{"id":889,"date":"2006-11-01T09:26:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T17:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=889"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T17:30:27","slug":"labor-turns-out-largest-gotv-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/11\/01\/labor-turns-out-largest-gotv-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Turns Out Largest GOTV for Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_11_01_ackerman.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_11_01_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/images\/feature_labor2006_l.gif\" alt=\"AFL-CIO\" \/><\/a><em>GUESTS: Karen Ackerman, Political Director of the AFL-CIO<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Labor unions are gearing up for the mid-term elections like never before. Despite the major split following the 2004 election, the AFL-CIO is targeting more than 200 races in twenty-one states, including many gubernatorial races. According to David Moberg, writing for The Nation, &#8220;The good news for Democrats is that despite its problems, organized labor is mounting a record effort, maintaining roughly the same level of union political cooperation as before the split, and finding new ways to expand its influence.&#8221; The new &#8220;Change to Win&#8221; Federation is focusing on only three states, although affiliated unions are also active on a wider scale. Earlier this week, the AFL along with it&#8217;s community affiliate, Working America, announced plans for an ambitious &#8220;Get-Out-The-Vote&#8221; campaign in the final four days before the election. A hundred thousand union volunteers will be deployed to reach millions of union voters in the largest organizational turnout program in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\">www.aflcio.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUESTS: Karen Ackerman, Political Director of the AFL-CIO Labor unions are gearing up for the mid-term elections like never before. Despite the major split following the 2004 election, the AFL-CIO is targeting more than 200 races in twenty-one states, including many gubernatorial races. According to David Moberg, writing for The Nation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}