[colug-432] Fwd: Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass Movement Considers Next Steps
Thomas W. cranston
cranston.thomas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 17:55:03 EDT 2011
Here's an opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. I think you
will get a bigger bang for your buck. Recalling the governor will send a
really huge message.
Tom
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Subject: Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass Movement
Considers Next Steps
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:00:42 -0400 (EDT)
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*Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass Movement Considers Next
Steps*
Ryan Harvey, Truthout: "I went back to Wisconsin this weekend to
participate in and document what is being considered the largest
demonstration in the state's history. On Saturday, March 12, up to
100,000 people marched in Madison against the passing of Gov. Scott
Walker's anti-union 'budget repair' bill. After almost a month of
deadlock, Republican senators introduced an edited version of the
controversial bill last week, removing economic language from the
original to maneuver around a Democrat strategy to block it."
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*Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part I)*
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This is the first part of a two part series
looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other DoD
contractors instead of doing the management and oversight themselves.
Both Charles Smith and Robert Bauman are former DoD oversight and
investigative personnel and they will explain fundamental and insidious
problems with this new DoD fad, how and why it got started, how it hurts
our defense and troops and what to do to begin to change it."
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*Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: Fifty Japanese Workers*
Keith Bradsher and Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times News Service: "A
small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only
people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on
Tuesday - and perhaps Japan's last chance of preventing a broader
nuclear catastrophe. They crawl through labyrinths of equipment in utter
darkness pierced only by their flashlights, listening for periodic
explosions as hydrogen gas escaping from crippled reactors ignites on
contact with air."
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*AT&T to Limit Internet Access and Charge Overage Fees*
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Starting May 2, AT&T will begin implementing
monthly usage limits for its U-Verse and DSL users and charge $10 fees
every time a customer exceeds the cap. According to Broadband Reports,
DSL customers will have a 150GB monthly usage limit, while U-Verse
subscribers will get 250GB. AT&T will impose the $10 fee for every 50GB
over the limit a customer uses."
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*Fracking Debate Heats Up as New Jersey Seeks Ban*
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "New Jersey lawmakers advanced legislation last
week that would make their state the first to ban the controversial and
largely unregulated practice of hydraulic fracturing, aka 'fracking,'
used to drill for natural gas. The New Jersey Senate Environment
Committee approved the legislation amid a public debate over proposed
regulations for an estimated 10,000 fracking wells that could soon be
established in the Delaware River Basin."
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*Robert Reich | Safety on the Cheap*
Robert Reich, Truthout: "Can we please agree that in the real world
corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only - to make as
much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?
The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water
reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant, as cheaper to build
than other reactors because they used a comparatively smaller and less
expensive containment structure."
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*Nuclear Disarmament Is People's Work*
Joe Copeland, YES! Magazine: "The people of Hiroshima live with the
devastating legacy of nuclear war, juxtaposed with the city's dedication
to working for world peace. A mindful American visitor to Hiroshima
can't avoid asking: Are people in the United States too comfortable with
the existence of nuclear weapons? How do you motivate the public to care
about the nuclear threat and instill the hope to work toward change? At
times it seems that a good jolt of fear might be the answer. Maybe then
we would finally wake from denial and do something about the dangers of
nuclear arms: the risk that one of the nuclear powers may choose to use
the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, the bomb's distortion of power
relationships among nations, the potential for accident or terror to
unleash some catastrophe."
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*Study: Majority of Consumers Obtain News From Online Sources*
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "For the first time, 21st century consumers are
reading the news online more than in print, according to the 'State of
the News Media 2011' report by the Pew Research Center Project for
Excellence in Journalism. Only television remains the most-used resource
for news among American adults, but the gap is closing. In fact, most
sectors of the American news industry began to recover in 2010 after two
difficult years - but technological advances present old and new media
alike with increasingly complex challenges."
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*This Modern World: The Flustercluck Doctrine*
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on President Obama's
consultation with "General Flustercluck."
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*Jim Hightower | America's True Crisis*
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "The greatest problem our nation faces can be
summed up in one word: leadership. OK, make that three words: lack of
leadership. America's corporate, political, media, academic and other
leaders aren't. They're not leaders - because they refuse to stand tall,
be bold, offer vision, inspire and ... well, lead. We've got too many
5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. They're squishing the historic
can-do spirit of the American people, reducing it to a dispiriting ethic
of surrender that says we-shouldn't-even-try."
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*Islamophobia Can Create Radicalization*
James C. Zogby, Arab American Institute: "Let me state quite directly:
Islamophobia and those who promote it are a greater threat to the United
States of America than Anwar al Awlaqi and his rag-tag team of
terrorists. On one level, al Awlaqi, from his cave hide-out in Yemen,
can only prey off of alienation where it exists. Adopting the persona of
a latter-day Malcolm X (though he seems not to have read the last
chapters of the 'Autobiography' or learned the lessons of Malcolm's
ultimate conversion), he appears street-smart, brash, self-assured and
assertive - all of the assets needed to attract lost or wounded souls
looking for certainty and an outlet for their rage. Like some parasites,
al Awlaqi cannot create his own prey. He must wait for others to create
his opportunities, which until now have been isolated and limited - a
disturbed young man here, an increasingly deranged soldier there."
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In the potential catastrophic disaster brewing in Japan, there is a
lesson to be learned.
The corporations that determine government policy, here and abroad, put
our lives and money on the line, not theirs.
Nuclear plants get subsidies in the US and elsewhere; taxpayers
subsidize GE, one of Obama's favorite companies - a business that didn't
even pay any US taxes in a recent year.
But when the nuclear sites melt down, don't expect Jeffrey Immelt, CEO
of GE, to be running in and exposing himself to likely lethal radiation
in a last-ditch effort to prevent a catastrophe with potentially
worldwide implications.
Fifty workers are shortening the lease on their lives by trying to get
just one of the four Japanese power plants in crisis under control.
According to Harvey Wasserman
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who has been warning about the lethal dangers of nuclear power on
BuzzFlash and Truthout for years:
The workers who do this are incomparably brave. They remind us,
tragically, of some 800,000 Chernobyl "Liquidators." These were
Soviet draftees who were sent into that seething ruin for 60 or 90
seconds each to quickly perform some menial task and then run out.
When I first read that number - 800,000 - I thought it was a
typographical error. But after attending that 1996 conference in
Kiev, I spoke in the Russian city of Kaliningrad and met with dozens
of these Chernobyl veterans. They tearfully assured me it was
accurate. They were angry beyond all measure. They had been promised
they would not encounter health problems. But now they were dying in
droves.
The CEOs get to run crisis PR for GE, defending an indefensible design.
The workers expose themselves to lethal radiation to save Immelt's
lifestyle and protect the rest of us. Who deserves the greater pay?
But this is not just about con men who rake in billions, export jobs and
pay the least wages possible to workers.
No, this is about letting these people get away with risking our lives,
not just our money.
This is about potential negligence leading to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of people, as it did at Chernobyl. This is about enabling the
entrenched elite playing a monopoly game with death, those of the people
of Japan and ours here in the US.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
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*Harvey Wasserman: End Nuclear Power Before It Ends Us
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*EU Energy Chief Says Japan Reactor "Out of Control"
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*Pro-Labor Group Working America Recruits 20,000 New Wisconsin Members
in Wake of Budget Protests
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*Japan Earthquake: Japan Warned Over Nuclear Plants, WikiLeaks Cables Show
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*Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear Age
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*Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken
Reactor
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