An Important Email from Alan Grayson. Worth reading IMHO.

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BigBearJohn  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-12-11 04:24 AM
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An Important Email from Alan Grayson. Worth reading IMHO.
   
On May 4, 1886, in Haymarket Square in Chicago, the public rallied peacefully in support of 40,000 workers in Chicago who had gone on strike, to win the right to organize. The police attacked, and eight died.

On July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, 3800 workers went on strike, to win the right to organize. Three hundred hired and armed goons attacked them. Five people died.

On April 20, 1914, in Ludlow, Colorado, 1200 coal miners went on strike, to win the right to organize. The Colorado National Guard attacked their shantytown, and burned it to the ground. Nineteen people died. Two women and 11 children were asphyxiated, and they burned to death.
Here and around the world, many people have fought and died, so that you and I would have the right to organize.
And so that 250,000 public workers in Wisconsin would have that right, too.

This is not exactly a new idea. Six months after the Ludlow Massacre, President Wilson signed the Clayton Act, prohibiting the prosecution of union members under Antitrust Law. That was almost a century ago.

Two decades later, during the Franklin Roosevelt's first term as President, he signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. It protects the right to organize. That was over 75 years ago.

The right to organize also is a fundamental principle of international law. Over 150 countries have ratified the "Right to Organize" Convention, an international treaty. It was adopted in 1949, over 60 years ago.

So why are we even talking about this, 11 years into the 21st Century?

Because the teabaggers want to "take back America." They want to take it back, all right – take it all the way back to the 19th century. When there was no right to organize. When people worked for a dollar a day. When grown men competed against children for jobs. When women were barred from most jobs entirely. When you worked until you died.

Not to mention slavery.

I want to see an America that is healthy and wealthy.

They want an America that provides cheap labor to our corporate overlords. An America where the middle class is chained by debt.
We didn't ask for this fight. But we have no choice except to fight back. For the survival of the middle class in America. For us, for our children, and for our grandchildren. And so that the victims in Haymarket, in Homestead and in Ludlow did not die in vain.
As Cardinal Spellman said 45 years ago, "it is a war thrust upon us, and we cannot yield to tyranny."

I'm ready to fight for what's right. What about you?

Courage,
Alan Grayson

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x622333

What an idiot, thank God the voters put him on the unemployment line last fall.

grahamhgreen  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-12-11 07:27 AM
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3. Please run in 2012 so we can frame the debate on real issues. Please!
   

Yeah please do run again Alan remind the people just what a nutbag you are.

libodem  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-12-11 10:09 AM
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9. Alan Grayson
   
Has my utmost respect.

Funny you love a guy who edits a video so it sounds like his opponent said something he didn't, yet Beck is a liar when he plays non altered audio and video of people on the left that exposes their agenda.

[Traveshamockery]

The admiration the DUmp has for the dishonest and certifiably insane Alan Grayson is very indicative of their dishonesty and lack of common sense. 

[Vagabond]

Unions and the left are fighting against the flow of history.  There was no legislation protecting minimum wages, or mandating worker protection, or mandating proper disposal of hazardous chemicals at the time of those events.  Now, laws are in place and most companies realize the benefits of a trained and experienced workforce.  

Liberals are the ones that want to keep people from reaching their potential.

[Freeper]

Unions and the left are fighting against the flow of history.  There was no legislation protecting minimum wages, or mandating worker protection, or mandating proper disposal of hazardous chemicals at the time of those events.  Now, laws are in place and most companies realize the benefits of a trained and experienced workforce.  

Liberals are the ones that want to keep people from reaching their potential.

Of course libs do not want people reaching their potential. Once a person reaches in at least some measure their potential, the libs are needed for hand outs, job protection for slackers, and all goodies that they can vote for themselves. If people are self sufficient, and make it on their own they do not need, nor do they want the govt involved. If the govt isn't involved then those in power lose power and can no longer buy votes by dangling baby carrots on a string, and having people who are conditioned to believe that they can't do it on their own run after those baby carrots. If the libs really cared about poor people they would focus on finding ways to empower the individual and give them the tools in order to go out and do something about their economic situation.

 

[Ballygrl]

Wasn't it FDR who was against federal workers being unionized?

[GOBUCKS]

It's really funny to see "important" and "Alan Grayson" in the same sentence!

[Freeper]

It's really funny to see "important" and "Alan Grayson" in the same sentence!

It was a typo, the DUmmy meant impotent.

[Randy]

It was a typo, the DUmmy meant impotent.

And said DUmmie would have been 101% correct.

You got the ^5 though.