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Fletcher jr.: Apartheid in South Africa and Israel
Video, October, 23 2007
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Bill Fletcher discusses Apartheid-era South Africa and compares it with Apartheid-like conditions in Israel today. He is a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College, in NYC, an ex-CEO of the TransAfrica Forum, and a former assistant to the AFL-CIO's ...
Fletcher jr.: Senator Obama, Black America and the War(s)
Znet Article, October, 06 2007
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Recognizing the historic significance of the Presidential campaign of Senator Barak Obama and th...
Fletcher jr.: Labor Day without Labor?
Commentary, September, 06 2007
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I am sure that you have noticed this as well. The tendency has been underway for years, though at certain moments it seems to reverse itself. Labor Day takes place with little mention of labor. I donÕt mean that unions are not mentioned. I mean...
Fletcher jr.: Environmental Crisis and Despair
Commentary, August, 28 2007
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I heard about the conversation a few months ago. It took place between my 18 year old daughter and some of her friends. Her friends had concluded that they would not permit THEIR children to have children because they believed that by that time ...
Fletcher jr.: Accountability, John Conyers and the Impeachment Controversy - Impeachment Strategy Debate Part 3
Znet Article, August, 21 2007
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Accountability, John Conyers and the Impeachment Controversy - Impeachment Strategy Debate Part 3
Fletcher jr.: Another Side to Race and Immigration
Znet Article, July, 30 2007
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It really hit me in the 1980s while living in Boston. At that time the southern Irish economy was a complete mess. ...
Fletcher jr.: Hiring picketers???
Commentary, July, 30 2007
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You may have seen the same article as I did. The Carpenters Union, it said, was hiring homeless people to walk picket lines where there is a labor dispute. Now, I must confess, the article did not come as a complete surprise. I had heard whispe...
Fletcher jr.: Does it matter whether schools are desegregated?
Commentary, July, 04 2007
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The Supreme CourtÕs decision undermining school diversity and desegregation in the cases Parents Involved in Community Schools v Seattle School District and Meredith v Jefferson County raises a series of questions including the general direction o...
Fletcher jr.: Choices for Black labor
Znet Article, June, 23 2007
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Choices for Black labor
Fletcher jr.: Palestine: Tears of Despair, Tears of Anger
Commentary, June, 21 2007
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As we witness Palestine further divide itself in the midst of a Hamas/Fatah factional split, I have felt both despair and anger. The reasons for the despair should be obvious. The Palestinian people are no closer to national self-determination t...
Fletcher jr.: The Posada Carrilles Case: Travesties on top of travesties
Commentary, June, 01 2007
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Each day in observing the Bush administration further implode I feel as if I am watching a sick comedy routine. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez gets caught fibbing as he explains the purge of Justice Department Attorneys; co-architect of the il...
Fletcher jr.: Anti-Immigrant in Black Face?
Znet Article, May, 26 2007
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The picture in the ad ...
Fletcher jr.: Questions for Candidate Obama
Znet Article, May, 15 2007
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Senator Barack Obama h...
Fletcher jr.: Why should employers have a role in deciding whether workers have unions?
Commentary, May, 04 2007
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Anti-worker forces have developed a very interesting tactical approach to the demand of workers to join or form unions. They yell "democracy." Let me explain how it works.
Fletcher jr.: A Guy Named "Bob":
Znet Article, April, 27 2007
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Over the years I have ...
Fletcher jr.: A challenge facing pro-Palestinian politics in the USA
Commentary, April, 19 2007
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A national march and rally sponsored by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is scheduled to be held in Washington, DC June 10th. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the "6 Day War" between Israel and several Arab states, and the resul...
Fletcher jr.: Reconsidering "Black Politics"
Znet Article, January, 22 2007
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The Michael Steele 2006 Senatorial campaign in Maryland posed the question front and center of what does one mean by “Black Politics?†Does “Black polit...
Fletcher jr.: The 'I Am Fed Up' Vote:
Znet Article, November, 13 2006
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This election clearly represented both a repudiation of Bush but also very intense anger with the environment that has been building in the USA over the last several years. Looking at some of the polling results points to the fact that 36% of th...
Fletcher jr.: Evo Morales, Bolivia, And Lessons For Us All
Znet Article, February, 03 2006
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The recent electoral victory of Evo Morales holds both immediate and potential significance. Morales, representing the indigenous majority, is the first indigenous leader to be elected as Bolivia's president. The fact that Morales compared Boliv...
Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...
