AFSCME Council 25 President Al Garrett speaks at Feb. 23 rally in Lansing, called by Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson (left); State Sen. Coleman Young II is at right of photo
Commentary by Diane Bukowski:
THE MICHIGAN SENATE JUST PASSED ITS PACKAGE OF EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGER BILLS FEB. 9. THEY ARE NOW SET TO GO BACK TO THE HOUSE TO RESOLVE DISCREPANCIES, THEN TO GOV. RICK SNYDER’S DESK. HE IS FULLY EXPECTED TO SIGN THEM. THEY WILL MEAN DISASTER FOR OUR CITIES ACROSS THE STATE! (Read VOD story, Class war in Michigan, at http://voiceofdetroit.net/?p=4622 for information on the original set of House Bills.)
WE ARE AT WAR! TIME FOR US TO GO TO WAR BACK!, AS IN EGYPT, WISCONSIN AND ELSEWHERE. SNYDER IS NO DIFFERENT FROM WALKER, HE’S JUST DOING HIS FASCIST DIRT MORE UNDERCOVER, IN ALLIANCE WITH THE LEGISLATURE. RISE, YE MIGHTY LABOR MOVEMENT (WHAT’S LEFT OF US AFTER YEARS OF CONCESSIONS), OR THE NEXT STEP WILL BE CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR UNION LEADERS AS HAPPENED IN HITLER’S GERMANY.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WAS ACTUALLY A COMPACT BETWEEN LABOR AND THE CAPITALIST CLASS, NEGOTIATED IN THE 1930’S TO END THE MASSIVE WAVE OF SIT-DOWN STRIKES. IT PROVIDED A WAY FOR THE SYSTEM TO FORGE AHEAD WITH LABOR PEACE AND STILL RAKE IN HUGE PROFITS, CONDUCT UNENDING WARS, AND DEVASTATE OUR CITIES! IF IT IS NOW TO BE REMOVED, THERE MUST NO LONGER BE LABOR PEACE!
READ: NO MORE TRADITION’S CHAINS by clicking on No More Tradition’s Chains. It is a summary of labor history in this country, and the crisis now faced by the labor movement, as well as unorganized and unemployed workers.
WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS TO UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH OF THIS WAR, AS REPORTED BY MSNBC COMMENTATOR RACHEL MADDOW, AND BY MICHIGAN AFSCME COUNCIL 25 LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR HERBERT SANDERS. PUSH FOR THE APRIL 13 NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST INITIATED BY AFSCME TO BE MORE THAN JUST RALLIES–IT’S TIME FOR ALL OUT DIRECT CONFRONTATION WITH OUR ENEMIES. WE ARE MANY! THEY ARE FEW!
Rachel Maddow
RACHEL MADDOW
GOP STRATEGY: DISASTER CAPITALISM
Maddow discusses Michigan’s Emergency Financial Manager bills, and attacks by Governor Rick Snyder on the labor movement and working and poor people as a whole. Her guest is Naomi Kline, author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#41979558
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#41979418
Herbert Sanders speakers in Lansing on behalf of child care workers, who AFSCME organized; Snyder's new Director of Human Services, Maura Corrigan, has now issued an order banning union dues from being collected from home care workers paid by the state
AFSCME COUNCIL 25 official Herbert Sanders speaks in this video about the plethora of anti-labor, anti-poor bills that are being passed by the Michigan State Legislature, with the instigation and blessings of Gov. Rick Snyder. (Ed. note: working and poor people must mobilize independently of both the Republican and Democratic parties to fight this war; former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, led the attack on Detroit’s Public Schools under Robert Bobb, as detailed in the series of four posts below this article, by Russ Bellant.)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1448704477932
ORGANIZING MEETINGS FOR THE NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST EVERY WEDNESDAY, 5 P.M. AT AFSCME COUNCIL 25 HQ IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT, 600 W. LAFAYETTE (at Third); for futher info call 313-965-1711,
Public workers from AFSCME and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists protest outside CAYMC May 27, 2010
Thanks for posting, we are at war and its important that citizens realize the bomb falls on them also.