from William Hughes

On Sunday afternoon, May 23, 2010, author Deborah Rudacille read from her new nonfiction book, “Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town.” It’s the moving saga of Sparrows Point, a company town and steelmaking plant, once owned and operated by Bethlehem Steel. In its heyday, the plant employed about 36,000 employees. The event took place at the Crystal Moll Gallery, in Federal Hill, in Baltimore, MD. Ms. Moll, who is also an artist, served as the hostess for the reading and introduced Ms. Rudacille. “Kirkus Reviews” said of Ms. Rudacille’s tome, “An affecting portrait of decaying loop on the Rust Belt...[She] has delivered a book that would do Studs Terkel proud, partaking of his oral-historical approach to the past, at turns, imbued with pro-Labor spirit throughout.”

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/37266469#37266469

This Rand Paul does not represent the American people, he represents a fascist movement more right wing, more pro war, more pro corporate, and pro police state than the Neocons who left America a hollowed out shell of a country.

For any democracy, fascism is a form of corporate cancer for which, the cure must be radical and immediate or that country will quickly fall. We have but to look at Germany a democracy, which fell to fascism under Adolph Hitler. These tea party people don't give a damn about the environment or freedom except when it comes to corporate freedom. And when they say they want to turn the clock back to a time of earlier American values, they mean the time of the Robber barons when 98% of Americans lived in poverty without public education, Social Security, or a minimum wage and there were no laws to protect people in the work place. America was a Hell, it only became better because we as a people made it better.

The 'tea party' isn’t about making America better for the people. If you didn't like the Bush regime cutting social programs established to help the people, well get ready for that and much more under the tea party. Try the total privatization, elimination, of Social Security wherein it is handed over to the very banks who are presently looting our country into collapse. What, you don't like the endless wars and torture? Well, get ready for brutal heavy handed all out fascist high profit privatized war against the world. Don’t like the price of food and gasoline? Those things are provided by corporations which are very important to the tea party, therefore they must make a good profit. The cost of necessities will double and double again under the pro corporate teas.

Yes I’m afraid it's out of the frying pan and into the fire for the poor American people unless they wake up to what fascism is: the melding of state and corporate power over the people. Pro corporate nationalism, anti environmentalism, and anti civil rights, are values that are absolutely wrong for the people and the planet. Part 1 RACHEL MADDOW V RAND PAUL - (This Is Awesome!) PART 1 | Rand Paul's Crazy BP Oil Spill Comments

This terrorizing and brutalizing of the people by the police happens often in America, but there is rarely anyone around with a video camera to record it. In some states like Maryland, its a felony to videotape the police while they are beating the hell out of someone. The bullying of the American people by the various police departments across the country continues unabated and the police are rarely if ever disciplined for their actions. This is only possible because the police are carrying out the will of the government. The continued state brutality against the people sends the wrong message to a so-called 'free people' living in a so-called 'democracy'. But if its not a democracy, and its the intent of the government to terrorize the citizenry then these seemingly senseless beatings and tazerings serve the purpose of conditioning the public to accept tyranny and cruelty without limit from their government. This is how a totalitarian fascist state breaks the will and spirit of it’s people, so that if or when it becomes necessary to herd them into concentration camps, the people will not resist and will go quietly to their deaths, being to fearful of authority to fight back. Therefore, with the proper conditioning of a population it becomes possible for a very small number of people to control and kill that population. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNGctzzl8JE&feature=related | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m01Q6RIApx0 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dik-mgCDcg | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizo-sOSE6o&NR=1 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hjcHjN7Fe8 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wJagr5arI | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8TnIYfAhk

from William Hughes

On Tuesday evening, May 18, 2010, readings from “City Sages: Baltimore,” an anthology of some of “Baltimore’s best writers,” took place. It was held at Barnes & Noble-Hopkins. The authors, who read from their contribution to the popular book, were: Jessica Anya Blau, Madeleine Mysko, Michael Kimball and Jen Michalski. The latter also served as the editor of “City Sages: Baltimore.” Saying a few words, too, on camera was Gregg A. Wilhelm of CityLit Press, the publisher of the tome. For more background on this literary tour de force, please go to: http://www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=47

from William Hughes

On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. Speaking on camera were: Ernie Grecco, President Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Unions; Mary Kay Henry, President of the SEIU; Al Marshall, a member of the SEIU; and, Charles Baker, who is with N.O.A.H., in Cleveland, OH. Over 2,000 individuals took part in the demonstration, according to the organizers. For background, see: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/05/17/join-us-today-for-the-k-street-showdown/

from William Hughes

On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. The Banksters were condemned for causing the economic collapse, the “Meltdown of 2008,” and for perpetuating it on the backs of the working class and the poor. Over 2,000 individuals took part in the demonstration, according to the organizers. For background, see: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/05/17/join-us-today-for-the-k-street-showdown/

from William Hughes

18 days ago On Sunday afternoon, May 16, 2010, an ad hoc group of concerned activists picketed a BP, (British Petroleum), gas station, located at the intersection of 33rd Street and Greenmount Ave, in Baltimore, MD. They expressed their outrage at BP for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, lax government regulations of the industry, and strongly opposed allowing any more off-shore drilling permits. For some background on the BP-made disaster, go to: upcoming.current.com/search?q=Dirty+facts+about+the+BP+oil+catastrophe

With delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference

From LeftStreamed

Part 1:

performance by Red Slam collective
Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network

Part 2:
http://www.blip.tv/file/3614781
Danny Beaton: 2010 recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award (NAAA) for Environment and Natural Resources
Robert Lovelace, a leader of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation

from: William Hughes

16 days ago On the evening of May 13, 2010, in Annapolis, MD, an “informational meeting,” on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare system and how to create a “Medicare for All” program was held. Part of the event focused on the status of the issue with respect to the General Assembly of Maryland. Dr. Eric Naumburg spoke to that situation. Later, activist Patricia Courtney shared briefly her views on why she got involved in the Single Payer cause. The meeting was hosted by the Anne Arundel County chapter of the Medicare for All campaign. For more information, check out: pnhp.org

from William Hughes

16 days ago On the evening of May 13, 2010, Dr. Margaret Flowers spoke at an “informational meeting,” on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare system and how to create a “Medicare for All” program in this country. In her remarks, made in Annapolis, MD, she traced the history of the fight for Medicare for All, revealed its current state and the plans for the future to make it a reality. The event was hosted by the Anne Arundel County chapter of the Medicare for All campaign. Dr. Flowers is associated with Physicians for a National Health Program, check out for more information: pnhp.org