I'm old enough to know that we need to continue on with our grandparents struggle

[midnight]

who worked hard to give us a chance for social and ecomomic justice…. Thankfully Bernie stepped into this very important movement to provide a voice to help it continue on.


“In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt


The Fight for Economic and Social Justice
1946 Largest strike wave in U.S. history
1947 Taft-Hartley Act restricts union members' activities
1949 First two of 11 unions with Communist leaders are purged from CIO
1952 William Green and Philip Murray die; George Meany and Walter Reuther become presidents of AFL and CIO, respectively
1955 AFL and CIO merge; George Meany becomes president
1957 AFL-CIO expels two affiliates for corruption
1959 Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin) passed
1962 President John Kennedy's order gives federal workers the right to bargain
1963 March on Washington for jobs and Justice
Equal Pay Act bans wage discrimination based on gender
1964 Civil Rights Act bans institutional forms of racial discrimination
1965 AFL-CIO forms A. Philip Randolph Institute
César Chávez forms AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., during sanitation workers' strike
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Labor-History-Timeline

"Not one state in the nation requires the very wealthy to pay as much of their income in state and local taxes as the middle class.
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. November 2009. “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States.”

http://www.wearethe99percent.us/main/page_facts_tax_inequality.html

In America today, the number one factor predicting how wealthy you will be is not whether or not you went to college, but whether or not your parents are wealthy.
Bhashkar Mazumder. May 2008. “Upward Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States.” Economic Mobility Project.

[Old Codger]

1. I too am old enough

To remember when the word democrat meant something good...

[midnight]

2. I know what you mean… The folks like Paul Wellstone from Minnesota, Ann Richards from Texas, Ted

Kennedy from Massachusettes. Sorely missed…

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. Tedd Kennedy….

[snot]

3. K&R'd & bookmarked!

[eastwestdem]

4. But going to college helps! Don't minimize the power of education. nt

[pat_k]

5. kick 'n' rec