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AFL-CIO Video: Your New Job (via Blog)

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BLOGPOST :: AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Barack Obama: Check out this barn burner of.. http://tinyurl.com/49uz9v (via

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What If Your Social Security Was in the Stock Market ?

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Submitted by Uppity Wisconsin on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 08:55.
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(Cross-posted from the AFL-CIO Now Blog. More than 96,000 people in Wisconsin receive Social Security and thousands more are nearing retirement.)

Monday’s stock market disaster, with the Dow plummeting 778 points—a larger drop than after the Sept. 11 attacks—may make Wall Street traders and billionaire hedge fund investors hyperventilate.

But imagine how much worse for the rest of us it would have been if, three years ago, President Bush and Sen. John McCain had succeeded in their efforts to privatize Social Security, gambling in the stock market funds that have been a guaranteed income for America’s retirees?

Many of our 401(k)s and pension plans took a hit yesterday—but no matter how our individual retirements fare on Wall Street, we would still have Social Security to back us up.

Not so if McCain became president.

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Big Union To Blitz Battlegrounds With 200,000 Anti-McCain Flyers During Convention Tomorrow Night

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 12:23.
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The AFL-CIO is readying a major anti-McCain blitz timed to McCain's big convention night tomorrow, unleashing 10,000 volunteers that will deliver fliers hitting McCain to some 200,000 households in five battleground states during the convention's final festivities.

Here's a look at the flyer, which hasn't been released yet and boasts a heavy emphasis on kitchen-table and trade issues (click on the image to enlarge):

The flyer seeks to directly counter-program McCain's message tomorrow, which (aside from POW-POW-POWing) will seek to paint him as a reformer with a career of independence from the GOP and a history of bucking George W. Bush.

To that end, it hits McCain on a triumvirate of economic issues: Health care, NAFTA, and Social Security. It emphasizes McCain's 26 years in Washington, the multitude of lobbyists working on or raising cash for his campaign, and the likelihood that McCain will continue Bush's economic policies.

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Final Post: I’m Back in Nashville

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Submitted by avalonfarmblog on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 21:35.
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By Marisa Richmond

I have finally returned home from the 2008 Democratic National Convention.  There was much speculation in the media, and among many private citizens, over what would happen at this year’s convention.  I think it is safe to say that we far exceeded everyone’s expectations for success.  I do need to tell you little more about my final day at the DNC before I turn to more general reflections.

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