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Hypocrisy Sweeps Middle East - FKN Newz 02/26/2011
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2-25-2011 - Shouting "Shame!" on Wisconsin Assembly floor before "union-busting" budget bill vote
Tempers Explode as Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Taking Away Union RightsSHAME! COWARDS! State Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, and other Assembly Democrats approach the front of the chamber in outrage as their Republican counterparts cut off debate and voted on the union busting bill at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., early Friday morning, Feb. 25, 2011. (Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King) MADISON, Wisconsin -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/25
Fighting for Single Payer in Maryand
from William Hughes
On Wednesday morning, Feb. 23, 2011, activists rallied at Lawyers Mall, in front of the State House, in Annapolis, MD. They are urging the General Assembly to adopt a bill, entitled: “Maryland Health Security Act.” It calls for a state single-payer healthcare system. To learn more about this issue, go to: .mdsinglepayer.org/
Gaza in Plain Language—Revisited. Honoring the March to Gaza. Now on March 4th, 2011
Watch this and start to be an American, “walk the walk.” Do something, don’t just talk, don’t just sit and complain and, especially, stop watching television and reading newspapers. What kind of people actually pay money to be lied to? TIME FOR AMERICANS TO FACE THE TRUTH. And a comment on You Tube by alawson911: "Ever wonder where antisemitism really comes from? Ever think "hmm, did everyone, everywhere, just develop some kind of irrational hatred towards a group of people so small and so identical (ethnically) that there really is no difference? Here's your answer: a state for supremacists, a "Jewish state", supported by the vast network of Jews around the world. Tell you what Jews, I'll make you a deal; stand against this monster created in your name and we can all be friends. Don't, and we can't be!"
Doreen Hicks: “Healthcare is a Human Right!”
from: Bill Hughes
On Wednesday morning, Feb. 23, 2011, activists rallied at Lawyers Mall, in front of the State House, in Annapolis, MD. They are urging the General Assembly to adopt a bill, entitled: “Maryland Health Security Act.” It calls for a state single-payer healthcare system. One of the speakers at the rally was Doreen Hicks of the United Workers organization. To learn more about the Single-Payer issue, go to: http://www.mdsinglepayer.org/
Dr. Margaret Flowers: “Maryland Can Lead the Way on Single Payer!”
from: Bill Hughes
On Wednesday morning, Feb. 23, 2011, activists rallied at Lawyers Mall, in front of the State House, in Annapolis, MD. They are urging the General Assembly to adopt a bill, entitled: “Maryland Health Security Act.” It calls for a state single-payer healthcare system. I spoke with Dr. Margaret Flowers after the rally. She is a Congressional Fellow with the “National Health Program.” To learn more about this issue, go to: http://www.mdsinglepayer.org/
Baltimore Activists in Solidarity with Wisconsin Protest
from: Bill Hughes
On Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, a demonstration was held near the State Office Building, in Baltimore, MD, in support of the Wisconsin Protest. For background on this historic struggle, go to: http://www.afscme.org/
Obama could hold Internet kill switch
There is a major debate over new legislation and the impact it could have on the Internet has people from the tech world and Capital Hill talking. There is a clause that will allow the President to pull the plug on the Internet and stop people from accessing it. CNET's Declan McCullagh joins RT's Kristine Frazao to discuss this and other hot web issues.
Song/videos of the Egyptian Revolution: "The sound of freedom" and 'Why?'
from Eric Walberg
Two song/videos have captured the hearts of Egyptians and are a way for us to join in the bitter-sweet euphoria of their magical moment in history.The most widely watched video/ song is "The sound of freedom" by Eid Amir/ Many Adel. Here it is with subtitles.
(My translation) I came and vowed not to go back And wrote with my blood in all the streets We made listen those who weren’t listening And defied all the strictures/ forbiddens Our weapons were our dreams Tomorrow is clear before us For a long time waiting Looking for and not finding our place In all the streets of our land The sound of freedom calling.
The poetry read out in the middle is by Abdel-Rahman El-Abnudi: (My translation) Oh dark Egyptian hands, extending discriminating amid the roar, breaking the poster frames under the sun at this appropriate time. The brightness in the sound of the crowd… see Egypt the family of the nation of old men, entrenched old men, vicious, they eat our country, and are alike insatiable, greedy, looking the same. Creative youth arose and turned its autumn into spring and realized a miracle, awakened the killed from the killing. Kill me. My death will not return your country again. I am writing with my blood a new life to our homelands. My blood, it and the spring, the two in the colour green and I am smiling from my happiness and not unhappy.
Amir and Adel certainly were opportunists in the best sense of the word, quickly writing a song, preparing the staging it as part of the demos. It's rather fluffy music, a remix of the famous "We Are the World" video of 1985, but i realize they didn't have much time. They're not well known. It captures the euphoria that people still feel.
The best song that came out during the revolution which I quote in US-Egypt: 'Why?'.
How (Why)? by Mohamed Munir
How to make you happy with me, dear? Your name is beloved but you continue to upset me. How can you not feel my basic goodness?
I don't feel in your love any reason (impulse) Nor does my truth in loving you console me How is it I raise your head and you put me down?
I am your oldest street I am your hopes better than those that abuse you I am a child dependent on you Lost in the middle of the road/ life.
If love of you was my choice My heart would long ago have changed you for another But I vow I will continue to change your life for the better Till you are content with me.
How can (why do) you leave me in weakness? Why are you not standing at my side? I live my life in this condition so I don't have to see fear in your eyes. On your land and sea, how can I protect your back While sleeping with my own back exposed, humiliated and embarrassed?
Eric Walberg http://ericwalberg.com/
America- Protest in Wisconsin Must See 2-16-11 13,000 workers in the capitol of Wisconsin
Over 13,000 angry union supporters gathered at the capital building in Madison, Wisconsin for a 17-hour public hearing on the issue. The protesters are calling for opposition to the bill, and an end to Walker's governorship as a whole. But in Tennessee, where their oil billionaire republican governor is moving forward with the same plan to strip unionized state workers of their rights there hasn't been a peep out of the sheep.
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