Rutgers Sit-in Against Sweatshops Ends with No Arrests

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Friday April 27, 2012 · 1:54 PM PDT

2012/04/27 · 13:54

Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops have occupied the Old Queens building. They are sitting in at the office of outgoing university President Richard McCormick. They demand that Rutgers withdraw from the management-dominated Fair Labor Association. FLA, while it claims to assist in identifying vendors which do not use sweatshops, has been repudiated by maquiladora activists in Mexico and Central America.

They are requesting calls of support to 848-932-5474.

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Tuesday September 27, 2011 · 3:00 PM PDT

2011/09/27 · 15:00

Governor Cartman says he's not running. News at 11... or 10... or Wednesday.

Gov. Chris Christie to donors: I'm not running for president

I don't know whether to laugh or...

Chris "Eric Cartman" Christie ran as a moderate conservative. Many people in NJ miss the days of Marge Roukema, Governor Tom Kean, Millicent Fenwick. Maybe they thought he was an old-style Jersey republican.

In all honesty, the Democrats did not put up a fight in the Gubernatorial election and since.

I am hopeful that Christie's unsavory past (buying his US Attorney appointment), bullying mannerisms, and ugliness inside as well as out will make him unpalatable to voters.

But the President will have to show he is different from the competition, stop with the "yes, only not so much"... and actually take a stand for public education, fair taxation, and pensions to effectively differentiate himself if Christie tries to play the "intelligent conservative".

I'm waiting.

Iowa changed EVERYTHING

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Friday January 04, 2008 · 12:50 PM PST

2008/01/04 · 12:50

I feel compelled to must explain why the Iowa caucuses change EVERYTHING. Not just public perception of the Democratic candidates. Not just race relations in America in the 21st, and by extension, the 20th, 19th, and 18th centuries. Not just party politics, which will be forever changed by Barack Obama's radical vision of... of.. of politics!

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Tuesday September 18, 2007 · 7:48 AM PDT

2007/09/18 · 07:48

When we talk about keeping municipal police forces out of immigration enforcement, I suspect that conservatives imagine a scenario in which a perpetrator slips through the net because no one checked his status. Remember the Mt. Vernon School murders?

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 9:07 AM PST

2006/02/09 · 09:07

Let's hear it for Mexican reporters who really do care about getting the truth out.

Armed Assault on Nuevo Laredo's Newspaper February 7, 2006 El Mañana is Nuevo Laredo's largest daily newspaper. The paper has a reputation for honest reporting, the courage to cover narcotics and the maquiladoras, and for giving a voice to workers and the poor in Nuevo Laredo. Consequently it has been a frequent target of narco traffickers, corporate interests, and government repression. It happened again Monday when the newspaper was invaded by gunmen at 7:45 P.M. At least two men wearing hoods entered the newspaper's offices carrying high caliber weapons and opened fire on reporters and staff who were at work on the morning edition. Carrying AR-15 and AK-47 rifles and grenades, the intruders shot up the reception area and proceeded to the editorial office where they continued firing.

Rest of story and action items after the jump.
Info provided by Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras I had the privilege of meeting Ninfa Deandar and members of her staff last year in Nuevo Laredo. Read More

Boobs Over America

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 2:04 PM PST

2005/01/04 · 14:04

CNN reports that the good folks at Clear Channel who work so hard to protect us from the Dixie Chicks and their ilk are up to more community-minded service projects

Breast Enlargement Contest Draws Fire
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.

In the ``Breast Christmas Ever'' contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.

Get it? It's radio... so no one has to see the boobs... so it's not indecent! It's family values!
See below to complain about these swollen boobs. (I mean the execs at Clear Channel.) Read More

I don't belong here in downtown Quiche

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 11:17 AM PST

2004/12/16 · 11:17

That's a line from Cheech Marin's novelty song "Born in East L.A.". He took Bruce's "Born in the U.S.A" and turned it into a story about being deported from his barrio home to a country he'd never seen. Quiche is a region and a language in Guatemala.

Did someone say "history happens first as a farce and then as a tragedy"?

ICE Deports West Windsor (NJ) Resident to Wrong Country

As if the pain and fear of being swept up with his family by immigration agents at his home one morning, and then languish for two weeks in jail, were not enough, without prior notice to him or his family, yesterday morning, one of the Guatemalan immigrants who was arrested in West Windsor on November 30 was taken to the airpor at dawn, to be deported from the country he called home for over 13 years, and put on a flight destined not for his home country, but for Mexico City!

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Friday December 03, 2004 · 8:35 AM PST

2004/12/03 · 08:35

18-Bill Initiative Includes February Presidential Primary, Mail-in Ballot Casting,
Pre-Election Day Voting, Paper Ballot Backups for Electronic Voting Machines

(Got this press release from NJLatinoIssues listserv. 201, 973, 908, 732, 856, and scenic 609, everything we do to clean up our politics is a good fight. Contact your Senators and Ass(emblymen) at: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp)

(TRENTON) - Assembly Majority Speaker Albio Sires today announced an Assembly panel next will begin examining an 18-bill election reform plan that aims to increase voter participation, ensure the integrity of election results, and enhance New Jersey's role in presidential politics.

The reform initiative - dubbed "Every Voter Counts" - was unveiled at a State House press conference in October and would make New Jersey a national leader in promoting voter-friendly elections.

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"Screw you guys, I'm going home"

Iowa changed EVERYTHING

" I want to report a homicide" "Are you legal?"

Terroristic attack on Mexican newspaper

Boobs Over America

I don't belong here in downtown Quiche

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