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Mahlon Mitchell & Fred Schepartz: Workers Solidarity in Wisconsin
February 25, 2011Though Scott Walker has claimed that the fight in Madison is mostly outsiders being brought in by the unions, Madison residents know otherwise. Workers' rights are near and dear to the hearts of many people in Wisconsin, and not just those who are under threat of having their collective bargaining rights slashed. The Wisconsin firefighters are exempt from Walker's actions, but have been rallying in support of the workers, and Madison's Union Cab is a worker-owned collective, but they too have joined the protests.Bill Fletcher, Jr., Solidarity in Wisconsin & the Welfare Connection
February 24, 2011"This could be the kind of social justice moment that many of us have been waiting for," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Center for Labor Renewal. He points out that the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia are not just spreading to Libya, locked in a deadly struggle with its own dictator, but in Ohio, Wisconsin, and around the US. "People are picking up on the energy and the audacity of the democratic revolt," he notes.Restoring the Culture War: The Attack on Ahmed Sharif
September 2, 2010Fear-mongering and Islamophobia have returned to the headlines and the TV stations in the U.S., and recently here in New York a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, was violently attacked by a passenger who asked if he was Muslim. Nine years after 9/11, why are the culture wars once again an issue for the Right?Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters
September 1, 2010President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start.
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