North America

Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance

Q: What do you mean by "self-managed unions"?

A: We mean unions run by and for workers themselves the self-organization of the working class in a new kind of militant labor movement.

Q: Aren't all unions corrupt and bureaucratic?

A: When we talk about building unions, we don't mean unions like the national unions of the

Introduction to North America forum

Hey all,

We've set this up in discussion with some of you from your side of the Atlantic, so we hope you enjoy it here, and tell all your friends!

If your group would like a forum please contact us here: www.libcom.org/contact

Enjoy!
John
libcom.org

John McCain Video Game

And you thought nothing could top the CIA Kids page.

Not only does the game make no fucking sense (Pigs?) But it's space invaders. Actually no, It's not just space invaders, it's a super easy version of space invaders. Honestly, I think he can do better than that. I mean really, fucking space invaders? With pigs?!

Massive fraud at ACORN

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Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. After Points of Light noticed financial irregularities in early June, it took less than a month for management to alert federal prosecutors, although group officials say they have no clear idea yet what the financial impact may be.

Founding of Class Action Alliance

Founding of Class Action Alliance
Organizing in the Northwest

DC: Lanier plans to seal off rough ’hoods in latest effort to stop wave of violence

Quote:
Jun 4, 2008 3:00 AM (16 days ago) by Michael Neibauer and Bill Myers, The Examiner
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.

the CIA has a kids page

from the K-5 section:

Quote:
You may have heard about the Central Intelligence Agency. But, do you know what we really do and how we do it? The people of the CIA do very important work. They help keep our country safe. They give our leaders information so they can make good decisions.

https colon backslash backslash www dot cia dot gov/kids-page/index dot html

Use of Islamic law urged in suit

Action over crash targets Prince firm
Joseph Neff and Jay Price, Staff Writers
Comment on this story
RALEIGH - To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American soldiers who died on one of its planes in Afghanistan, a sister company of the private military firm Blackwater has asked a federal court to decide the case using Islamic law, known as Shari'a.

Larry Sinclair Press Conference: Sinclair Arrested, Led Away in Handcuffs

IF anyone's been following the elections, you've probably run across various accusations about Obama's personal life trying to incite homophobic rage against him.

Police critics arrested, home seized in police raid.

Police critics arrested, home seized in police raid.

June 13th, 2007. Philadelphia Police descended upon the home of homeowners
who have been questioning police tactics in Mayor Nutter's new "stop and
frisk" program. 4 residents were arrested in their home at 17th street and
Ridge Avenue, and the police are in the process of sealing the building.

Men and women in prison, probation and parole reaches 7.2 million

Quote:
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 12, 2008

The number of people under supervision in the nation's criminal justice system rose to 7.2 million in 2006, the highest ever, costing states tens of billions of dollars to house and monitor offenders as they go in and out of jails and prisons.

reflections on modern pseudo-events (un-news)

reflections on modern times in the great society
June 9, 2008
“Obama breaks with controversial church”

Libertarian Workers Group resigns from ACF

This was written for another forum, but contains some intersting historical stuff for this forum.
--syndicalist
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Please find our ACF disaffiliation letter, with all its run-on sentences, etc.

Ohio: Judge orders stun gun references removed from autopsies

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Judge orders stun gun references removed from autopsies

May 3rd, 2008 @ 9:04am
by Associated Press

AKRON, Ohio - A medical examiner must change her autopsy findings to delete any reference that stun guns contributed to the deaths of three people involved in confrontations with law enforcement officers, a judge ruled.

http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=826236&r=1

Left communist visits Chicago!

Hi,

One of our comrades from Europe will be taking a vacation in the US this summer and will be in Chicago on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of June. If anyone would like to meet for coffee or a meal and to discuss with someone from the ICC then please e-mail us at the following address and we can make arrangements: usa@internationalism.org

ICC Public Forum on May 68 - Oakland, CA - Sunday 27th July

The International Communist Current will be holding a public forum in Oakland, California. Here are the details:

Sunday July 27th, 2pm to 5pm
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library ( http://www.marxistlibr.org )
6501 Telegraph Ave
Oakland
CA 94609-1113

The subject for the meeting will be 'May 68: the return of the working class after 40 years of counter-revolution'.

Mildred Loving, RIP

Source: AP (5-4-08)

Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.

Peggy Fortune said Loving, 68, died Friday at her home in rural Milford. She did not disclose the cause of death.

Kansas Senate Votes to Punish Unions for Illegal Actions of Employers!

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The Kansas Senate adopted an amendment by Senator Karin Brownlee (R-Olathe) to the immigration reform bill that would put responsibility for controlling illegal immigration on unions and other employee organizations.

'Time to stop buying the donuts!'

That is not an original quote. Keith Olbermann gets props for that one. He used it while giving Dunkin' Donuts his "Worst Person(s) in the World" dis-honor for folding behind threats of a boycott from the nuts from the radical right, namely Michelle "The World's Darkest White Supremacist" Malkin.

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