Tidbits for March 28, 2011

1. World Federation of Trade Unions, Cuba, and Mexican Electrical Workers'
Forum. NYC

2. Re: US Auto Union Boss Warns of Weakened Power

3. Re: Two (2) Very Different Stories on Unemployment Benefits

4. Re: New Archeology Find Buries Theory on First Americans, Re-Opening a Gaping

5. Re: New Archeology Find Buries Theory on First Americans, Re-Opening a Gaping

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1.
There are no borders in the workers' struggle

Meet and hear from Gilda Chacon Bravo, World Federation
of Trade Unions, Cuba Humberto Montes de Oca Luna,
Interior Secretary, Mexican Electrical Workers (SME)

Tuesday, March 29 6:30 pm SEIU/Local 1199 330 W. 43rd
St. 7th floor between 8th and 9th Avenues NY, NY

for more information or to donate go to:
LaborExchange.blogspot.com

Initiatated by the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange, Union del
Barrio and International Action Center

Supported by the World Federation of Trade Unions

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2.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
From: John Kretzschmar
Re: US Auto Union Boss Warns of Weakened Power

Unions have enough to deal with without outrageous
unfair and untrue stereotypes casually passed on like
"union boss." A boss is unelected. A boss is a
dictator. Neither applies to elected leaders of
organized labor institutions.

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3.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
From: Cyril Robinson
Re: Two (2) Very Different Stories on Unemployment Benefits

That's the idea- kick them when they're down. Squeeze
the lemon till its dry. There's also the idea that you
can't get money from a stone. But putting expressions
aside, the purpose of unemployment insurance is to bide
employees over a period of general unemployment. But it
is not only to benefit the individual but to give the
whole economy a lift. Unemployment insurance was passed
after the Great Depression to save the country, not
only individual workers. High sustained unemployment
affects not only workers but their families, small
businesses, neighborhoods, unions, and political
parties that receive donations from these individuals
and organizations.

Cyril Robinson, emeritus professor

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4.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
From: Jean C. Bond
Re: New Archeology Find Buries Theory on First Americans, Re-Opening a Gaping Mystery

What about Ivan Van Sertima's book, They Came Before
Columbus, about the African presence in ancient
America? Does the archeological community dismiss that
study? I suggest you contact David Brion Davis (he
wrote the forward to the just-released Atlas of the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade) who might have some
comments of interest on this "new" puzzlement.

Sincerely,
Jean Carey Bond

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5.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
From: Charles
Re: New Archeology Find Buries Theory on First Americans, Re-Opening a Gapin...

In a message dated 3/27/2011 9:40:35 P.M. Pacific
Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

    As James Adovasio, the executive director
    of the Mercyhurst Archaeological
    Institute, told NPR, "Everything we're
    learning now, from genetics, from
    linguistic data, from geological data,
    from archaeological data, suggests that
    the peopling process is infinitely more
    complicated than we might have imagined
    50 years ago, or even 20 years ago."
 
Very true.

As one who came out of academia many years ago, I can
tell you that it is not uncommon for hard evidence that
goes against the grain of what is currently
"politically correct" to be buried in archives,
languishing for many years in some cases, only to now
slowly begin to emerge into the quasi mainstream news
channels.

Not just here in North America. but in various regions
of Central and South America, and parts of Asia / SE
Asia. the "traditional" Eurocentric view of actual
anthropological history is in for some serious
upheavals and revisions.

It's about time a glimpse from "outside the box" of
traditionally enforced academic doctrine gets a bit
more real attention, but as I often suggest, truth has
a way of becoming manifest over time

Charles

Berkeley

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