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Says if he is Guilty, Governors Like Rick Perry of Texas Could be Jailed Too
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Siegelman Says if he is Guilty, Texas Governor Rick Perry Could be Executed
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The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson
SOUTHSIDE BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — They say it is a small world, but what do “they” know? I say the cliche is even more true today with modern social networking technology like Facebook.
I was just chatting with a blonde from Germany over my second cup of coffee in the Hippie Tree House, upstairs in the Hippie House on Birmingham’s Southside.
I crashed last night on the new couch in Hippie Stew’s place, and felt right at home. Maybe that’s because I was born five blocks from here in the old South Highlands Hospital, the first hospital Richard Scrushy purchased to create the outpatient and sports medicine empire known as HealthSouth.
Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy answers questions on Alabama’s strict, new immigration law. Watch the video to see what he had to say and share it with your friends and family. You won’t find this kind of honest coverage anywhere else, not in the newspapers, on local television news, on cable news or even in The New York Times.
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Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy talks about the role of labor in politics in the state and country and the agenda for the Democratic Party in the years ahead in this exclusive interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal.
Garry “Gabby” Frost, the business manager for UA Local 498 in Gadsden, Alabama, and president of the North Alabama Labor Council, shared some interesting insights on politics, labor and the media for working folks in this interview with Glynn Wilson of The Locust Fork News-Journal. Watch the video to hear what he had to say.
MONTGOMERY – Incoming Alabama AFL-CIO President Al Henley introduces retiring president Stewart “Buck” Burkhalter Monday night at his retirement reception at the Twenty-Eighth Biennial convention at the Marriott Montgomery Prattville at Capitol Hill. It was an emotional moment for both men, who have seen many changes come to labor and politics in their time.
We will have more coverage of the convention over the next couple of days, and more coverage of labor in the days and weeks ahead. It is an interesting and challenging time for organized labor nationally and in the state. As the Occupy Wall Street movement fires up protesters from New York to Birmingham, discussions we heard Monday night indicate we will be hearing more from the unions as the election season picks up interest next year.
In fact, sources say there is a coal miners strike coming against Drummond Coal in the not too distant future. Labor is gearing up to join protests here and to influence the outcome of elections in interesting and new ways in the coming election cycle, using the Internet and Web media to get their message out, as the mainstream, corporate news media continues to ignore the big news of the day.
ANALYSIS
by Glynn Wilson
Once again, a conservative federal court has protected the Republican Party and Big Business by upholding part of Alabama’s strict new immigration law.
This time, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld parts of the law on Friday, but stayed parts of the law that let’s the schools off the hook.
In an earlier ruling, U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn upheld the law, except for parts objected to by churches, big business and police.
Federal Judge With Ties to Bush Fails to Strike Down Alabama’s Immigration Law
The appeals court stayed parts of the law that require proof of lawful residency in the U.S. and that were designed to track immigration information about newly enrolled students. On the other hand, the court did not block the parts of the law that allow police to check the immigration status of anyone during a routine traffic stop, or the part requiring employers with government contracts to prove the immigrant status of employees.
The 13th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, a celebration of new independent cinema in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, will happen this weekend, August 26-28.
Since its debut in 1999, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and have discovered “fresh, enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema,” according to the Website for the event.
Sidewalk 2011 will take place in the Theatre District of Downtown Birmingham on August 26, 27 and 28. The Alabama Moving Image Association was created to inspire, encourage and support films and filmmaking in Alabama.
With nine venues located within Birmingham’s historic Theatre District (featuring the newly restored Alabama Theatre, a 2,200 seat movie palace built by Paramount in 1927), spontaneity rules the schedule of Sidewalk attendees. Low-priced weekend passes provide easy access to Sidewalk venues, encouraging attendees to seek out new films and sample programming they may not otherwise see.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Sometimes if you put yourself in a position in nature and turn up your powers of observation, you get lucky. I had been hearing the bobwhites call for two days and nights.
Then this morning while I was still sipping coffee, two Northern bobwhites [colinus virginianus] wandered into the camp site next to mine in Gulf State Park, feeding on the ground. I was able to shoot more than a dozen frames with the new 750 mm lens before they scurried off into the underbrush out of sight.
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