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SWING STATE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES

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SWING STATE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES

Florida, Michigan,Ohio,Virginia MONDAY OCTOBER 6, 2008 GET BUSY PEOPLE!!!!!!



The work is continuing, we MUST build for real change in this country.

We need to stay involved and pushing in our local communites

and helping others areas all over the country. This will not be a

short term effort THE PROBLEMS ARE MASSIVE ,so must

our effort be. We need to ORGANIZE,and stay organized for action.

Tavis Hosts Hater's Party

Tavis Smiley hosts Haters Party

By Thomas N. Taylor

If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it. Tavis Smiley, an intelligent and once thought conscious Blackman with a world wide platform was on national TV coming from the floor of the historic 2008 Democratic convention hosting a hater’s party and serving generous portions of hater-aide with special guest, Drs Cornell West and Julianne Malveaux. They were all so animated and drunk on the stuff it was dispicable.

I’m really floored and disappointed because I’m still a fan of Tavis and gave him the benefit of the doubt in his rift with the Black Obama-nation. He had a good chance of redeeming himself by saying nothing at all, since he had nothing good to say about Senator Obama; but there he was unashamed and unapologetically wielding that bitter chastening rod still trying to force his own agenda on a man who clearly has demonstrated he knows what the hell he’s doing.

The bitter trio of West, Malveaux &Smiley said that they were “extremely disappointed” in Barack’s speech because he failed to talk about traditional Black stuff or acknowledge the roll history played in his getting to this point. They castigated him for not mentioning Dr King by name but instead relegating him to “A southern Baptist preacher.’ They praised Hillary Clinton for boldly invoking the name and words of Harriet Tubman. They were overjoyed by the presentation of Bill, race card playing, Clinton but they were “disappointed” in the history making man of the hour who risk assassination and loss of privacy and life as he knew it for himself and his family, to make it all possible.

If you want a real wake up call; trying calling the white agent that represents any ot these three finger pointers and ask how much it would cost for either one of them to show up at your business affair, church or graduation to tell you how much they owe to the King legacy? Dr. King wouldn't charge you a dime. That's why he died broke. Check out the hourly fee rate for Tavis or West, then we can talk. (lest I digress)

I was disappointed because what I thought were three intelligent insightful people; were blinded by jealous ego and failed to see the big picture but settled instead on concentrating on a small section of a brilliant portrait. The entire convention was Barack’s masterful thesis. Who do they think influenced and approved the musical faire? Who do they think OK’d Dr. Kings Children to speak along with John Lewis, the lone surviving speaker of that historic march on Washington? Who approved the video tribute to Dr. King? The entire day was a tribute to Dr. King's legacy but the final leg of this 4X4, four night race was ran brilliantly by Mr. Obama who took the baton and ran off into future history. He spoke boldly of "Marching" forward which doesn’t mean he’s not looking back; just not dwelling on it. And don't think that the use of the word marching was not without consciousness or intention. It's too bad that some of us can't appreciate this man's subtlety or fail to have patience with his pacing and timing as his race continues to unfold. Pay attention bitter people for a picture is more valuable than a thousand words. Can you see our guy out in front? Let us not be the instuments of his undoing and trip him up.

With all that’s at stake we all need to stay focused on the immediate future. Barack Obama’s goal was not to get to the political playoffs but to be President and win the championship. He’s going for the gold. This is no the time for victory speeches praising those who came before him. The job is not yet finished and the best way for him to pay the ultimate tribute to Dr. King and those who preceded us is not talk about it but be about it. Not quote Dr. King but be like Dr. King and live to update the dream.

The bitter trinity said that they liked all of the other statements that were made at Barack Obama’s party. The statements made by those who themselves had similar parties: John Kerry, Al Gore’s and Bill Clinton. But it was at Barack Obama’s party where these statements were made and possible, not theirs. Why do you think that is Bitter Three? The entire day was one enormous statement. Barack made sure that Dr. King's legacy had been well serviced before he took the floor. His part of the night was a different piece of the puzzle.

In the science and art of today's visual media, it's not what you say that counts most but what you see that ultimately carrys the greater impact. It's like people who always quote the bible and invoke the name of Christ, yet on any given day you'd be hard pressed to find a trace of evidence of either exhibited anywhere in their lives. If we can be about King's legacy we wouldn't have to talk about it so much because the proof would be in the pudding since Success leaves its own evidence.

Barack Obama is running for president of these United States. He has a strategic plan and he’s working it. (very well thank you) Don’t hate. Let’s work hard and celebrate while we keep our eyes on the ultimate prize.

Meanwhile; my family and I will be forwarding our condolences to Brother Tavis and those consumed by hate and envy of Barack Obama's success void of their blessings; for it is written that jealousy is crueler than the grave. Let us pray. Our father...

TNT

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

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Phone: (202) 223-3111
Fax: (202) 721-8004
E-mail: smithfield@ufcw.org

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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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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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