lawsuits
Study showing SOS is attacking GOOD people (tags)
SOS is Opposed in Glendale, Again. (tags)
On Saturday, January 7, members of Save Our State participated in the National Day of Action for “Immigration Reform” by sending a contingent of their top thugs to the Glendale day labor hiring center/Home Depot location. Several other actions took place including but not limited to locations in Santa Monica, Rancho Cucamonga and Lake Forest.
Free Market Idiocy and Easy Money in the Big Easy (tags)
The federal government is paying $200 billion to bring in outside companies to rebuild New Orleans, while hundreds of thousands of the city’s evacuees languish in shelters across the country, jobless and penniless. What’s wrong with this picture?
SOS to Protest at Local Arts Festival (tags)
The information below was taken from the SOS website. They have gone public with the protest details because infiltrators within SOS have already leaked the information.
Minute Men Target Laguna Beach Day Laborers (tags)
**Please Circulate**
Payrolls plunge 93,000, but unemployment rate edges down (tags)
Catch this: Payrolls plunge 93,000, but unemployment rate edges down. Hellloooooo! The number of people receiving a paycheck goes down but unemployment is down? I don't think so. The two are mutually contradictory.
Strikers as Terrorists? (tags)
June 27, 2002 A CounterPunch Exclusive Strikers as Terrorists? Ridge Calls Longshoremen's Chief by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Homeland Security & Union Busting (tags)
In a CounterPunch exclusive, Alexander Cockburn shows how the Bush Administration's phony and fascist "War on Terrorism" is being waged against decent working people here at home.
NOW Campaigning to Dissuade CNN from Hiring Rush Limbaugh (tags)
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with NOW president Kim Gandy, who explains why her group is working to stop CNN from giving Limbaugh a larger audience(A RealAudio Version of this interview may be found At http://www.btlonline.org) .