I'm-a gonna shill fer somebody... AFL-CIO has up its WORKING AMERICA pro-OCCUPY web page, etc.

[vets74]

Say what you will, AFL-CIO is in the business of organizing. There's nothing that they are for that is against the rest of us.



First off, here is the main page:

http://www.workingamerica.org/">WORKING AMERICA home page -- with a sign up and with links for their unemployment lifeline, education, and more.

Then for their pro-Occupy effort:

http://action.workingamerica.org/c/575/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2989">Send a message page

I like the concept of connecting non-union people up with the largest U.S. union organization. Most people these days do not understand unions, sad as that sounds. Putting together these ties helps both ways.

We could replicate this map&contact resource at DU. Anyway... here's a map and contact list for #Occupy efforts, courtesy of AFL-CIO:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/04/1022722/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-List-and-map-of-over-200-US-solidarity-events-and-Facebook%C2%A0pages">Occupy Wall Street - List of 200-plus events with Facebook pages

Seems to me that AFL-CIO is putting substantial resources to supporting OWS. A lot of what AFL-CIO has to offer, OWS does not have. It's a good fit.

GO LABOR !!

[vets74]

1. 68,842 bridges are rated "Engineering Deficient." Meanwhile 9.1% are unemployed. -- AFL-CIO page

http://www.aflcio.org/upload/splash_awtw.cfm?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aflcio.org%2Fcorporatewatch%2Findex.cfm">MAP page for live actions

These guys have a bunch of stuff.

[Marrah_G]

6. AND we now have our bridges being made in China with Chinese steel

and being shipped over here..... paid for with stimulus money :( The same thing is going on with Wind turbines.... yay green stimulus....

[patrice]

2. OccupyKC stood with SEIU at Research Medical Center, Tues, 10/19

Hospital Corporation of America has not given CNAs and maintenance workers their contracts.

[vets74]

7. Solidarity. Practical example. n/t

[vets74]

3. Why doesn't CHROME have an Occupy Wall Street theme for its browser ? n/t

[Recursion]

9. Because you haven't made one yet?

Where would we be if Linus had just said "Why doesn't MINIX have a BKL yet?"

[seacaves]

4. Rec and thanks for the post.

[deacon]

5. k/r

[Recursion]

8. This is the way unions MUST go to survive: open enrollment

We simply don't have an economy that lets labor create false labor shortages anymore.

[vets74]

10. Bingo !

Betcha they figured this out on their own.

[TBF]

11. K&R nt

[vets74]

12. I'M THE 99% -- AND I VOTE !