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What we need to learn from the French workers and how our corporate media spin it.UPDATE(5/30)...Is there a total news blackout now?

This is from the Socialist Workerand has their slant if any: Huge strikes shut France down—and could bring government to its knees

Transgender man beaten to death in Vermont

Amos Beede, 38, was a homeless transgender man residing (if, in fact, a homeless man can be said to reside anywhere) in Vermont. Amos was found on the ground near a homeless encampment, unconscious, on May 23.

Beede suffered head trauma, including facial fractures, multiple blunt force injuries to his face and head and a number of broke ribs, police said. He had been diagnosed with bleeding on the brain known as a subdural hematoma.

Are you prepared to create & wield political power. I am, and I will will tell you how....

What did Bernie just show us all? WE ARE THE CAMPAIGN......

Bernies online campaign tools are an exponential leap beyond anything we've seen. What do we do now? Learn field operations, run for office. Attend a Camp Wellstone campaign training. If you want to wield political power, you need to know how to run a campaign. If you're going to run for office you need to learn how to be a candidate.

What We Should Remember this Memorial Day Weekend

On that Christmas Day Company I, First Platoon, was very hard hit. My good friend Oliver Coghill was on my right and a buddy named Palko was next to him. Both were killed, and I could hear Lieutenant Lawson calling for his mother.

- Excerpt from the written account of the combat experiences of Darrell Burdette Searls, former infantry soldier in Company I of the 290th Regiment of the 75th Division, United States Army, 1944-1945

Waking up from the long sleep?

Gopal Balakrishnan:

On numerous occasions since the 90s the left has rallied to a center-right candidate to ward off the far-right and the results have been disastrous. Not only is the far right strengthened by bolstering its credentials as the only real opposition force to the establishment, the left is drastically weakened at the expense of the center-right.

Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones on Hideous Conditions Of Child Slavery in Southern Cotton Mills


"Of such is the kingdom of Heaven,"
said the great teacher.
Well, if Heaven is full of undersized,
round shouldered, hollow-eyed,
listless, sleepy little angel children,
I want to go to the other place with the bad little boys and girls.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 29, 1906
From The Labor World: Mother Jones on Child Labor

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Reality Check: Hillary will face no legal consequences for email scandal

Unlike TOP, this site will remain reality-based, and that goes double for presidential politics.
With that in mind, we need to acknowledge that while Hillary obviously broke the law, she will never suffer from this offense.

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