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Guimond: Re: BC Teachers' strike
Forum Post, April, 16 2012
Andre Guimond
Guimond's ZSpace page
Phyllis, Your comment "support for [teachers in BC] is not as close to unanimous as Ms Hawkins might like to think" seems unfair; the author never made such a claim. She noted that the "teachers were seeing widespread support"...
Reeve: BC Teachers' strike
Forum Post, April, 15 2012
Phyllis Reeve
Reeve's ZSpace page
It is important to note Nancy Hawkins' position as vice-president of the Teachers' Association. Hers is scarcely an objective account. On the other hand, perhaps an objective account is not possible in this unfortunate situation. Our ...
Kensington: Re: Wrong video
Forum Post, March, 24 2012
Andrew Kensington
Kensington's ZSpace page
The entire video is over here: Noam Chomsky speaks to Dutch activists on various topics - YouTube
Karman: arrogance?
Forum Post, March, 21 2012
Leen Karman
Karman's ZSpace page
perhaps someone can explain me - what is a "left" intellectual - who forced the disconnection, how, when - why do working people need left intellectuals to improve their life (I mean: the life of the working man, not the life of th...
Goodrich: Wrong video
Forum Post, March, 20 2012
John Goodrich
Goodrich's ZSpace page
The video does not seem to match the description . It's good but not what was advertised.
Howe: Complicity
Forum Post, March, 14 2012
Ken Howe
Howe's ZSpace page
Unions have of course evolved under capitalism and share in its contradictions. Corporations constantly bat for both sides, so we can expect unions will too.
Bohmer: Important article
Forum Post, March, 02 2012
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
Worth reading; in-depth analysis of attempt to further weaken Mexican labor.
Polson:
Forum Post, March, 02 2012
Rufus Polson
Polson's ZSpace page
Just goes to show there's plenty of pushback against "El Proceso", even or perhaps especially in government and ostensibly Bolivarian circles. I hope the workers win this one. I'll be looking for news on this subject,...
Calley: Oliver Stone where are you?
Forum Post, February, 26 2012
Charles Calley
Calley's ZSpace page
The great strike at Lawrence, Mass. in 1912 would make a great movie. The wealthy mill owner declared that the mill was "strike proof" because the workers were isolated ethnically and spoke 19 different languages. But Joe Hil...
Szczepanczyk: Press Release from UE
Forum Post, February, 26 2012
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
Here's a press release from UE on the end of this occupation: http://chicago.indymedia.org/node/226
Jones: Fork in the Road
Forum Post, February, 26 2012
David Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
Had the AFL listened to the IWW and adopted industrial unionism and a committment to change the structure of society labor would not be decimated, as it is today. Their anti-war (WWI) stance hurt them but Mc Carthyism was really the death blow, w...
Rissler: Venezuela, which one?
Forum Post, February, 04 2012
Mike Rissler
Rissler's ZSpace page
This article is a good example of why ZNET is so important, along with a handful of other internet sources. We never here in the U.S. hear anything positive or progressive about Venezuela in the media, mainstream. And, whenever I run i...
Houston: Create a new national party
Forum Post, January, 28 2012
Nicholas Houston
Houston's ZSpace page
Given the on-going lamenting of the lack of commitment of Obama and the Democrats to the union movement why do unions continue to support the Democrats? Surely the time has come to direct the money and support elsewhere. Surely enough time has pas...
Rissler: This sounds right
Forum Post, December, 25 2011
Mike Rissler
Rissler's ZSpace page
For the past year or more, whenever I have been in a Walmart store I have started up a brief conversation with a worker or two. I don't like to shop at Walmart, but occasionally I have. The work environment of Walmart is obvious to...
Emersberger: I strongly agree with Cooke
Forum Post, December, 15 2011
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
The Occupy movement took off becaue it picked an incredibly vulnerable target (the totally unmasked and bailed out financial industry) and a tactic that proved impsosible for the corporate press to ignore. It held its ground. Th...
Jones: Depends
Forum Post, December, 14 2011
David Jones
Jones's ZSpace page
It really depends on your notion of how deep the crisis is that sparked Occupy in the first place. The modest demands you list have been around since the 1970's and everyday (for all these years) we get a mailbox full of pitches by...
Emersberger: Right on target
Forum Post, November, 21 2011
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
Very well put "There is plenty of room for Occupy to prove its political independence by putting forth demands that will discredit the Democrats and lead Labor towards campaigns that the majority of working people will join, making Occupy/...
Persaud: Education re worker-controlled industries.
Forum Post, November, 18 2011
Ken Persaud
Persaud's ZSpace page
It is imperative that programs re worker -controlled models for wealth creation be instituted in political science studies in college and universities. An OWS in scholars and students should begin action for a complete transformation in the ...
Moorey: find.coop
Forum Post, November, 17 2011
Crip Moorey
Moorey's ZSpace page
A useful new resource http://find.coop
Stern: tens of millions needed anyway
Forum Post, November, 08 2011
Jerome Stern
Stern's ZSpace page
I disagree with this analysis. I believe the mainstream parties in all, or most, western countries, are immune to ordinary pressure politics, when it comes to their shared commitment to neoliberalism. As Chomsky and others have noted, the New Deal...
