from GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Leah Fried of the UE, talks with Laura Flanders about the decision by Chicago factory workers to purchase the factory they once famously occupied when it was Republic Windows and Doors. Fried and Flanders spoke at Labor Notes 2012 in Chicago.
Se also: “Chicago Workers’ Economic Plan: Go Co-Operative!” by Laura Flanders, posted June 15, 2012 at www.thenation.com
from The Nation
Have the elite leaders of our meritocratic society failed us? Nation Editor-at-Large Chris Hayes speaks with Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel about the ways intelligence is used to detrimental ends, and how we can ensure it is used for good.
from the Center for American Progress
The Center for American Progress visited Wisconsin, one of a handful of states that have recently passed strict voter identification laws, to see how such laws disenfranchise voters
from Greenpeace USA
This video introduces the Bering Sea, and the animals who rely on it. Bad fishing practices have hurt this ecosystem, including the people who live near it.
To find out more about the issues facing the Bering Sea, take a look at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3762013D6511AE99&feature=edit_ok
from the Center for American Progress
Every day, far too many gay and transgender Americans are forced out of their jobs and into the ranks of the unemployed at a time when all families are struggling to stay afloat. Until Congress passes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) it will remain perfectly legal to fire someone based simply on their sexual orientation or gender identity in a majority of states in this country.
To learn more, go to http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/domestic/justice
from the Chicago Teachers Union
Visit ctunet.com/parents for information on the strike authorization vote.
from Democracy Now!
As European leaders scramble to address the sovereign debt crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues the austerity measures pushed by Germany, the United States and international creditors are only “going to make the countries weaker and weaker.” If European economies contract, Stiglitz predicts that “our economy [will] go down further into the hole. … Those policies then increase the probability of our weak economy tipping over into recession.” Stiglitz’s new book is “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future.” Stigliz continues: “Occupy Wall Street was a reflection of a lot of American’s perspective that our economic system is unfair. … There was a hope after the crisis, that government would fix things, it didn’t. Or didn’t do enough, and that combination of economic unfairness and a political system that doesn’t seem capable of correcting these injustices, I think is what motivated a lot of the Occupy Wall Street.”
from the Chicago Teachers Union
Chicago Public Schools parent Matt Farmer puts billionaire Board of Education member Penny Pritzker on trial at Chicago Teachers Union’s Stands Strong rally. Pritzker doesn’t seem to feel it is necessary to provide other people’s children with the same educational experience as hers.
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