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Democracy for New Mexico
Camp out area at UNM, Occupy Burque
The occupations continue. According to by Lora Lucero on Facebook, about a dozen young people spent the night of October 1 camped out near the corner of Central and University Avenue in Albuquerque after the day's demonstrations. Taking turns, they plan to occupy the space for the foreseeable future.
9/10: NM Public Employees and Allies March to Defend Fair Labor Contracts, Expose Hidden Agenda of Gov. Martinez
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Democracy for New Mexico
From CWA Local 7076, AFSCME Council 18:
Public Employees and their allies will march in Santa Fe on Saturday, September 10th, from 11:30-12:30 PM to deliver our message, “Support Public Employees and Services, Negotiate Fair Labor Contracts,” and expose the hidden agenda of the Martinez Administration. We will be marching from 2010 Cerrillos Road to the State Personnel Office at 2600 Cerrillos Rd. (meeting in front of Jambo Café, 2010 Cerrillos, at 11:30, walking down Cerrillos to State Personnel Office, 2600 Cerrillos for 12-Noon event).
Saturday, Public Employees will be joined by the family of New Mexico Labor Unions, AFL-CIO, New Mexico Federation of Labor, IATSE, AFSCME, N.M. State Legislators, MoveOn.org, Working America, Interfaith Worker Justice-NM, Sierra Club, northern N.M. Central Labor Council, 1199 Nurses Union, IWW Albuquerque General Membership Branch, and more.
Over 10,000 New Mexico CWA, AFSCME and FOP Union Public Employees are public safety officers, teachers, nurses, social workers, environmental scientists and regulators, Dept. of Health Scientific Lab employees, transportation and corrections workers, park and monument rangers and museum staff.
Bloody Pullman StrikeDoes that headline sound overly harsh? Well, it needs to sound that way.
In recent years Republicans around the country have almost made a fetish out of appropriating progressive heroes, martyrs and symbols, using them for their own snively purposes. Newt Gingrich insisted that FDR was really espousing Republican ideals. Later, some Republicans quite baldly insisted that Martin Luther King Jr. was functionally one of their own (he was, actually, pro-labor union). GOP partisans even have claimed John F. Kennedy as kindred, because he once cut taxes (as if Democrats up to and including Obama have never done that before or since).
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