https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/
by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich
Washington, Jan 18, 2011
Speaking today on the House floor, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) opposed efforts to repeal health care reform and also renewed his call for a single-payer health care system.
See video [below]. The full text follows:
Image by Julia Manzerova via Flickr
Larry Holmes, WWP secretariat member, speaking at the Workers World Forum, Jan. 14, 2011, in New York.
by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
18 January, 2011
Image by codepinkhq via Flickr
For several years now, one organization in the US government has persistently undermined attempts to have a grown-up debate about the perceived dangerousness of prisoners at Guantánamo, and the need to bear security concerns in mind whilst also trying to empty the prison and to bring to an end this particularly malign icon of the Bush administration’s ill-conceived response to the 9/11 attacks.
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
January 17, 2011
Bob King, the new president of the United Auto Workers, whose membership is down under 400,000 from a peak of 1.5 million in 1979 is rolling out an initiative to organize foreign auto plants in the U.S., expand the union’s reach overseas and forge alliances with social justice organizations.
Ordinarily, the response to these ambitions would be “With What?” Few unions have been beaten down as much as the UAW whose workers enduring the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009 and a debt-burdened Ford Motor company. During this period the UAW gave up billions of dollars in wages and benefits. Thousands of workers were laid off to save these companies.
Dandelion Salad 