Posted on 09/16/2009 12:44:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The ACORN-linked, “public option”-mongering Service Employees International Union has its own black eye to contend with. A former official with SEIU Local 1000 in California was slapped with a 25-year prison sentence for charges of child molestation and making/possessing child pornography. News10 reports [1] a troubling angle:
Jaime Enrique Feliciano, who served as president of Service Employees International Union Local 1000 representing thousands of Sacramento-area state workers, had previous convictions for child molestation and failure to register as a sex offender.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Wowie-zowie! Wonder when we get to see the vids on SEIU?????!!
THAT'S RACIST! Off to Sensitivity Camp with you!!!
Don’t forget...where you find SEIU, you find AARP.
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Immigration...healthcare...ALL the same enforcers....
SEIU & AARP....FYI
“AARP does not operate a PAC, but its employees gave candidates, committees and parties $53,200, with Democrats receiving 90 percent of that.”
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/02/special-interests-to-listen-ca.html
SEIU & AARP...joined at the hip and helping write amnesty/healthcare legislation. AARP uses your dollars to fund the likes of:
MALDEF - Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund
AARP says: “”Anybody who looks at immigration has to look at aging,” says Harry R. Moody, director of academic affairs at AARP. “First, immigration affects the age structure of society” by adding younger members to the population, he says. “Second, the people who do hands-on care work are immigrants. Look at our nursing homes! We have an image of people picking tomatoes — that’s not the whole story. Immigrants are the front-line caregivers.”
http://www.maldef.org/truthinimmigration/camarota_asks_how_many_americans09072008/index.html
& http://www.americanpatrol.com/MALDEF/Contributors-2002-2003.html (Fannie Mae gives to them, too!)
AARP also contributes to LULAC
La Raza
http://www.nclr.org/section/awards
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/03/the-left-wing-mortgage-counseling-racket/
And from AARP’s ‘Latino’ magazine....
http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/presence/index.html
Meet AARP’s New CEO: A. Barry Rand
A. Barry Rand, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Howard University and a nationally recognized agent for social change, has been tapped as AARP’s new chief executive officer. He will become the organization’s first African American CEO when he assumes the position in April.
AARP Welcomes Jacob Lozada
AARP Board member Jacob Lozada gives AARP Segunda Juventud readers his perspective on issues facing U.S. Hispanics and how he hopes to boost AARP’s profile in his native Puerto Rico.
AND AARP works hand in hand with the SEIU. They are the ones formulating the legislation that the dems are pushing.
“– AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU, which together represent more than 50 million Americans, today took another groundbreaking step for their “Divided We Fail” group by jointly delivering endorsed principles for health information technology (IT) legislation to Congress.
http://www.businessroundtable.org/press_release/aarp_business_roundtable_and_seiu_deliver_end
Where’s the Racist Kid?
They sure suckered Granny
Thanks Aunt B- it’s exhausting keeping up with all the connections...
Ohhhh..to be a fly on the wall in these offices to learn how this culture operates- how does it happen? Are there meetings at a higher level that pass down policies and procedures stated in ambiguous ways...or do they deliberately hire people who will look the other way- or never look at all.
“Ohhhh..to be a fly on the wall in these offices to learn how this culture operates- “
We would probably have a heart attack if we knew half the truth!
SEIU is the same group as ACORN.
I’m thinking that Glenn Beck has them next on his firing range.
This is an interesting article. They picked up my article with the AARP info I posted.
http://waltjr.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/new-aarp-chief-gave-big-to-obama-and-seiu-connections/
New AARP chief gave big to Obama and SEIU connections….
I was thinking, a good way to usurp the Republic would be to unionize government workers. Then set up “employment” contacts that are a front to a radical political agenda. I’m glad that can’t happen in the USA.
The American public should demand that impeachment hearings should start in Congress now !!!
I've been tracing their pension fund and law firms.
bump
Geez, what is it with these guys?
I threw away my AARP application. Into the circular file wit ya.
SEIU is nothing but a bunch of thungs, which grew out of a union for janitors.
“I threw away my AARP application. Into the circular file wit ya.”
I got a petition from them the other day with contacts to my senators/rep to SUPPORT HEALTH Care reform...of course they SAY they don’t advocate a position...right! Anyway, I reworded it crossing out their talking points and inserted mine and faxed it to my senators/rep & AARP. That was fun.
Thanks for the info.....learned quite a bit about AARP that I did not know
They really seem to have huge ties with the illegal alien movement.
You are most welcome, UCF, please pass it around.
A Conversation with Eliseo Medina
Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
liseo Medina has served as international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) since 1996, when he made history by becoming the first Mexican American elected to a top post at the 1.8 million-member SEIU. Medina began his career as a labor activist in 1965 when, as a 19-year-old grape-picker, he participated in the historic United Farm Workers’ strike in Delano, Calif. His interests in strategic organizing brought Medina to SEIU in 1986 where he helped revive a local union in San Diego - building its membership from 1,700 to 10,000 in five years. Medina also has a deeply felt interest in SEIU’s work on immigration policies; when he was 10 years old, he immigrated to the United States from Mexico with his mother and siblings to join their father, who was an immigrant farmworker in the United States. In Los Angeles, he’s helped strengthen ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the labor movement to work on common concerns such as immigrant worker rights and access to health care .He spoke with Social Policy by phone this spring on immigration reform, the birth of an unprecedented movement, and his faith in civic participation changing the face of the American electorate. – Eds.
http://socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=1680
Case Study: “Chicago—Barak Obama Campaign”
-Madeline Talbott, Illinois ACORN
Madeline spoke about the U. S. Senate Primary Campaign of Barak Obama and his astounding victory on March 16th of this year. ACORN’s initial assessment was that the key to his victory would be the African American vote which put ACORN in a good position to make a real contribution in both voter registration and GOTV. Therefore last summer some 450 block leaders were chosen, resulting in 12,984 new registrants.
This was done as a coalition effort through the Chicago-based Grassroots Collaborative which brought a number of very active and energized community and labor groups to the joint effort. From a seven-person field in the Democratic Primary, Obama received a remarkable 53% of the vote. Among the Democratic challengers to Obama, probably the most prominent was Dan Hines who, among other things, split labor’s vote. The AFL-CIO endorsed Hines while SEIU, AFSCME, HERE, UNITE & the Teachers all endorsed Obama.
http://www.organizersforum.org/index.php?id=600
http://www.organizersforum.org/index.php?id=353
“Camp Ruckus” by Ben Winters
I have been to the revolution, and I have good news: It tastes fantastic. To clarify: I have been to “action camp,” a week-long holiday for the dissenting set, sponsored by the Ruckus Society, those modern masters of nonviolent civil disobedience noted lately for their prominent role in the protests against the WTO in Seattle, the IMF in D.C. and at the party conventions last summer. Three or four times a year Ruckus picks a fairly isolated locale, stakes some tents and digs in for a week’s worth of training/community building. In mid-March, I journeyed to Peace River campground in Arcadia, Florida, to join Ruckus and invited guests—88 activists, mostly of college age, 55 logistical and training staff, plus the delegation from camp co-sponsor Rainforest Action Network (RAN)—for the latest throwdown.
Read the entire article at http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2511/winters2511.html.
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. A description and historical examples of each can be found in volume two of The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp.
Go to the Albert Einstein Institution’s page to see the whole list of 198 methods.
Publisher’s Note
By Wade Rathke, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
’m writing this from the Delhi airport waiting lounge early on a hot Saturday evening. My flight to Washington is shortly after midnight and having run all over this great and frustrating city for the last several days from one meeting to another, it seemed strangely inviting and restful to pay the 30 rupees and sit out the waiting period until three hours before the flight when I could finally check in and start wending my way home. I could reflect on the progress I had made in supporting Reena Desai, ACORN’s India Campaign Director and the rest of our campaign staff, as we seemed to build real traction in the meetings here and earlier in Mumbai against the Wal-Mart and big retailers efforts to convince the government to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail. I re-read with interest Professor Adams’ report on the efforts the UFCW in Canada has made to organize Wal-Mart against huge odds to mixed results, and found myself recommitting to the task of trying to deal with this company before its size and power were as overwhelming.
http://socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=1677
Vigilant Watch: Anti-FDI in India
By Reena Desai and Wade Rathke
hether locally or globally, retail big box giants like Wal-Mart, depend for the success of their business model on constant and accelerated expansion. Natural limitations and consistent development delays in home markets have produced a steady drool from such retailers about the size and potential of huge, largely untapped, markets in new or developing countries.
When ACORN along with our original partners, WARN, the Wal-Mart Organizing Project, SARDI (South Asia Research and Development Institute), the AFL-CIO, and SEIU, first began talking to people in India, it was clear that this was the prize plum that everyone wanted to pick because of the size of the market (1.1 billion population) and the rise of the middle class spurting up around metropolitan areas throughout the country. We advocated a strategy that framed the company’s global expansion as equivalent to dealing with a local sitefight, just on a larger scale with a bigger map. In the United States many people understand that inserting a big box in the middle of their community will adversely impact neighborhood life. This awareness has translated into community demands that local concerns be addressed and reconciled to local standards and the values of good corporate citizenship be brought back to the community. We reasoned, the same could – and should – be said for countries.
Additionally, corporate expansion outside the United States has given rise to opportunities for “bargaining” for concessions by local interests around local issues. Labor rights and protections are certainly one of the best examples of the concessions that major retailers, including Wal-Mart have had to make. The United States and Canada are almost exceptional when looking at the lack of unionization. Wal-Mart was required to be and stay union in the United Kingdom (through a company purchase), Germany (a market it is now leaving), South Korea (a market it has now left), Brazil, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, and, most recently, China. Where the price of entry means unionization and labor protections, then Wal-Mart is all about business and sees dealing with unions as part of the acquisition cost of a new market, just the way they would see hiring land use lawyers to make applications to zoning and planning commissions in the United States. If Wal-Mart’s opposition to unions is ideological, it is an ideology that stops at the waterline of North America.
There are also additional interests that have to be met in opening new “country” markets, just as there should be in opening new Superstores in a big city. Sourcing is a huge issue, and one that Wal-Mart understands. In aggressively lobbying to open FDI in Retail in India, one of the biggest carrots that Wal-Mart has been waving is that it will increase its sourcing up to $4 Billion dollars from the current level, which is close to half of that amount at $2 Billion. All of this pales next to China, where Wal-Mart sources more than $20 Billion, so the concern in India should still rightly be whether or not opening the market to Wal-Mart is simply opening a portal allowing in a flood of more cheaply produced products from China into the Indian markets. We have been able to use the company’s silence on this issue very effectively in the campaign. In typical fashion Wal-Mart has also not responded to concerns from the Indian small traders’ lobby, which represents one of the largest employment sectors in the country with around 12 million small retail stores across India.
Initially, meetings were done by the campaign in Mumbai and Chennai in July 2005 by Ashutosh Saxena of SARDI, Jason Judd (then of the AFL-CIO and now managing the Wal-Mart campaign for the Change to Win federation), and Wade along with Dine’ Butler (see article in Social Policy issue #36/1). Response was favorable in Mumbai and enthusiastic, especially with the local traders’ federation, in Chennai. We were convinced that there were significant local concerns and political alliances that could be created if there was sufficient campaign support. Working with SARDI, ACORN then partnered to create the India FDI Watch website and the initial campaign apparatus with contract staff based in Delhi and Chennai. Adding Reena Desai in Mumbai, as the campaign director in 2006, has allowed the campaign to scale up to the level necessary to deal with the increasing dominance of the FDI issue in local and national debate and support the growing movements especially of small traders opposing the loosening of FDI restraints.
http://socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=1700
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