Forum: Equality and Jobs for the 99 %

  Equality and Jobs for the 99%:  Economic Justice for All A public event sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America  November 11, 2011; 7:00 p.m.  Location: St. Stephen and Incarnation Church, 1525 Newton NW, Washington, D.C. Speakers   Eliseo Medina – International Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Sarita Gupta – Executive Director, Jobs with Justice John Nichols – [...]

Koch Brothers, Tea Party, Attacks on Unions, Wisconsin

Koch industries, the second largest privately-held company in the US, is an oil refining, chemical, paper products and financial services company with revenues of a $100bn a year. Virtually every American household has some Koch product – from paper towels and lumber, to Stainmaster carpet and Lycra in sports clothes, to gasoline for cars. The [...]

Trumka: Proposed Super Committee Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Unacceptable

by Mike Hall AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today reaffirmed that the AFL-CIO opposes any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits or to the federal contribution to Medicaid and he criticized Senate Democrats on the “Super Committee” for proposing—according to news reports—hundreds of billions of cuts. He says that while Republicans proposed even bigger and [...]

Temple YDS Helps Shows Eric Cantor the Door

by Andrew Porter Many prominent figures on the Right have condemned the peaceful Occupy Wall Street movement for attacking their friends in the financial sector. Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called OWS a “growing mob.” As the movement grew, Cantor softened his position. He even decided to give a speech about the problems of [...]

Occupy Wall Street and America’s Democratic Tradition

by Amy Dean I was recently talking with some friends who work at the Chicago Board of Trade. Hearing the opinions voiced by Occupy Wall Street protesters, the traders agreed that they’d seen disturbing changes within their industry. While they might have written off criticisms 15 years ago, they’ve since watched the financial sector become [...]

Libya: The Road Ahead

ITUC Online With the formal “declaration of liberation” by Libya’s interim leaders on 22 October, the enormous task of building a democratic and just society, and an economy which delivers decent work and economic security for Libyans and foreign workers alike, can begin.  The interim authorities, and the international community, bear a heavy responsibility to [...]

New “Unity Unions” Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses

by Amy Dean The last five years have been grim and isolating ones for immigrants and working people, right? Overall, this may be the case, but if you talk with organizers at Fuerza Laboral, an independent workers’ center in Rhode Island founded in 2006, you might get a different impression. Despite difficult times, the group [...]

It’s hard to hate these occupiers

by Harold Meyerson By the hoary conventions of American politics, Americans should fear and loathe Occupy Wall Street. The occupiers are vaguely countercultural, counterculturally vague. They are noisy. They are radical. They offer no solutions, though they are prey to the damnedest ideas. (Anti-consumerism! Anti-leaderism!) They are an extra-parliamentary menace, mocking the very possibility of [...]

Labor Joins Occupy Missouri

Hugh Mcvey and Herb Johnson What started on Wall Street has spread to nearly 1000 cities and towns in the United States and around the world. This movement is a direct response to the stark income inequality gap between the richest one percent, and the struggling 99 percent of workers. It is time for Wall [...]

The One Percent and US

by Leo Casey Over the last few weeks, a small team of New York City building inspectors descended upon UFT headquarters, responding to a mysterious 311 call. Our building has been placed under police surveillance, and at times police have been posted as guards at our doors. The One Percent appears to be a tad [...]