* Congressional Listening Tour - Speakout For Good Jobs Now
  New York - June 30
* Correction Re: Life Expectancy in Most US Counties Falls
  Behind  World's Healthiest Nations
* Re: Apple Store Workers Share Why They Want to `Work
  Different' (Jeremy Gantz)
* Re: Why the Labor Movement is Not Just Another Protest
  Movement (Thane Doss and John Marrone)
* Global unions launch campaign to defend public services
  (The Council of Global Unions)
* Re: Trouble on the German Left: Israel and Anti-Semitism
  (Irving Lee)

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* Congressional Listening Tour - Speakout For Good Jobs Now

When:  Thursday, Jun 30, 2011, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.  (Doors open
at 5:00 PM)

Where:     Hostos Community College
           500 Grand Concourse Bronx NY 10451

Join ...   Rep. Charlie Rangel, Rep. Yvette Clark, Rep.
Jerrold Nadler, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA - invited), and
possibly other members of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, for this important Town Hall meeting.

More Americans are falling out of the middle class than are
joining it. These Representatives want to hear the
priorities of everyday Americans as a first step towards
building America's greatest asset-its middle class.   It's
time this country worked again for people who work for a
living.  The Speakout for Good Jobs Now tour will feature
stops in numerous cities across America giving Americans the
chance to speak out about how the economy is affecting them.

Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will listen
to what everyday Americans have to say and take that back to
Washington with them as they continue to fight to
reinvigorate the American Dream - the ability to put in a
day's hard work for good wages and benefits so we can
provide our children with a better future.

This event is sponsored by ProgressiveCongress.org and
endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America.  Rep. Keith
Ellison and Rep. Raul Grijalva co-chair the Progressive
Caucus and are co-chairing the national tour.

Unemployed people can share their story and/or sign up to
testify at www.UnitedNY.org

Text NYC to 228466 to get New York City event reminders  .
Download June 30 Event Flyer at www.JobsCampaign.org or
www.DriveForDecentWork.org

For more information on the national Speakout for Good Jobs
Tour, visit:  SpeakoutTour.com.

PS  Watch excellent Van Jones video on Rebuilding the
American Dream at http://youtu.be/ToAm6bnYfsM

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* Correction Re: Life Expectancy in Most US Counties Falls
Behind  World's Healthiest Nations

The URL for this post was omitted Sunday night. Here it is:

http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/news-release/life-expectancy-in-us-counties-2011

Moderator

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* Re: Apple Store Workers Share Why They Want to `Work
Different'

Could you please provide listserv subscribers with the link
to where the story originally appeared -- in this case,
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11557/apple_store_workers_share_why_they_want_to_work_different/ --

rather than where it was reprinted?

I should that we here at In These Times are grateful for how
frequently our stories are sent out to the listserv.

Many thanks,

Jeremy

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* Re: Why the Labor Movement is Not Just Another Protest
Movement

It is curious that Mr. Burns completes his article without
mention of socialism, and that he describes the labor
movement as rooted in the workplace, rather than in the
community. As long as the community is indifferent to unions
and unionism, ways can be found to replace disgruntled
workers and squeaky wheels without concessions on wages and
benefits. The Boron action was especially effective because
nearly the entire community consisted of laborers for the
company, and unlike an auto manufacturing plant, a mine
can't simply be uprooted and moved to another state (or
country) where a hungry population willing to work for less
and indifferent or hostile toward unions can be found. While
the workplace-located guild cannot be ignored in the
traditions of trade unionism, the formation of
international brotherhoods (apologies for the historical
gendering) of labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries is arguably the beginning of modern trade
unionism, the thing that distinguishes it from the previous
existence of local craft guilds.

The existence of labor and socialist parties in so many
countries is testament that unionism has long had an
extensive root system outside of the workplace. The majority
of readers of Portside are probably aware of most of this
history, but i doubt that restatement is a a real affront. A
rededication to this location of unionism within the global
community is necessary if neoliberalism and the worst
manifestations of globalization are to be countered from the
bottom up. (I say this fully recognizing that local battles
in many areas are so critical that energy and attention for
expanding the scope of the movement may be difficult to
find.)

Arguably, it was the US's post-World-War-II vision of itself
as exceptional, with an attendant severing of many
international union ties, that made rapid installation of
neocolonial globalization as "the" nearly unconsciously
accepted economic system possible. To the extent that
international limbs of the labor movement still require
reconnection, the world labors yet under the legacy of
McCarthyism and the Cold War.

Thane Doss, 
Tokyo

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* Re: Why the Labor Movement is Not Just Another Protest
Movement

a Very Good Read!!!

John Marrone

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* Global unions launch campaign to defend public services

http://www.nupge.ca/content/4374/global-unions-launch-campaign-defend-public-services

In the face of mounting threats to public services around
the world, the Council of Global Unions is launching a
campaign to defend and promote the value of public services.

Ottawa (23 June 2011) - The Council of Global Unions, an
organization that represents 175 million workers around the
world, is launching the worldwide Quality Public Services -
Action Now! campaign today. The aim is to advance public
services for all people through unprecedented coordinated
action across borders.

From Canada to the Middle East, Europe to Asia, South
America to Africa, the United States to the Pacific Rim -
private and public sector unions are uniting to defend the
quality public services that support families and keep
communities strong.

"When we look around the world today, we find peace and
improved equality and opportunity only in countries where
strong public services provide equitable redistribution of
wealth, protect democracy and deliver security, justice and
decent work," Council of Global Unions chair Peter Waldorff
said.

NUPGE is a proud and active affiliate of Public Services
International which is a member of the Council of Global
Unions.

"NUPGE strongly supports this important campaign," said
James Clancy, NUPGE national president. "It's crucial that
people around the world work together to promote public
services and tax fairness as the best way to build an
equitable and sustainable economy and improve the quality of
life for everyone - not just a selected few," said Clancy.

NUPGE has been running a national campaign in Canada for the
last year called All Together Now! The campaign promotes
investment in public services as a key solution to the
economic crisis and improving living standards for all
families.

The campaign also promotes the need for tax fairness by
calling for an end to the shifting of taxes from
corporations and the super-rich to working families.

 NUPGE

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)
is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over
340,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of
working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring
our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE

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* Re: Trouble on the German Left: Israel and Anti-Semitism

The opposition to Israel and Zionism is anti-apartheid and
anti-imperialist. Zionist supported racial separation with
the Nazis which led to the Transfer agreement to Palestine
in 1933. The Zionist saw Hitler's rise to power as an
opportunity. So to describe the opposition to Zionism as
anti-semetic is absurd. Arabs are Semites themselves so they
are fighting against a form European colonialism. The left
need not apologize for their opposition to Israel. It was
the left and communist movements that were and currently the
vanguard in the struggle against Fascism. The Zionist
leadership collaborated.

Irving Lee

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