http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wadesworld%20nov82013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO lambasted the Republican “principles” on immigration reform as a non-starter virtually creating a permanent apartheid of immigrants inside the country. There was a time when the vigorousness of labor’s opposition would have signaled the death of such a bill. This time …
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President Represents All of the Rest of Us on Thanksgiving this Year
New Orleans The right always wails that Obama is the Community Organizer-in-Chief, but he rarely is. During the war years, the odds were excellent that he might be on a plane to Iraq or Afghanistan to share the day with the troops. All of which makes this Thanksgiving special since he and Michelle Obama did the …
Act Fast with the Majority Favoring Some Kind of Immigration Reform
New Orleans Eliseo Medina, a longtime labor organizer and colleague from the Farmworkers to CWA to the SEIU, and a lifelong immigration reform advocate, is living these days on the Washington Mall in a tent with a couple of others on an extended fast in hopes of triggering some pang of conscience from Speaker John …