[colug-432] Fwd: Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass Movement Considers Next Steps

[Jeff Stebelton]

Why is this going to a Linux group mailing list? Case of mistaken identity?
On Mar 16, 2011 5:56 PM, "Thomas W. cranston" <cranston.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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> /Wednesday 16 March 2011
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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
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> problems with this new DoD fad, how and why it got started, how it hurts
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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*
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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,'
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> regulations for an estimated 10,000 fracking wells that could soon be
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> corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only - to make as
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> 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*
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> devastating legacy of nuclear war, juxtaposed with the city's dedication
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> the existence of nuclear weapons? How do you motivate the public to care
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> sectors of the American news industry began to recover in 2010 after two
> difficult years - but technological advances present old and new media
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> *Jim Hightower | America's True Crisis*
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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
> *Read the Article at Democracy Now!
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> *Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken
> Reactor
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