Category Archives: Action
The Real “Entitlement”
Sound Familiar
Here is a paragraph from an article about radio celebrities being fired. The article in itself is not remarkable, but the players bring a familiar ring. Keep in mind that Clear Channel controls a huge portion of the media you hear on a daily basis.
On Wednesday, radio trade publications reported Moody’s analysts believe Clear Channel may have a tough time refinancing more than $10 billion in debt obligations due in 2016. Industry observers speculate that Clear Channel may have to consider a merger or a sell off of some of its assets. The company was acquired by Bain Capital in 2008.
Excerpt from an article written By Joanne Ostrow for the Denver Post
We narrowly avoided electing the creator of Bain Capital as the leader of the free world. Bain’s seeming mentality of profit through liquidation continues. Is this what’s in store by the capitalist power lords in our country? When do you think these guys will get hold of UPS, and what will happen to you?
The Reality Dumb-As-
Time to Start Contacting Your Congress and Senate People
For Colorado, here are the email contact points for Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall.
http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=contact
http://www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/
and for Congress here are the contacts for Mike Coffman, Diana Degette, and Ed Perlmutter.
http://forms.house.gov/coffman/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
http://degette.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=483&Itemid=202
https://forms.house.gov/perlmutter/webforms/contact.shtml
To contact your current Senator use this list to find the contact site. Remember, this list will change for 2013.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
To contact your Representative in the House of Representatives, use this list to find any or all of the Representatives from your state, and remember this list will change for 2013.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/
Remember, we all elected these people, be sure not to let them assume why we cast our vote for them.
Tell them why!
“working full time and living in poverty”
Wal-Mart is accusing a labor union of unfairly organizing months of protests outside its stores just as it faces orchestrated demonstrations by workers in the days leading up to Black Friday. On Thursday, the world’s largest retailer asked the National Labor Relations Board to stop the United Food and Commercial Workers Union from engaging in what it alleged were unfair labor practices and illegal attempts to disrupt its business. The complaint alleging unfair labor practices is being filed shortly before a group of Wal-Mart workers plans to protest on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. About 50 Wal-Mart employees have walked off the jobs this week from stores in San Leandro, Calif., Seattle and Dallas. “We are taking this action now because we cannot allow the UFCW to continue to intentionally seek to create an environment that could directly and adversely impact our customers and associates,” Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar told Reuters. Wal-Mart has been the target of several protests, flash mobs and online petitions in the last few months. These events have been organized in part by advocacy group Making Change at Wal-Mart and by OUR Wal-Mart, a collection of workers who are pushing for better working coniditions. Both groups are affiliated with the UFCW union. Colby Harris, a member of OUR Wal-Mart from Texas, said the retailer was trying to “silence” its workers’ voices. “But nothing, not even this baseless unfair labor practice charge — will stop us from speaking out,” Harris said. “Unfair labor is working full time and living in poverty.” On Friday, Wal-Mart lawyers sent a letter, obtained by Reuters, to the UFCW general counsel accusing the union of provoking “disruptions” in its business, spreading “misinformation” and creating an “uncomfortable environment and undue stress on Wal-Mart’s customers.” The letter says the National Labor Relations Board is allowed to stop any such activities that go on for more than 30 days without a representation petition. Wal-Mart says it’s prepared to “protect our business.” Things may come to a head next week. Organizers say they have about 1,000 events planned outside Wal-Mart stores, culminating in protests on Black Friday. Wal-Mart is rolling out Black Friday deals starting at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, exciting some shoppers and angering others. A petition on Signon.org urging the retailer to delay the doorbuster deals until later has garnered almost 25,000 signatures online.
Some Wal-Mart workers walk out in lead-up to Black Friday
LATimes
What They Say May Be True, In a False Sort of Way
Election Theft Begins
They Don’t Even Like Him in Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed President Obama for reelection Friday, with an editorial that was highly critical of Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who is as close to being a favorite son candidate from Utah, the historic and cultural center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as a non-resident can be.
The Tribune, published by MediaNews Group, criticized Romney’s “servile courtship of the Tea Party” to win his party’s nomination and called him “shameless” in pandering to various constituencies, terming him the GOP’s “shape-shifting nominee.”
“Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: ‘Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?’ ” the editorial states. It also said he “has repeatedly refused to share specifics” of many of his proposals.
The endorsement begins, “Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.” It goes on to praise him lavishly for his rescue of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake and described Romney as “the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son.”
The newspaper also endorsed Obama in 2008 over Republican rival John McCain.
In other endorsements, the Orlando Sentinel in Florida Friday endorsed Romney and the Denver Post in Colorado endorsed the president for reelection
Musicians that Support the Candidates
