This was recently post on Raw Story:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has figured prominently in recent political news for his attempts to begin impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush, today announced that the congressional subcommittee he chairs will look into reports of peace groups being surveilled by police and private investigators.
“[M]ost people would be [...]
Archive for July 19th, 2008
Kucinich To Investigate Surveillance
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Anti-War, Civil Disobedience, Congress, Investigations, Surveillance on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UAW Has The Advantage!
Posted in Labor, News, tagged UAW, Workers on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Detroit auto makers’ most critical vehicles are proving valuable bargaining chips for the United Auto Workers as the union fights to organize the largely non-union parts industry.
A strike at a small auto-parts plant in Tennessee now threatens an important vehicle for General Motors Corp. — the soon-to-launch Chevrolet Traverse crossover — at a time when [...]
Today In Labor History
Posted in History, Labor, tagged Historical Events, Unions, Workers on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
19 July
Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Delegates adopt a Declaration of Women’s Rights and call for woman suffrage – 1848
US Health Care Not So Healthy
Posted in News, tagged Choices, Health Care, Illness, Wellness on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a piece that was on WebMD and thought people might like to see that all is not as good as some would have us to believe.
The overall health of the nation’s health system is no better than it was two years ago — and appears to have gotten slightly worse, according to a [...]
Contraception Is Really Abortion
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Abortion, Bush, Congress, Conservatives, Contraception, Health, Neo-conservatism on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to women and faces tough opposition, Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
The former Democratic presidential candidate joined family planning groups to condemn the proposal that defines abortion to include contraception such as birth control pills and intrauterine [...]
Venezuela Helps Low Income Families
Posted in Energy, International Situations, News, tagged CFLs, Charity, Low Income Families, pollution, Venezuela on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Venezuelan-owned Oil Company Citgo, together with the organization Citizen’s Energy, will provide about 460,000 energy efficient light bulbs to low-income households throughout the U.S., according to Citgo’s CEO Alejandro Granado.
The announcement was made in Washington D.C. yesterday in the home of one of the beneficiaries of the program, together with Venezuela’s Ambassador to the [...]
Economy: No Laughing Matter
Posted in News, tagged Bernanke, Class Struggle, Federal Reserve, Workers on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The US Consumer Price Index jumped by an unexpected 1.1 percent last month amid spiraling energy prices, according to Labor Department figures released yesterday. June’s inflation spike—the sharpest since 1982—brought the annual inflation rate to 5 percent. Economists had been predicting a monthly increase of .7 percent, and June’s rise was significantly higher than the [...]
Is That 2012 I Smell?
Posted in News, Politics, tagged 2012 Elections, Campaigns, Donations, Funds, Hillary Clinton on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ABC News’ Eloise Harper Reports: Rumors are swirling over whether or not former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is secretly planning a run for the presidency in 2012.
Clinton aides have stressed that Sen. Clinton’s, D-N.Y., focus now is doing everything she can to help her party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., emerge victorious [...]
