1 May Day Labor Film Festival - Bay Area
2 For Pete Seeger/Bob Dylan fans (Steve Willett)
3 Review of Rachel Maddow's Drift (James Williams)
4 Re: Game on: Obama Draws the Line 
  -- SLlewelyn Jones, Gordon Fitch, T.M. Scruggs
5 Re: Who Profits From Killing Pluto? 
  -- Robin W. Briehl, Richard Rosenthal, Dan Kane
6 Cuba Summer Tours for US Professionals

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10th May Day Labor Film Festival
April 28 - May 6, 2012
Bay Area
http://reelwork.org

Friday, April 27 at 7 pm

BROTHERS ON THE LINE (80 min) Director Sasha Reuther
will speak on the lives and legacy of the three Reuther
brothers - Walter, Roy and Victor - militant auto
workers turned union and civil rights champions. They
organized successful sit-down strikes - factory
occupations - in the 1930s. They helped transform the
labor movement into a formidable force for equality and
pioneered tactics adopted by today's Occupy movement.

BFUU Social Justice Committee - Berkeley Fellowship
Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar at Bonita, between
MLK/Shattuck http://www.bfuu.org/ 510-841-4824

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For Pete Seeger/Bob Dylan fans

There is a campaign to make Pete Seeger the oldest
musician to make it on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  See
the LA Times article:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/03/pete-seeger-forever-young-bob-dylan-amnesty-international.html

or go to the web site:

http://www.foreverpete.com/

Steve Willett

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Great cartoon review of Maddow's new book Drift:

http://tinyurl.com/c29j3dw

James H. Williams

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Re: Game on: Obama Draws the Line

Isn't this too much, too late?  I don't like his
manipulating me!

SLlewelyn Jones

---

    "This is the Obama that progressives have
    been calling for.  ..."

Oh, please.  We'll be getting truckloads of this stuff
from the mainstream media.  There is no reason for
Portside to be carrying it, too.

Gordon Fitch

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    "This is the Obama that progressives have been
    calling for. No more temporizing. No more backroom
    "grand bargain" negotiations with extremists intent
    on cutting taxes on the rich even if that requires
    gutting the investments vital to our future. Obama
    finally calls them out. ..."

"Finally" -- as in, "when the presidential campaign
begins." Meet the new Obama, same as the election year
2008 Obama. Yet so different from President Obama.
..."backroom "grand bargain" negotiations" -- they're
now on the back burner. Until 2013.

T.M. Scruggs

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Re: Who Profits From Killing Pluto?

Why did you choose this to print other than it is dated
April Fool's day?  Scientific American, once a superior
publication condensing science so the lay person can
understand while still maintaining scientific rigor, has
long since descended into simplicity and sometimes
meaningless but well advertised articles.  As a working
academic scientist, I have long since discontinued my
subscription, as have many others I know.

But that's not my main point.  Perhaps I am missing
something, but why did you publish something that does
nothing but drag in Dr. deGrasse Tyson in a poor effort
to be funny while attacking the banks?

Robin W. Briehl, MD

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This is silly. You haven't told me why one should care
enough about this guy for you to print this.

Richard Rosenthal

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You guys are loosing it. It's not close to funny. If
Pluto is out there ,your idea of humor is in another
solar system. Keep your day job. That is a 24hr earth
day.

Dan Kane

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