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youtube.com - 5/6/2009

How Not to Join a Union (video)

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A step-by-step guide to the union process—how to form a union and how workers' efforts usually get thwarted. More here: http://www.americanprogressaction.org...

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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 5/3/2009

Union Power

— meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — I see a lot of liberal blogs crowing that Obama's really taking it to the hedge funds... who are holding out on the Chrysler bankruptcy.  Hedge fund managers, you see, have a civic duty to lose large amounts of other peoples' money in order to ... (more) Union Power

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Soviet Union

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 5/6/2009

How (Not) to Form a Union

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Some CAPAF colleagues have put together this informative animation on how incredibly difficult it is to form... a union under the current anti-worker, anti-organizing rules: This is why we need serious labor law reform. (more) How (Not) to Form a Union

Soviet Union

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How (Not) to Form a Union
Matthew Yglesias — Some CAPAF colleagues have put together this informative animation on how incredibly difficult it is to form a union under the current anti-worker, anti-organizing rules: This is why we need serious labor law reform. ...

How (Not) to Form a Union
Fired Up! Missouri — This video from CAP's American Worker Project breaks down the existing challenges for workers looking to organize pretty well: (via Matthew Yglesias)

Scritti Politti: May 7, 2009
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow discussed the ongoing saga of the torture memos, and how the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility recommended "'disbarment, but not prosecution' for Jay Bybee, Steven Bradbury, and John Yoo, as punishment for erecting the legal mechanisms that paved the way for the erection of the Bush administration's torture regime." Did you know that the OPR came to this conclusion after input from Bybee, Bradbury and Yoo, themselves? They were, and, as Daphne Eviatar reported, they were allowed to make comments, and the OPR was allowed to make revisions based upon their comments. And all of this ...

Eli Dansky: In Praise of Injustice (Accentuate the Negative)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — I'm not a political scientist. I don't run a website or have even cursory knowledge of basic html. I don't own any poster board. I also don't hold political office or a union card, I haven't been tortured, and I am a straight white dude who's getting married next month. I am perhaps unqualified to be holding forth on the state of activism and messaging in play across the broad fight for progress in this country. Though from the looks of the blogosphere, I am not uniquely unqualified. And hey, I'm Jewish, so I know a little something about laws that rob certain citizens of their rights. I learned about them in Hebrew School, where they'll also let ...