Team Garcetti, a set on Flickr.
Photographs of Mayor elect Eric Garcetti and his campaign team from January through June 30, 2013.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Teamster Nation: Walmart says it won't spy on workers anymore
Teamster Nation: Walmart says it won't spy on workers anymore: We'll see about that. At least for now, Walmart and its public relations firm say they won't spy illegally on their workers.
Tuesday Night in the Blogosphere
Los Angeles City Hall with Joye Long
The Last Trace of a Great Newspaper - Barron's
OC Register to launch daily Irvine newspaper - The Fresno Bee
Newspapers’ TV purchases may backfire comeback plans - Wan-Ifra
‘Where is my newspaper?’ We’re doing our best - Vernon Broadcaster
Senator Wants Government to Decide Who is a Journalist - Technorati
Demise of daily newspaper has consequences beyond tradition - Oregonian
Reporters at GateHouse withhold bylines after editor is laid off - Romenesko
Diversifying Away From Newspapers and Into TV Stations - Smallcap Network
Newspapers are doing so poorly that television looks like better bet - Investor Place
Today in Labor History
July 02 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962
President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964
The Labor Dept. reports that U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs over the prior month, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent - 2009
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962 ~De
Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices FULL MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jazb24Q2s94
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962
President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964
The Labor Dept. reports that U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs over the prior month, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent - 2009
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Ark. By 2012 the company had 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names, employing more than 2 million people. It is known in the U.S. and most of the other countries in which it operates for low wages and extreme anti-unionism - 1962 ~De
Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices FULL MOVIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jazb24Q2s94
Teamsters in Action for Alzhiemer's
Teamsters in Action, a set on Flickr.
Last Saturday the Teamsters Horsemen Motorcycle Association Chapter 42 organized a fund raiser to find a cure for Alzheimer's, raising several thousand dollars for this worthy cause. The weather was sweltering as the humidity soared, making it a rather uncomfortable event, yet the crowd endured the heat, even in their leather outfits. Great job ladies and gentlemen.
Are Newspaper Publishers Needed?
As a child growing up in Alhambra, California I still recall
seeing newspapers throughout our home, my grandmother was an avid reader, and
would spend hours with the broadsheet spread open. My grandfather and my father
both worked for the Los Angeles Times, so the Times was always readily
available.
My grandparents and parents have all moved on to heaven, yet
I have continued the tradition of always having a newspaper in my household,
just doesn’t feel right not having the hardcopy nearby. Unfortunately after
moving from San Dimas to La Puente I had to discontinue my subscription to The
Daily Bulletin as I live too far west for their delivery area. I still have two
newspapers delivered daily, the Los Angeles Times and the San Gabriel Valley
Tribune, with LA Weekly delivered via snail mail.
My personal tenure at the Los Angeles Times ran from 1972 to
2011, with the 1970’s and 80’s the heyday for the newspaper. During my first
two decades at the newspaper several presidents would visit the newspaper, with
the pope himself coming to pay Times Mirror Square a visit, those days of
politicians visiting the newspaper seem to have become but a memory.
Newspapers have attempted to adapt and retain readers and
advertisers to no avail as the Internet age continues to expand, and pull
subscribers away, leaving the base readership over forty years of age. So it’s
easy to understand newspapers are not dying, their readers are.
The CEO of the new Tribune Company, Peter Liguori, is investing
$2.7 billion in the television industry and nothing in newspapers, which
reveals the future profits of this fading industry. With a possible tax bill of
$250 to $500 million hanging over the new Tribune Company, would anyone really
be interested in purchasing the newspapers under the control of this media
giant?
Unfortunately cutting costs at newspapers has taken priority
at a newspaper near you, as the sinking ships scramble to remain afloat in the
rough waters of the Internet, with many sinking into memory. Staffs have been
sacrificed, with many papers resorting to scaling back production to publishing
three or four days per week as their circulation continues the downward trend.
Mr. Liguori has some very tough decisions to make regarding
the Tribune newspapers and making their appeal to a possible buyer inviting,
one area that I’ve never heard mentioned is the publisher position. Are
newspaper publishers really a position that is needed, or have they outgrown
their usefulness?
The savings of eliminating all Tribune newspaper publishers
would not save the newspapers from the inevitable, but it will add a few years
of life to this struggling industry.
Monday, July 01, 2013
Monday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
My view from City Hall Los Angeles
Arrested For Bottled Water-Buying - Advice Goddess
No more newspaper reservations for you! - Romenesko
Start the Presses: The Sun sets on Pasadena - Pasadena Sun
TV market consolidates further with Tribune deal - Gannett Blog
Koch Pledge Tied to Congressional Climate Inaction - The New Yorker
Deal makes Tribune largest commercial TV owner in U.S. - Chicago Business
NY Times Blogger Demanded Travel and Expenses from Companies - Gawker
Does Tribune purchase of TV stations impact its newspaper sale? - Mark Lacter
Brazil: More turn to independent media after newsroom layoffs - Editors Weblog
GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy.
We will do so through their union local or their national union if they
establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone
knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different
increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this
cause. Thugs giving hugs!
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GRANITE MOUNTAIN HOTSHOTS MEMORIAL FUND
All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy. We will do so through their union local or their national union if they establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this cause. Thugs giving hugs!
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All proceeds here go to a memorial fund for the heroes of this tragedy. We will do so through their union local or their national union if they establish a fund. We are trying to find their Local's number if anyone knows it please let us know. Below are the paypal links in different increments. Give in whatever amount you like. Every dime goes to this cause. Thugs giving hugs!
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Today in Labor History
July 01 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The American Flint Glass workers union is formed, headquartered in Pittsburgh. It was to merge into the Steelworkers 140 years later, in 2003 - 1873
Steel workers in Cleveland begin what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts - 1885
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. Seven strikers and three Pinkertons killed as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs to protect strikebreakers - 1892
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers stages what is to become an unsuccessful 3-month strike against U.S. Steel Corp. Subsidiaries - 1901
One million railway shopmen strike - 1922
Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up - 1929
(The Lexicon of Labor: If
you’ve never quite understood all the major legislative acts affecting
labor, like Taft-Hartley or Davis-Bacon or Walsh-Healy; if you need a
better understanding of key labor figures like Mother Jones, Sam
Gompers, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez and George Meany; if terms like
"Boulwarism," "maquiladora" or "zipper clause" beg for explanation; if
you need to know exactly when the first Labor Day parade or sit-down
strike occurred, this is the book for you.)
In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working condition improvements. They won all their demands, including a union shop - 1956
National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance Employees, United Federation of Postal Clerks, National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees & National Association of Special Delivery Messengers merge to become American Postal Workers Union - 1971
Int’l Jewelry Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1980
Graphic Arts Int’l Union merges with Int’l Printing & Graphic Communications Union to become Graphic Communications Int’l Union, now a conference of the Teamsters - 1983
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt
repeatedly
deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over
the course of the strike, which broke the union - 1983
Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merges with Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees - 1995
Int’l Chemical Workers Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union - 1996
The Newspaper Guild merges with Communications Workers of America - 1997
United American Nurses affiliate with the AFL-CIO - 2001
The American Flint Glass workers union is formed, headquartered in Pittsburgh. It was to merge into the Steelworkers 140 years later, in 2003 - 1873
Steel workers in Cleveland begin what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts - 1885
Homestead, Pa., steel strike. Seven strikers and three Pinkertons killed as Andrew Carnegie hires armed thugs to protect strikebreakers - 1892
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers stages what is to become an unsuccessful 3-month strike against U.S. Steel Corp. Subsidiaries - 1901
One million railway shopmen strike - 1922
Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming," Bennie Martin later recalled, "one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’" Martin and his wife fed any striker who showed up - 1929
(The Lexicon of Labor: If
you’ve never quite understood all the major legislative acts affecting
labor, like Taft-Hartley or Davis-Bacon or Walsh-Healy; if you need a
better understanding of key labor figures like Mother Jones, Sam
Gompers, John L. Lewis, Cesar Chavez and George Meany; if terms like
"Boulwarism," "maquiladora" or "zipper clause" beg for explanation; if
you need to know exactly when the first Labor Day parade or sit-down
strike occurred, this is the book for you.)In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working condition improvements. They won all their demands, including a union shop - 1956
National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance Employees, United Federation of Postal Clerks, National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees & National Association of Special Delivery Messengers merge to become American Postal Workers Union - 1971
Int’l Jewelry Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1980
Graphic Arts Int’l Union merges with Int’l Printing & Graphic Communications Union to become Graphic Communications Int’l Union, now a conference of the Teamsters - 1983
Copper miners begin a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Ariz. Democratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt
repeatedly
deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over
the course of the strike, which broke the union - 1983Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merges with Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees - 1995
Int’l Chemical Workers Union merges with United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union - 1996
The Newspaper Guild merges with Communications Workers of America - 1997
United American Nurses affiliate with the AFL-CIO - 2001
A Fireman's Prayer
Thoughts and prayers for the firefighters, their families and the people of Yarnell Hill.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Friday Night in the Blogosphere
Times Mirror Square from the top of City Hall today
95% of Citysearch Laid Off, Leaked Email Reveals - Eater
Gannett Government Media orders Q3 furloughs - Gannett Blog
AFL-CIO Presses Tribune to Shelve Newspaper Sale - The Street
Newspaper chain McClatchy orders more furloughs - Romenesko
Enterprise Zone Bill Goes to Governor’s Desk - Frying Pan News
The latest “life-saving” proposition for newspapers - Editors Weblog
The New York Times Final Surrender: Boston Globe Sale - 24/7 Wall St.
Profit at L.A. Times owner Tribune Co. plummets 41% - Los Angeles Times
Publisher Threatens to Close Newark Star-Ledger - Newspaper Death Watch
LA Times layoffs hit graphics team hard
From Editor Davan Maharaj and Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin
To the staff:
We’ve just completed a modest round of staff reductions.
Losing even a small number of colleagues is difficult. Losing them in a close-knit newsroom where we all work together for a common purpose is even harder.
But it does not alter our mission or our focus on the future.
We will continue to reshape the newsroom to enhance our digital report, from breaking news to narrative and investigative projects. That will require us to keep developing our multimedia skills--within the newsroom and with new recruits.
The redesign of latimes.com is set to launch this fall. It will greatly enhance the reader experience and give us a wealth of new tools for presenting stories, graphics, photos and video. The redesign will build on recent improvements, such as the new template for Column One, the groundbreaking work of our data team and our steadily expanding real-time coverage of the news.
We’re both available to respond to questions or concerns.
--Davan and Marc
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
To the staff:
We’ve just completed a modest round of staff reductions.
Losing even a small number of colleagues is difficult. Losing them in a close-knit newsroom where we all work together for a common purpose is even harder.
But it does not alter our mission or our focus on the future.
We will continue to reshape the newsroom to enhance our digital report, from breaking news to narrative and investigative projects. That will require us to keep developing our multimedia skills--within the newsroom and with new recruits.
The redesign of latimes.com is set to launch this fall. It will greatly enhance the reader experience and give us a wealth of new tools for presenting stories, graphics, photos and video. The redesign will build on recent improvements, such as the new template for Column One, the groundbreaking work of our data team and our steadily expanding real-time coverage of the news.
We’re both available to respond to questions or concerns.
--Davan and Marc
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
LA Times changes up the home page - LA Observed
LA Times changes up the home page - LA Observed
By the way, I don't think this is necessarily related, but the layoff winds are blowing through the Los Angeles Times newsroom again. Staffers are chattering about grim meetings and what seem to be lists being drawn up. Accurate or not, the fear level is definitely rising, and morale already pretty much sucked outside of a chosen few. When you are for sale, and the print product each morning is the thinnest in memory, those things happen.
--Kevin Roderick
By the way, I don't think this is necessarily related, but the layoff winds are blowing through the Los Angeles Times newsroom again. Staffers are chattering about grim meetings and what seem to be lists being drawn up. Accurate or not, the fear level is definitely rising, and morale already pretty much sucked outside of a chosen few. When you are for sale, and the print product each morning is the thinnest in memory, those things happen.
--Kevin Roderick
Today in Labor History*
June 28 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Birthday of machinist Matthew Maguire, who many believe first suggested Labor Day. Others believe it was Peter McGuire, a carpenter - 1850
President Grover Cleveland signs legislation declaring Labor Day an official U.S. holiday - 1894
The federal government sues the Teamsters to force reforms on the union, the nation's largest. The following March, the government and the union sign a consent decree requiring direct election of the union's president and creation of an Independent Review Board - 1988
*Teamsters
Birthday of machinist Matthew Maguire, who many believe first suggested Labor Day. Others believe it was Peter McGuire, a carpenter - 1850
President Grover Cleveland signs legislation declaring Labor Day an official U.S. holiday - 1894The federal government sues the Teamsters to force reforms on the union, the nation's largest. The following March, the government and the union sign a consent decree requiring direct election of the union's president and creation of an Independent Review Board - 1988
*Teamsters
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Gannett Blog: Indy | Sports department gets big shake-up
Gannett Blog: Indy | Sports department gets big shake-up: In the restructuring, veteran staffers were reassigned, and two high-profile beats are up for grabs. Plus, content changes at The Indianapo...
Weiland Brewery Closing June 30 - Los Angeles Downtown News - For Everything Downtown L.A.!: News
Weiland Brewery Closing June 30 - Los Angeles Downtown News - For Everything Downtown L.A.!: News
Another Los Angeles Times party held at Weiland Brewery.
Another Los Angeles Times party held at Weiland Brewery.
Victor Banuelos, Owen Brennan, Edward, Liz Mercado, and Tony Ramirez
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
Redondo Beach, CA.
The Death of Paper Media - The Daily Star
Newspaper jobs continue to decline - The Citizen
Future of major newspapers about to change - USA Today
Still Room in San Diego for More Media - Voice of San Diego
Do You Still Read the Newspapers? [POLL] - New Jersey 101.5
Introducing the Long Beach Post's Active Print Edition - Long Beach Post
Is state money for newspaper advertising a ‘subsidy’? - Wisconsin Reporter
WaPo wants the right to fire anyone for any reason, says union - Romenesko
Tribune's disclosure of capital gains tax has no immediate impact - Moody's
Snowden Storm: How Much Damage to International Relations? - Newspaper Alum
Today in Labor History
June 27 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869
The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a 12-day-long convention in Chicago. The Wobbly motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." - 1905
Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, creating the structure for collective bargaining in the United States - 1935
(The Labor Law Source Book: Texts of 20 Federal Labor Laws: A very handy collection that puts the full texts of all the
major
U.S. labor laws into one book. Includes the National Labor Relations
Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act,
Family and Medical Leave Act and 15 more. The full, actual language of
each law is presented—without elaboration by the editor—and a helpful
topic finder at the back of the book tells you which laws apply to basic
concerns and classes of workers.)
A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers—the first such walkout in 50 years—ends with a 5-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains - 1985
A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers in Decatur, Ill. The lockout was to last two and one-half years - 1993
Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869
The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a 12-day-long convention in Chicago. The Wobbly motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." - 1905
Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, creating the structure for collective bargaining in the United States - 1935
(The Labor Law Source Book: Texts of 20 Federal Labor Laws: A very handy collection that puts the full texts of all the
major
U.S. labor laws into one book. Includes the National Labor Relations
Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act,
Family and Medical Leave Act and 15 more. The full, actual language of
each law is presented—without elaboration by the editor—and a helpful
topic finder at the back of the book tells you which laws apply to basic
concerns and classes of workers.)A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers—the first such walkout in 50 years—ends with a 5-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains - 1985
A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers in Decatur, Ill. The lockout was to last two and one-half years - 1993
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Nelson Mandela Rest in Peace
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as the President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was the Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
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A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner nationalists of the National Party came to power in 1948 and began implementing the policy of apartheid, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was elected President of the Transvaal ANC Branch and oversaw the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961 but was found not guilty. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the South African Communist Party he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a bombing campaign against government targets. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, first on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990 amid escalating civil strife. Becoming ANC President, Mandela published his autobiography and led negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory. He was elected President and formed a Government of National Unity in an attempt to diffuse ethnic tensions. As President, he established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki, subsequently becoming an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Controversial for much of his life, right-wing critics denounced Mandela as a terrorist and communist sympathiser. He has nevertheless received international acclaim for his anti-colonial and anti-apartheid stance, having received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name of Madiba or as tata; he is often described as "the father of the nation".
More at Wikipedia
Music video by The Specials AKA performing Nelson Mandela.
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A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner nationalists of the National Party came to power in 1948 and began implementing the policy of apartheid, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was elected President of the Transvaal ANC Branch and oversaw the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961 but was found not guilty. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the South African Communist Party he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a bombing campaign against government targets. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, first on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990 amid escalating civil strife. Becoming ANC President, Mandela published his autobiography and led negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory. He was elected President and formed a Government of National Unity in an attempt to diffuse ethnic tensions. As President, he established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki, subsequently becoming an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Controversial for much of his life, right-wing critics denounced Mandela as a terrorist and communist sympathiser. He has nevertheless received international acclaim for his anti-colonial and anti-apartheid stance, having received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name of Madiba or as tata; he is often described as "the father of the nation".
More at Wikipedia
Nelson Mandela Life Support Shut Down as Respected Humanitarian Dies Age 94
Music video by The Specials AKA performing Nelson Mandela.
Wednesday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
Newsroom Counts Fall Again - Media Post
Black and White and Red All Over - Swag Rag
Newspaper execs embrace online news delivery - USA Today
San Francisco Examiner sues San Francisco Chronicle - Poynter
State Senate Approves Enterprise Zone Overhaul - Frying Pan News
New York Times Set to Sell Globe for Fraction of Purchase - Bloomberg
Oregonian laid off an editor with cancer – and his wife, too - Romenesko
JS opens access to website, e-edition; after newspapers delivered late - JS
No, native advertising in print is not going to “save newspapers” - Paid Content
Koch Tribune Takeover Sparks Concerns at National Press Club - Media Matters
Egyptian workers were known to organize labor strikes
Even though they regarded the pharaoh as a kind of living god, Egyptian workers were not afraid to protest for better working conditions. The most famous example came in the 12th century B.C. during the reign of the New Kingdom pharaoh Ramses III. When laborers engaged in building the royal necropolis at Deir el-Medina did not receive their usual payment of grain, they organized one of the first recorded strikes in history. The protest took the form of a sit-in: The workers simply entered nearby mortuary temples and refused to leave until their grievances were heard. The gamble worked, and the laborers were eventually given their overdue rations.
Originally posted on: The History Channel
Today in Labor History
June 26 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike - 1894
The 189-mile-long St. Lawrence Seaway opens, making the Great Lakes accessible to Atlantic shipping. Thousands of laborers toiled for decades to make it happen; indirectly and directly, the Seaway today supports 75,000 jobs in Canada and 150,000 in the U.S. - 1959
Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike - 1894
The 189-mile-long St. Lawrence Seaway opens, making the Great Lakes accessible to Atlantic shipping. Thousands of laborers toiled for decades to make it happen; indirectly and directly, the Seaway today supports 75,000 jobs in Canada and 150,000 in the U.S. - 1959
Working Class Heroes shared Local 396 Womens Caucus's photo.
SOLIDARITY!!! ~De
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