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Sacramento rally to support Wisconsin workers on Tuesday
Posted on February 20, 2011 by jeffpelline
The California Labor Federation is sending this email around:
“We Are One” – Candlelight Vigil in Solidarity with Wisconsin Workers
Tuesday, February 22nd at 5:30pm
West Steps, State Capitol, Sacramento
Rallies. Crowds spilling into the streets. Seas of people marching together in solidarity. Every day this week, nonstop.
This isn’t happening in Egypt…but in Madison, Wis.
Schools are closed. Workers, high school and college students, community members, religious groups and concerned citizens have dropped their daily lives to rally against Gov. Scott Walker’s Draconian attacks on middle-class jobs and his proposal to strip Wisconsin teachers, nurses, social workers and other public employees of their collective bargaining rights.
Walker’s immediate attack is aimed directly at some 200,000 public workers—but the brave men and women taking to the streets come from every walk of life and recognize that all working people—public and private sector—are in jeopardy. And they know that if we don’t all speak out and stand together, we’ll all be targets.
JOIN US ON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22ND!
5:30pm at the State Capitol in Sacramento
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Wisconsin protests
Posted on February 20, 2011 by jeffpelline
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Soros: Fox News like Nazis in way it deceives people
Posted on February 20, 2011 by jeffpelline
On Sunday’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, billionaire George Soros accused Rupert Murdoch of using Fox News and his media empire to change the direction of government, as the DailyCaller.com reported.
“Well, look, Fox News makes a habit — it has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak, where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them,” Soros said. “And you wouldn’t believe that an open society and a democracy, these methods can succeed. But, actually, they did succeed. They succeeded in — in Germany, where the Weimar Republic collapsed and you had a Nazi regime follow it. So this is a very, very dangerous way of deceiving people. And I would like people to be aware that they are being deceived. Now, I — because I saw it as a child, I immediately react that way. But the people in America, they are innocent. They haven’t had the experience. They’re having the experience now. And I hope they wake up and they realize that they are being deceived.”
Host Fareed Zakaria also asked Soros about his thoughts of the Tea Party.
“Look, I think the people in the Tea Party are very decent people, hard-working. They have been hit by a force that they — that comes from somewhere which they can’t fully understand,” Soros said. “And they are being misled. And they are misled by people who are using it for their selfish purposes, namely to remove regulations and reduce taxation. So reduce taxation and regulation and they are being used and deceived.”
We watched the show too.
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