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pax.for.ever said...
Thank you, Rhonda, for voicing your opinion about the Michelle Obama comment that found disfavor with the media and other pundits. My God! Isn't the woman entitled to her honest opinion whether she is the prospective First Lady of the country or not? This is not only her God-given right, but in fact I entirely AGREE WITH HER! Even though I force myself to retain LOVE FOR MY NATIVE LAND, I believe I not only have the right but am DUTY-BOUND to be highly critical of it in the name of TRUTH AND JUSTICE.
Your and your family experiences can be multiplied untold by millions of African-Americans all across this country, end upon end, century upon century. Each family has its own horror story to reveal. Thank you for sharing yours. It only goes to remind us of the common realities we as a people share -- which the majority population does not even have an inkling remains a factor in our everyday existence. They can't really relate. What is more, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (government)has done so very many things that I as an ethical and Christian person am opposed to that I have no choice but to vent my real feelings, as did Michelle. All the recent wars and war mongering, capitalistic greed, neglect of environmental imperatives, FBI/CIA/POLICE STATE injustices occurring consistently, the Injustice Court and Penal System, the Great Gas Rape political and legislative protectorates, lack of concern for the impoverished, medical care neglect and abuse for the poor and elderly, etc., leave me the most ashamed of my country than I have ever been before in my lifetime and in recent history. Why should anyone have to lie about it or pretend to overlook it. If we truly still have love for our country -- like a mother for a wayward child -- we have the responsibility to keep loving it while we keep trying to deliver it to see the light and come to a higher point of righteousness. Besides, Michelle added the qualifier "very" which assumes that there might have also been other moments of high regard, but this one is the penultimate. Long live Michelle and long live her unfettered comments. Friends, Americans and Countrymen, remove the "Shackles" so Michelle's words can "Dance." [Just ask Mary Mary about how liberating that is!] More Power to you, Michelle, speak your mind all the time, Future
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Justice at Smithfield
Justice at Smithfield
The meat of the matter
The labor movement's future might hang on what happens at this
giant packing plant near the tiny town of Tar Heel.
By Frank Maley
With union membership continuing its long decline and representation of the U.S. work force dwindling — from 23% in 1983 to 13% in 2007 — the labor movement needs a big win. There would be no sweeter place to get it than North Carolina, the least unionized state in the nation. “This is one of the largest industrial plants in the South,” says Robert Korstad, associate professor of public policy studies and history at Duke University. “It’s symbolic to the union movement. If they’re able to win there, it sends a real signal to other workers in other industries.”
For Smithfield, a union in Tar Heel could expose the Achilles’ heel of the business model that made the company the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor. “They figure if they can get that done, it will be a catapult into other industry in North Carolina and South Carolina,” says Joe Luter IV, president of The Smithfield Packing Co., the subsidiary that runs the plant. “Then they’ll move on down the Southeast into Georgia, Alabama, etcetera.”
“If the labor movement can’t win the South, we can’t succeed,” Gene Bruskin, director of the union campaign, told Labor Notes magazine, adding: “The Tar Heel plant is big enough and important enough and close enough to other places that it has the possibility of moving other people. The possibilities of organizing packinghouse workers would be transformative to the labor movement, for immigrants, for African American workers, for the South.”
The UFCW has been trying to organize the Tar Heel plant since 1992, the year it opened. There have been longer campaigns in North Carolina and a few that involved more workers, says James Andrews, president of the state AFL-CIO in Raleigh. “But at least in recent history, I can’t think of a worse situation.” Hourly employees twice have voted on whether the union would represent them, and twice the union has lost. It claims the company won by coercion — charges backed by a court decision and the National Labor Relations Board, which has ordered a new election.
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