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Posted on 06/13/2010 9:10:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Frustrated that federal lawmakers have stalled funding proposals aimed at staving off nationwide teacher layoffs and creating jobs, the NAACP and labor leaders are planning a massive protest march in Washington, D.C.
The planned "One Nation" march -- which is themed "Hope, Not Hate" -- will be a "forceful reminder to Congress" that the majority of voters who elected President Obama are still out there -- and they're still concerned about creating jobs, immigration reform and making sure minorities get a fair share of stimulus funding.
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Unfortunately my computer is old. What does the video depict? Thanks.
Yes siree! What has not worked in this nation ever? Let's continue it because it makes me feel good about myself.
Yeah! Suuuure!!!!
for supporting Obama,
Sincerely,
NAACP & Unions
There is an old adage.. If you took all the wealth in the world and gave it to the poor, the people who originally had the money would have it all back in just a few years.
That is what this “stimulus” money does. Give to poor people, they buy crack, crack dealer buys a Mercedes from a rich suburban auto dealer. Ends up in the hands of the same people it was stolen from originally. Do they invest in education? Open a small business? No, they blow it on stuff they don’t need. It’s not a lack of money. It’s a lack of ambition created by exactly what they are asking for here. Money for nothing.
Undercover Brother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1G4glp986Q&feature=related
A large lady demanding we work harder
... for her.
People say it must be a joke
Yeah, it is, I only know about 7 more just like her in LA;
she even has the mannerisms just right.
“the NAACP and labor leaders are planning a massive protest march in Washington, D.C.”
I wonder what, exactly, they are protesting?
Are they protesting affirmative action as implemented that gives blacks an advantage over anyone else in hiring, academia, and general social deference?
Are they protesting the wealth transfers that have disproportionately benefited (monetarily) blacks?
Are they protesting institutionalization of preferences for minority owned business under 8a that allows them to win contracts despite having higher costs?
Are they protesting enforcement of hate crimes disproportionately - when there is a black victim versus a victim of any other race, even when racial hatred is expressed directly by black criminals in the commission of crimes?
Really, I wonder what in the world they can be protesting....society has treated them with velvet gloves the past 30 years - deference, preference, munificence of society towards blacks has been enshrined as the highest calling of society.
We’ve named streets for, built monuments to, and erased history for, and declared black academics, poets, musicians, actors heroes for being black.
We’ve elected a president with no apparent qualifications other than his blackness.
We’ve institutionalized black legislative groups that are not socially acceptable for any other race.
What is it that we haven’t done for blacks that they could possibly protest?
Somebody tell me what we haven’t done - how are blacks victimized now? what is it they haven’t gotten because they were black that other people have because of their race?
I really do want to know......
May 21, 2010
the founders of this university renewed their commitment to pursue justice, to practice inclusiveness, and to promote the social and economic conditions that will not give rise to hate and violence.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Trumka calls for HOPE not hate
Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, has just given a speech in Florida where he spoke against racism, homophobia and the politics of hate. He concluded by saying ...(quote); we...are fighting for hope not hate....;"
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How ironic. /s
Hmmm, and Blacks only make up 13% of the US population, and they’re able to get away with this theft of real working Americans!
AFL-CIO leader promises support for Israel
November 2nd 2009
Speaking to the Jewish Labor Committee, AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka said:
[G]iven the traditions, the heritage, the commitment, and given the values Jewish workers have always brought to the labor movement, I don’t think it ought to come as any surprise that the Jewish community here – and around the world – has never had a stronger ally than the AFL-CIO. And tonight, let me tell you that, so long as I’m president, you will never have a stronger ally than the AFL-CIO. That’s why we’re proud to stand with the JLC to oppose boycotting Israel.
Brothers and sisters, there is only one way we’re going to stop the violence in the Middle East, and it’s not by bashing Israel; it’s by supporting President Obama’s peace initiative.
Yep Arkansas has that now thanks to Bill Halter. We will see how that works out.
Thanks for your time.
Same article has been written every year since I remember.
“Same article was written in 1964. Nothing has changed, except the bankrupting of our country.”
We seem to be stuck in a time warp. The ‘Progressives’ keep repeating the same old bullshit and so do the Republicans.
April 07, 2010
AFL-CIO President’s Speech on Public’s Anger (partial - more at link)
I am going to talk tonight about anger—and specifically the anger of working people. I want to explain why working people are right to be mad about what has happened to our economy and our country, and then I want to talk about why there is a difference between anger and hatred. There are forces in our country that are working hard to convert justifiable anger about an economy that only seems to work for a few of us into racist and homophobic hate and violence directed at our President and heroes like Congressman John Lewis. Most of all, those forces of hate seek to divide working people – to turn our anger against each other.
So I also want to talk to you tonight about what I believe is the only way to fight the forces of hatred—with a strong progressive tradition that includes working people in action, organizing unions and organizing to elect public officials committed to bold action to address economic suffering.
That progressive tradition has drawn its strength from an alliance of the poor and the middle class—everyone who works for a living. But the alliance between working people and public minded intellectuals is also crucial—it is all about standing up to entrenched economic power and the complacency of the affluent. It’s an alliance that depends on intellectuals being critics, and not the servants, of economic privilege.
I am here tonight at the Kennedy School of Government to say that if you care about defending our country against the apostles of hate, you need to be part of the fight to rebuild a sustainable, high wage economy built on good jobs – the kind of economy that can only exist when working men and women have a real voice on the job.
Our republic must offer working people something other than the dead-end choice between the failed agenda of greed and the voices of hate and division and violence. Public intellectuals have a responsibility to offer a better way.
President Obama’s economic recovery program has done a lot of good for working people—creating or saving more than 2 million jobs. But the reality is that 2 million jobs is just 18 percent of the hole in our labor market.
Our politics have been dominated by greed and the forces of money for a generation. Now, amid the wreckage that came from that experiment, we hear the voices of hatred, of racism and homophobia.
At this moment of economic pain and anger, political intellectuals face a great choice—whether to be servants or critics of economic privilege.
Working people want an American economy that creates good jobs, where wealth is fairly shared, and where the economic life of our nation is about solving big problems like the threat of climate change rather than creating big problems like the foreclosure crisis. We know that growing inequality undermines our ability to grow as a nation by squandering the talents and the contributions of our people and consigning entire communities to stagnation and failure. But despite our best efforts, we have endured a generation of stagnant wages and collapsing benefits—a generation where the labor movement has been much more about defense than about offense.
We in the labor movement have to challenge ourselves to make our institutions into a voice for all working people. And we need to begin with jobs. Eleven million missing jobs is not tolerable. That’s why we are fighting for the AFL-CIO’s five point jobs program—extending unemployment benefits, including COBRA health benefits for unemployed workers; expanding federal infrastructure and green jobs investments; dramatically increasing federal aid to state and local governments facing fiscal disaster; creating jobs directly, especially in distressed communities; and finally, lending TARP money to small and medium sized businesses that can’t get credit because of the financial crisis.
Government that acted in the interests of the majority of Americans has produced our greatest achievements. The New Deal. The Great Society and the Civil Rights movement — Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage and the forty-hour work week, and the Voting Rights Act. This is what made the United States a beacon of hope in a confused and divided world. In the end, I believe the health care bill signed into law last month is an achievement on this order, one we can continue to improve upon to secure health care for all.
But too many thought leaders have become the servants of a different kind of politics—a politics that sees middle-class Americans as overpaid and underworked. That sees Social Security as a problem rather than the only piece of our retirement system that actually works. A mentality that feels sorry for homeless people, but fails to see the connections between downsizing, outsourcing, inequality and homelessness. A mentality that sees mass unemployment as something that will take care of itself, eventually.
Let me be clear: There is no excuse for racism and hatred. All Americans need to unite against it. The labor movement must be a powerful voice against it. But you cannot fight hatred with greed. Working people are angry—and we are right to be angry at the betrayal of our economic future. Help us turn that anger into the energy to win a better country and a better world.
“Yes it has—the acceptance of single mothers who keep popping out babies keeping not only themselves in poverty but creating another 2 or 3 generations who think dependence on the government is the norm norm rather than personal responsibility.”
The ‘Great Society’ was a breeding program designed to destroy this country. It’s been very successful as far as I can determine.
“He concluded by saying ...(quote); we...are fighting for hope not hate....;”
In other words, if the cement overshoe fits, wear it.
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