Even in Montgomery, Alabama, Some People Still Believe in Workers’ Rights A YouTube video snapshot of the first rally for unions in the South Glynn Wilson by Glynn Wilson Almost 100 people from all over Alabama showed up on the old Capitol steps in Montgomery on Saturday for a “Save the American Dream” rally in…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Rallies Planned Across the Country to Show Solidarity With Workers in Wisconsin
Rally Planned for Saturday at Noon in Montgomery, Alabama Inspired by the events at the Wisconsin state capitol for the past couple of weeks, union members across the country are getting fired up to keep that energy going and growing throughout the country. This Saturday at noon, working people in all 50 state capitals and…
Mississippi Tops List of Most Conservative States in US
Thank Dog for Mississippi by Glynn Wilson Mississippi is home to the largest percentage of self identified political conservatives among the states in the U.S., with a slim majority identifying their political views as conservative, while Idaho, Alabama, Wyoming, and Utah come close to the 50 percent conservative identification mark, according to Gallup’s latest poll…
Just How Oil Free are Gulf Beaches After BP Cleanup Effort?
WKRG.com News Cleanup crews paid from the $20 billion seized from BP by the Obama administration for Gulf of Mexico restoration have been digging up oil and sifting sand from the beaches along the Gulf in the effort to deep clean them in the wake of the largest and worst environmental disaster in U.S. history…
Wisconsin Workers Hit the Streets Across the State
Justin Geiger While attention has, of course, been focused on Madison, Wisconsin, it is not just the state Capitol that is witnessing historic amounts of grassroots actions opposing Gov. Scott Walker’s extreme political attacks on working families, according to AFL-CIO Political Communications Director Eddie Vale. Wisconsin’s workers already have agreed to Walker’s proposals on wages…
Daily Show Spoofs Republican Efforts to Kill Funding for Planned Parenthood
Stork Bucks? The Daily Show – Mother F#@kers – Stork BucksTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Kristen Schaal wants to cut funding for any organization that has anything to do with abortions, including firefighters, the FAA and NASA.
On the Tyranny of the Majority
Guest Column by Gerald W. Johnson Capital Survey Research Center Winston Churchill, in a speech to the House of commons on Nov. 11, 1947, stated, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” What Churchill meant is that democracy is both a…
Coal is Dirty, Dangerous, Deadly and Unsustainable
Guest Column by Michael William Mullen The recent column by Alabama’s new Public Service Commission member Twinkle Cavanaugh seeks to stir up folks about the costs of energy bills that are stalled in Congress and potential U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations to address emissions responsible for climate change. If she were doing her job, she…
Bikini Bear Urges Caution on More Oil Drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Bikini Bear and David Underhill of the Mobile Sierra Club Guest Column by David Underhill Bikini Bear entered the lion’s den the other day. She is a polar bear. The compulsively literal might say she is a person dressed in a polar bear costume. But all would agree that she was wearing a yellow polka…
Frustration Continues to Mount Along Polluted Gulf Coast
Ten Months Into the Disaster, There’s Still No Cleanup Plan? WKRG.com News The frustration along the Gulf Coast continues 10 months after the largest and worst environmental disaster in U.S. history began when a BP oil well exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 workers and fouling the Gulf and its shoreline marshes and…
Long Live Organized Labor in America
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson A remarkable thing is happening in Madison, Wisconsin. Could the protests for the rights of workers spread around the country and herald a new day for American labor? While much of the media and the world’a attention over the past couple of weeks focused on the protests in Egypt…
American Citizens Exercising Their Right to Peaceably Assemble
The First Amendment to the Constitution Guarantees the Right Voices from across the state of Wisconsin are saying loud and clear that they oppose Republican Governor Scott Walker using the government to take away the rights of Wisconsin workers. Let’s give a hand to these workers and help “Kill the (anti-union budget repair) Bill!”
New World Order Conspiracy Theory Debunked
According to this satirical response to the continuing madness from Fox’s zany, sensational Glenn Beck on the “New World Order” conspiracy theory: Well of course the members of Wisconsin Unions are part of a global conspiracy. For years they have just been pretending to be everyday teachers, firefighters, prison guards and other public workers, waiting…
Deadline For BP Gulf Oil Related Litigation Claims April 20
WKRG.com News Businesses and members of the public with legitimate claims against the corporations responsible for the BP Gulf oil disaster have until April 20 to file a claim with the Multi-District Litigation office in New Orleans. Local attorneys who have cases pending say the deadline is important for anyone who may have current or…
Blackbird Die-Off On the Minds of Bird Count Experts
The Great Backyard Bird Count Starts Friday, Feb. 18 by Glynn Wilson The Great Blackbird Die-Off over the past few months is on just about everybody’s mind who is associated with the Great Backyard Bird Count of 2011, which starts Friday, Feb. 18, and runs through Monday, Feb. 21. A red-winged blackbird “When thousands of…
Thousands Continue Wisconsin Protests for Worker Rights
After protests drew as many as 30,000 people in Madison on Wednesday, hundreds of Wisconsin workers, students and allies camped out overnight in the Capitol Rotunda as a hearing went past midnight on Republican Governor Scott Walker’s budget bill that eliminates collective bargaining rights for nearly all of the state’s public service workers. The state…
Karl Rove Gets Licks in Against Union Protests in Wisconsin
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Will Attacking Planned Parenthood Create Jobs?
Guest Column by Ethan Rome Executive Director, Health Care for America Now The House Republicans seem to be saying yes. Apparently, taking away women’s access to reproductive health services is an important way to create jobs and get the economy moving again. That may explain the urgency of Rep. Mike Pence’s disgraceful legislation to defund…
University of Alabama Pressured Not to Lease Land for Coal Mine
The Black Warrior Riverkeeper non-profit environmental group, part of the national Waterkeeper Alliance, is still putting the pressure on the University of Alabama not to lease land for a coal mine on the Mulberry Fork directly across from a Birmingham drinking water source. The group emailed an open letter to University of Alabama President Robert…
Non-Profit Groups Urge Calls to Congress to Prevent Cuts to Environmental Protections
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a continuing resolution to keep the government operating for the remainder of the fiscal year, but the Republican bill slashes critical funding for water and other environmental protections, and includes language that would prohibit EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act or…
