UPDATE: GEO Wins Strike After Two Days of Picketing! | VIDEO: GEO Strike - start to finish
Despite the rain and cold, hundreds showed up on Monday, November 16, 2009 to join picket lines thrown up around several buildings on the quad at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After negotiations broke down over the weekend, the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) called for a strike. They have been without a contract for more than three months.
On the announcement Wednesday that Lou Dobbs will leave his post as a longtime anchor on CNN, Roberto Lovato of BastaDobbs.com said, “Lou Dobbs – who has a long record of spreading lies and conspiracy theories about immigrants and Latinos – does not belong on the 'Most Trusted Name in News.'" "We are thrilled that Dobbs no longer has this legitimate platform from which to incite fear and hate."
The BastaDobbs.com campaign, a national Latino-led coalition, was launched in mid-September, after Dobbs broadcast his radio show from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) conference, founded by white nationalist John Tanton. FAIR is designated as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Forty-five anti-immigration activists held a small rally outside the state capitol on Saturday. Counter-protest from members of Anti-Racist Action, Bash Back, the Minnesota Immigrants' Rights Action Coalition and others was frequent, vigorous and hilarious. ("America is not for Russians! America is not for Germans! Europeans go home!")
Media Spins Nov. 3rd GOP Victories as "Change Election"
Interview with Karl Frisch, senior fellow with the group Media Matters for America, conducted by Scott Harris
As the results of the Nov. 3 local and state elections poured into network and cable TV outlets, commentators were standing by to read the tea leaves of voter sentiment and what it could mean to the future of Democrats which now control Congress. The only two governors' races of the night were won by Republicans. Chris Christie defeated incumbent John Corzine in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by a wide margin in Virginia.
DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA,
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