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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/24-12

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The Green Justice Coalition, Helping Labor and the Environment

Amy Dean, Truthout: 'According to Republican governors in places such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, our states are in crisis and the only solution is to squeeze middle-class employees. Unions, in their view, are part of the problem. And if you point out that their attempts to seize power in the name of balancing budgets do little, if anything, to solve the real economic problems we face, they will insist that there is no alternative.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-green-justice-coalition-helping-labor-and-environment68699



Buried Provision in House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps to Entire Families if One Member Strikes

Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: 'All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers' collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back. Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to 'provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.'

http://www.truth-out.org/buried-provision-in-house-gop-bill-would-cut-off-food-stamps-to-entire-families-if-one-member-strike



From Memphis to Madison: The April 4 Stand for Economic Justice

Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign For America's Future: 'On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968, but to recall what he was about to do on the day he was shot - and why the mission he was on that day very much matters to the struggle of working people (and those who want to become working people) today. King was in Memphis to support sanitation workers who were caught in a struggle with the city's mayor that was very similar to the battle that public employees in Wisconsin were fighting with Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the state legislature.'

http://www.truth-out.org/from-memphis-madison-the-april-4-stand-for-economic-justice68718

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Class Warfare Scoreboard: Guess Whos Winning?

By Mike Whitney

The corporate mukky-muks and financial alchemists have figured out how to fatten the bottom line without hiring workers. Great. So, you and I can spend our days watching soaps and panhandling at the freeway on-ramp, while moneybags speculators catch 9-holes at the Club. What a racket.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27811.htm



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