The Moral Monday protestors who were arrested were offered a deal, which many of them didn’t take: Although I have never met Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby, according to news reports he has kindly offered me a deal. To avoid Wake County’s mounting court costs, he wants me to forgo my court date Monday …
Enhanced Protest Techniques
This means the fast food strikes were a success
First, a little background on worker centers: Juan Campis was sweating in the 90-plus degree heat as he whipped a white towel across a gleaming black Chevy TrailBlazer at a carwash here—one of six in the city that was unionized in recent months with help from two nonprofit community groups. “They’re the ones that kept …
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Another message from Milwaukee
I asked commenter VidaLoca to give us an update on the fast food strikes and he was kind enough to do so. This report is from Saturday. I wrote you earlier this month about the events surrounding the second one-day strike of fast food workers here and the “walkback” actions that followed on August 1 …
Fight For 15
Some pictures of the Fight For 15 strikers, from their Twitter feed yesterday Here’s John Lewis in Atlanta. He said “thank you for finding a way to get in the way” The older fellows there are mineworkers: The National Retail Federation called the strikes “further proof that the labor movement (has) abdicated their role in …
He’s trying to make it where at least they can afford to live
McCrory and the future policy advisors celebrate on election night Source: Charlotte Observer photo donated to the. N.C State Archives h/t Young Republicans who helped elect North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory have been rewarded with big salaries in his new administration. Matthew McKillip was named this week as chief policy adviser to Health and Human …
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“Spy” Stories Are Boffo Boxoffice
(Mike Thompson via GoComics.com) Salon‘s Andrew O’Hehir, who usually reviews movies, calls for some cinematic political action: In an op-ed for the Guardian earlier this summer, Máiread Corrigan Maguire, an Irish activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and has devoted her life to working for peace in Northern Ireland and around the …
Let’s work hard to make it backfire on them
Rick Hasen, expert on all things voting related, has a good piece on the new restrictions in North Carolina: Until last month, 40 of North Carolina’s 100 counties were covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Fat chance the DOJ or a three-judge court would have given approval of House Bill 589, at …
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