10 Ways to Support the Troops

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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 5:37 PM PST

2006/11/18 · 17:37

I was inspired to post this by thereisnospoon's diary. Some of these were mentioned in the comments to that diary, but I figured it might be helpful to put them all in one diary.

Last week, I printed up copies of the following list of 10 Ways to Support the Troops and went and stood outside the local mall to hand them out, before going by the local VA to visit with and thank some vets. Anyway, here's the list, which I compiled from the resources offered on the website of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which everyone should check out. Read More

random conversation on the street: one more dem voter

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 14:17

I'm just posting this anecdote, because I think it shows how every day we all have opportunities to help motivate people to get out and vote for change.
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NYU grad union votes to strike

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 7:12 AM PST

2005/11/03 · 07:12

GSOC/Local 2110 UAW at NYU has voted to go on strike beginning next Wednesday, November 9th. Why should anyone care? Because GSOC is the first (and only) union of graduate employees at a private university to have won recognition and bargained a contract with its administration. GSOC's first contract expired at the end of August, and relying upon a 2004 NLRB decision that in effect stripped graduate employees at private universities of their legally recognized status as employees, the NYU administration has refused to return to the bargaining table.
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Tomorrow in NYC: Rally to support academic workers' rights

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 2:20 PM PDT

2005/08/30 · 14:20

Since the graduate employee strikes at Columbia and Yale in the spring, which garnered national media attention, the academic labor movement has drifted back into media obscurity. Until now. Currently, GSOC (Graduate Student Organizing Committee) Local 2110/UAW at NYU is the only graduate employee union with a collectively bargained contract at a private university. That contract expires tomorrow, August 31st, and the NYU administration has refused to come to the table. Graduate unions across the country, recognized and unrecognized, at public and private universities, along with labor leaders, elected officials, faculty, staff, community members, and undergraduates, are mobilizing to defend the rights of GSOC Local 2110/UAW. Anyone in the area who cares about higher education and workers' rights should, if they can, come by and join the fight. Tomorrow, from noon to 1pm, we will be rallying at:

NYU Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South (West 4th St. & LaGuardia Place)

Come join us. If you can't make it, look below for how to write to the NYU administration.

History and details after the jump.
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KR reports: No al Zarqawi meeting in Syria

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Sunday June 05, 2005 · 6:48 AM PDT

2005/06/05 · 06:48

The top story on the Knight Ridder homepage is Reports of terrorists meeting in Syria were flawed, U.S. officials say. Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay continue their excellent work on American intelligence in this piece, which begins with the following sentence, "U.S. intelligence has no evidence that terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi visited Syria in recent months to plan bombings in Iraq, and experts don't believe the widely publicized meeting ever happened, according to U.S. officials." Read More

In Uzbekistan, McCain calls for independent investigation

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Monday May 30, 2005 · 2:55 PM PDT

2005/05/30 · 14:55

The NYTimes reports that Republican Senators McCain, Graham, and Sununu paid a visit to Uzbekistan, where McCain joined the EU, the UN, and NATO in calling for an independent investigation, to be conducted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The delegation's rhetoric seems to have gone off the Bush script. Read More

Columbia University shows its true union-busting colors

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Tuesday April 26, 2005 · 8:22 AM PDT

2005/04/26 · 08:22

The Nation has obtained a copy of an internal memo (pdf file) sent by the Columbia University Provost to deans, professors, and University leaders listing possible retaliatory responses to striking graduate employees. Jennifer Washburn has written an accompanying article.

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Walking Without Putin

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Thursday February 03, 2005 · 3:39 PM PST

2005/02/03 · 15:39

First diary, so if I've screwed up, let me know, but please be gentle. I looked through the diaries, and didn't see anything on this.

Mark McDonald at Knight Ridder reports today on a a new anti-Putin youth movement in Russia, which "would like to use Ukraine as its political model in Russia. Its young organizers were mesmerized by the pro-democracy protests in Kiev in recent months." Read More

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