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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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500 Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers - Discussion of problems and interests for people in the industry.

404 Berkeley Labor Guides: Union Organizing - Scope, newspaper articles, books and links.
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CATA - The Farmworker Support Committee - Informative site on the organizing efforts of migrant and immigrant farmworkers in the mid-atlantic region of the U.S. Site in Spanish and English.

CyberSolidarity - Labor news, information on labor law and networking information for activists dedicated to labor and human rights activists.
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Employee Issues at IBM Research Triangle Park, NC - A site for IBM Employees to discuss current Union activies, lay-offs, benefit and retirement changes, or anything that's work related.
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Gay Labor Goes Global in Australia - The Gully interviews Ken Davis, Australian gay labor activist and organizer of the 2002 World Conference of LGBT Trade Unionists in Sydney. Focus: history of gay organizing.
Meta Description: [ An interview with Australian gay labor activist Ken Davis, an organizer of Workers Out! World Conference of LGBT Trade Unionists, Sydney, Australia, October 2002. From The Gully. ]

GCIU:Union Privilege: an organizing tool - Union Privilege benefits can be the turning point in organizing campaigns

GE Workers United - The unions at GE in the United States invite GE workers worldwide to unionize.
Meta Description: [ GE Workers United joins workers at the 16 U.S. unions at GE together with GE workers worldwide to build worker power at this global corporation. ]

How to Unionize!!! - A primer on the organizing process.

Labor Organizing: A Struggle in the South - Article on the challenges of organizing in the southern United States.

National Association of Federal Air Marshals (NAFAM) - A grass roots association intending to organize Federal Air Marshals to improve work conditions.

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - Union Organizing - Basic principles under which unions can acquire (and lose) the right to represent employees, and techniques used by unions and what management should should not do.
Meta Description: [ This booklet deals with the basic principles under which unions can acquire (and lose) the right to represent employees, and explains techniques used by unions and what management should & should not do. ]

New School University Academics Come Together - ACT-UAW - Workers organizing a union for the faculty of New School University. Site contains general information, faq, and downloadable union petition.
Meta Description: [ Union of adjunct professors at New York University (NYU) and the New School University (NSU) ]

OFFICE Depot Workers Union Organizing - Maintained by Office Depot employees to assist others in oranizing their workplaces.

Organizing Institute - Program by the AFL-CIO to train union organizers and put them in the field.
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StreetNet is an alliance of international street vendor organisations - StreetNet aims to provide information and resources to enable street vendor organisations to solve their problems by building their bargaining power and visibility. It aims to expand and strengthen street vendor networks at international, regional and national levels.
Meta Description: [ StreetNet is an alliance of international street trader and hawker organisations. StreetNet aims to promote the exchange of information and ideas on critical issues facing street vendors and as well as practical organizing and advocacy strategies ]

404 TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 20. Labor Organizing as a Civil Right. Richard D. Kahlenberg. - This biweekly magazine of politics, policy and culture provides intelligent, entertaining and enlightening commentary on important issues of our time.
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The Farmworkers' website - Sin Fronteras Organizing Project. This website is dedicated to publicize our work and to educate the public about the plight of the agricultural workers.

UFCW 141 Nurses - You Have Rights - Employee rights are protected by Federal Labor Law. Explains what employees and employers can and can not do during organizing.

Union Summer - A campaign by the AFL-CIO which recruits students and young people to spend their summers organizing for the labor movement.
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Union Works - An informal message board to talk about getting associates of Wal Mart to join a union.
Meta Description: [ Workers for and about the move to have associates of Wal Mart become a Union ]

Unionize Lowes Home Improvement - Seeks unionize all Lowes Home Improvement employees.

Wal Mart Workers Canada - Campaign to unionise Wal-Mart workers across Canada.

Whole Foods Workers Unite - Operated by and for Whole Foods workers who want to better the working conditions of all Whole Foods workers.

WirelessWorkers - Features news and resources for wireless communication workers to organize and unionize. It also highlights updates regarding the Verizon Wireless company. Organizing site for the Communications Workers of America.

You Are Worth More - A free online resource for retail workers who want a voice or have a question about work.