Archive for 2009

AFL-CIO: U.S. Jobless Rate Shocking: 15.7 Million Workers Unemployed

Stunningly bad news on the nation’s jobless rate today: Unemployment worsened in October to 10.2 percent, a huge jump from 9.8 percent in September. That’s 15.7 million jobless workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Reclaiming TARP, Reclaiming Public Housing

The Land and Housing Action Group maintains that all of the properties purchased with public funds via the TARP program constitute public goods that must be utilized to fulfill a public need. To be more direct, we maintain that these homes are now in fact public housing, and that they must be used as such to fulfill the US government’s human rights obligation to provide adequate housing to all the citizens and residents under its jurisdiction.

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Campaign for Solidarity Day III in DC

Campaign for Solidarity Day III in DC Next Spring to Demand Jobs, Peace, Affordable Health Care For All and Ending Foreclosures and Evictions

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SF Chapter, California Faculty Assn: Raise Taxes on Wealthy, Corps

While California has one of the richest economies in the world, education, health care and social services have been chronically underfunded in this state for decades. This decline has resulted in large part from a steady reduction in corporate taxes.

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TAX THE RICH! A Strategy to Defend Public Education

“There are effectively two tax systems in America: one for the very rich and one for the rest of us. Income from stock dividends and capital gains, which makes up a disproportionate amount of the earnings of the very rich, is taxed at 15 percent.”

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Troy Labor Council Calls For National March!

The Troy Area Labor Council AFL-CIO calls upon the AFL-CIO to organize a national march on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Health Care Justice, to stop the wars and to use the resources freed up to end the jobs and health care crisis here at home.

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SF 10/26: The Assault on the Public Sector & Charting a Course for Progressive Taxation

Addressing the failure of government to adopt priorities that provide and maintain the infrastructure of employment, education, health care, housing, and parks, and which taxes everybody but the corporations & the rich.

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We Must Fight For Our Own Interests and Demand that the Economy Operate in the Interests of the Majority, Not in the Interests of a Small, Obscenely Rich Minority

We think it is crucial to mount a campaign directed at all the diverse issues that are economically crippling working people. In this way we can create a broad, powerful movement. In unity there is strength.

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The GM-UAW Agreement and the G20 “Global Jobs Pact”

The role of the trade union movement is not to become a partner of the bosses, or to help make their corporations “more competitive” in the global economy.

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You Can’t Bail Out Wall Street AND Main Street at the Same Time!

BY ALAN BENJAMIN
[Note: The following talk was presented by Alan Benjamin to the May 9 Teach-In in San Francisco to "Bail Out Working People -- NOT the Banks!" Benjamin is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council and is a co-chair of the Council's Economic Crisis Committee. This talk was [...]