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You can also donate by check, made payable to: Saturday 16 June 2012 With the American Left in a Smoldering Wreck Post-Wisconsin, Who's to Blame?Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism: "We are not alone, and the system is weak. There is an international movement, led at this moment by Alexis Tsipras of Greece ... to reject the destructive neoliberalism that has run our world for forty years. These movements are contagious. Meanwhile, the financial system is teetering on another meltdown, and meltdowns do create opportunities for new social movements... If we can figure out how to interrupt the stream of profit and commerce ... then the revival can come much quicker than anyone imagines." Read the Article Voting Begins in Egypt's Presidential Runoff Election David D Kirkpatrick, The New York Times News Service: "Polls opened on Saturday as Egyptians began two days of voting in the country's presidential runoff election, choosing between ousted President Hosni Mubarak's former prime minister and an Islamist candidate.... The military's power grab, which many critics have called a coup, is the latest obstacle to the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that is Egypt's largest political force…. The generals, who on Saturday issued a statement promising a fair vote, have already sought permanent protections for their autonomy and political power." Read the Article And You, What are You Waiting For?: A World Without Slavery Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: "Haiti is home to one form of slavery propelled by economic desperation. Parents who cannot feed or school their children regularly give them away in the hopes that the family receiving them will offer more than they themselves can. Instead, the children usually end up in forced servitude, as restavèk or 'stay with's.'" Read the Article SEC Taps Wall Street Veteran to Oversee Rating Agencies Kevin G Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "Consumer advocacy groups voiced concern over the appointment Friday of a Wall Street veteran to be the chief overseer of credit-rating agencies, which were found by two government inquiries to have been major causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Thomas J. Butler has been appointed the new head of the Office of Credit Ratings. He starts Monday." Read the Article The Clash on Wabash: The 150 NATO Summit Protesters Who Stayed Up Past Mainstream Media's Bedtime Darryl Holliday and E N Rodriguez, Truthout: "After the scheduled #noNATO march ended Sunday afternoon, May 20, a much-broadcast clash with police resulted in a fracture of the main protest group. Those who remained were almost all young, antiwar protesters who found themselves with several options: go home, head north or continue south to McCormick Place. The mix of around 150 local and visiting youth chose the latter and, around an hour later, wound up at the entrance to the NATO summit." Read the Article The Easter Rising: How 1,558 Irish Defied the British Empire Robert Wilbur, Truthout: "Picture it: A cadre of 150 revolutionaries, armed with bolt-action rifles, revolvers and homemade grenades, seize Westminster Abbey, run up a flag sporting a picture of Che Guevara and proclaim Great Britain a workers' paradise. Would the Coalition government pound London's most holy place with artillery in Hyde Park, barrage it from a gunboat on the Thames and set the cathedral's upper reaches afire from howitzers pitching incendiary shells from surrounding rooftops, until there was little left of Westminster Abbey but a steaming shell?" Read the Article How Not to Be a Union Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, CounterCurrents.org: "Unions were originally built on the principle of solidarity. Workers soon realized that as individuals they were powerless when trying to defend their interests in relation to their profit-maximizing employers. But when they were organized and stood together, their combination gave them the upper hand.... However, in the current period, electoral politics has come to replace the principle of solidarity." Read the Article The Corruption of Politics by Checkbooks Gerald E Scorse, Baltimore Chronicle: "Dollars deliver messages in a new book by 'Dollar Bill' Bradley, and the former Rhodes scholar, NBA star, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate has no doubt where the dollars should and shouldn't be going. They should be pouring FDR-style into job creation, and they shouldn't be donated to politicians, especially dollars from corporations. Bradley's book, We Can All Do Better, has an early chapter, "Uprooting the Root of All Evil," that examines the corruption of politics by checkbooks." Read the Article "No Justice, No Piece": Pizza Company Accused of Targeting Immigrant Strikers Josh Eidelson, In These Times: "Workers at Palermo's Pizza have been on strike for two weeks. They say they chose to strike after Palermo's met their efforts to form a union with threats and retaliation, including the use of immigration enforcement as a weapon. Slogans include 'No Justice, No Piece.' On Monday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) set a union election for July 6." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
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