Feb
22
2011
Reporting from Cairo — A defiant Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi vowed Tuesday not to resign and denounced the anti-government protesters who have challenged his regime as “greasy rats” and “drug-fueled mice” who deserve to be executed.
“These gangs are cockroaches,” he said. “They’re nothing. They’re not one percent of the Libyan people.”
In a lengthy address on state TV, Kadafi, who has ruled since 1969, stood in the ruins of a barracks in Tripoli that was bombed …
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Feb
22
2011
WASHINGTON – New polling conducted for the AFL-CIO and shared with The Huffington Post shows Wisconsin voters siding with the state workers, unions and protestors by large majorities and expressing net disapproval of Republican Governor Scott Walker
The Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research conducted two surveys among likely voters in Wisconsin this past week, one fielded between Wednesday and Sunday last week (604 live interviews, margin of error +/- 4%) and the second fielded …
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Feb
22
2011
House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote on anti-union legislation, The Indianapolis Star has learned.
A source said Democrats are headed to Illinois, though it was possible some also might go to Kentucky. They need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into police custody and returned to Indiana.
The House came into session this morning, with only two of the 40 Democrats present. Those two were needed to …
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Feb
22
2011
Six days of protest in the Northern African nation of Libya have left hundreds dead and many more wounded. The demands of Libyan protesters echo those made by their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt. The New York Times reports that Libyans are calling for an end to Gaddafi’s rule and for an interim secular government composed of the Army and …
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Feb
22
2011
Wisconsin’s freshman Republican Governor Scott Walker remains unswayed by major demonstrations against his budget proposal, which contains language that would end the collective bargaining rights of the state’s unions. For the eighth straight day protesters have amassed around the state, including Milwaukee and the capitol, Madison. Meanwhile the Democratic state Senators who fled Wisconsin in order to avoid a vote …
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Feb
22
2011
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.
The people power in Wisconsin has become too big for the media to ignore.
On Saturday, over 70,000 people took to the streets of Madison to oppose Republican Governor Scott Walker’s …
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Feb
22
2011
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”– Martin Luther King Jr. …
Feb
21
2011
We’ll talk to a US based Libyan-American activist about the Uprising in Libya, and discuss the attack on labor unions in Wisconsin with Mary Bottari. …
Feb
21
2011
Reporting from Cairo — Anti-government protests raged Monday for the first time in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with unconfirmed media reports of pro-regime snipers firing into crowds, bloody clashes on the city’s main square and fires blazing in key government buildings.
Al Jazeera reported that a fire was burning inside the People’s Hall, a symbol of longtime strongman Moammar Kadafi’s repressive regime. TV images showed demonstrators setting fires in the streets, but the size of the …
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Feb
21
2011
WASHINGTON — The protests that erupted last week in Wisconsin have attracted attention not only across the United States, but even as far away as Egypt. One of those out-of-state observers, Maine state Rep. Diane Russell (D), has decided that what is happening in Madison is so important — even to her own Northeastern state — that she has decided to pack up a vehicle and drive all the way out there with three of …
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