A new school year starts in a few weeks. I would appreciate if you would share this with your friends and help us make a positive change in some young people’s lives. The world of photography, photojournalism and broadcasting is a very exciting world. The students that we have taught so far in the class have gone to college.
We need your help to continue giving the students a positive outlet for their creative talents and to purchase more equipment for them to use and take them on photography’s fieldtrips helping them to see and understand that there is a world outside the world that most of them grow up in. A positive world that they can be a very positive part of!
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Minority Photo/Journalism Institute (MPJI) was established in 2004 to give underprivileged youth the opportunity to learn photography, photojournalism and broadcasting. The mission is to give young people an outlet to develop and see the results of their creative talents. In 2010 in conjunction...
Friday, August 15, 2014
This is what leadership looks like - Ferguson, Missouri,
On Thursday Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, marched with the protesters in Ferguson.
No tear gas or snipers were seen, and no problems arose, completely opposite from the last few days.
The state of Missouri needs to clean house and cleanse the current police department that views it's citizens as animals, not fellow Americans.
Today in Labor History
August 15 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
To begin what proved to become one of the world’s longest construction projects, workers lay the foundation stone of Germany’s Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men. The job was declared completed in 1880—632 years later - 1248
The Panama Canal opens after 33 years of construction and an estimated 22,000 worker deaths, mostly caused by malaria and yellow fever. The 51-mile canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - 1914
Populist social commentator Will Rogers killed in a plane crash, Point Barrow, Alaska. One of his many classic lines: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts" - 1935
(Workplace Jokes: Only SOME of Them Will Get You Fired!: Did you hear the one about the supervisor and the new employee who bump into each other in a bar? Maybe, but maybe not. In either case, you can find it and a couple hundred other great workplace jokes in this new collection, the only one of its kind. You won’t find working people as the butt of jokes here… it’s more likely to be the boss, the banker, the yes man and the union-busting lawyer.)
(Workplace Jokes: Only SOME of Them Will Get You Fired!: Did you hear the one about the supervisor and the new employee who bump into each other in a bar? Maybe, but maybe not. In either case, you can find it and a couple hundred other great workplace jokes in this new collection, the only one of its kind. You won’t find working people as the butt of jokes here… it’s more likely to be the boss, the banker, the yes man and the union-busting lawyer.)
President Richard M. Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents in an attempt to combat inflation - 1971
Gerry Horgan, chief steward of CWA Local 1103 and NYNEX striker in Valhalla, N.Y., is struck on the picket line by a car driven by the daughter of a plant manager and dies the following day. What was to become a 4-month strike over healthcare benefits was in its second week - 1989
Eight automotive department employees at a Walmart near Ottawa won an arbitrator-imposed contract after voting for UFCW representation, becoming the giant retailer's only location in North America with a collective bargaining agreement. Two months later the company closed the department. Three years earlier Walmart had closed an entire store on the same day the government announced an arbitrator would impose a contract agreement there - 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2014
‘This is what a media blackout looks like’
‘This is what a media blackout looks like’
Alexia Campbell and Reena Flores wrote Thursday about trying to cover Ferguson for National Journal with “How Police Are Keeping Journalists From Doing Their Jobs in Ferguson.” On Wednesday night, Flores and Campbell tried to get to protests but were threatened with arrest by police.
I had never witnessed police treat journalist like this in the four years I worked as a crime reporter in South Florida. Some officers have tried to keep me away from crime scenes, but never stopped me from covering a story altogether.
It was also the first time I had ever felt afraid of a police officer. Flores and I felt far more afraid of them than we did of any protesters.
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
Teamster Organizer Marty Keegan at the Los Angeles Times Production Facility
The Long Fall of Philly Newspapers - Philadelphia Magazine
Media absurdity! How bad is the state of journalism? - Twitchy
Can newspapers find a winning strategy? - Worcester Telegram
BuzzFeed now more valuable than Tribune Publishing - StlToday
One bird requires hyphen. Another reportedly crosses road - Poynter
The Tennessean's 'newsroom of the future' means cuts - Nashville Scene
Ferguson Cops Arrest Two Reporters Working at a McDonald’s - PJ Media
Trends in Newsrooms #8: The impact of digital mega-stories - Editors Weblog
Philadelphia Daily News changes its cover after it’s criticized on Twitter - Romenesko
Today in Labor History
August 14 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system of unemployment benefits - 1935
Members of the upstart Polish union Solidarity seize the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. Sixteen days later the government officially recognizes the union. Many consider the event the beginning of the end for the Iron Curtain - 1980
Former AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland dies at age 77 - 1999
Too many black men have been killed
By Haywood Galbreath
Too many black men have been killed!!!!
Yes I am on one! Too many black men have been and are being killed by white police officers white America for you to keep your mouth shut about it. Most especially since you try to convince everyone that you are so righteous!
This is what you need to understand and it really has nothing to do with what black people and other people of color might do to you!
Until white Americans in particular white men cry out against the unjust killing of people of color in particular black and brown men at the hands of white police officers not much will be done to stop the abomination against humanity. Unless white Americans in particular white men cry out for righteous change to come and those unjust acts to stop.
There is a clock ticking and an hourglass that continues to run that has more sand in the bottom than the top. That when the final tick has ticked off the clock and the final grain of sand has trickled from the top to the bottom there is going to be such a darkness fall upon white Americans in particular white men. That as I have said before even though the sun continues to shine as brightly everyday as it ever has.
There will be such a darkness and despair upon white Americans in particular white men that death will be a relief from the darkness and despair of living and suffering because of the sins against humanity and the way of the Great Spirit God of your people as a whole but in particular your father’s and yourselves!
The Haywood Galbreath Story
Too many black men have been killed!!!!
Yes I am on one! Too many black men have been and are being killed by white police officers white America for you to keep your mouth shut about it. Most especially since you try to convince everyone that you are so righteous!
This is what you need to understand and it really has nothing to do with what black people and other people of color might do to you!
Until white Americans in particular white men cry out against the unjust killing of people of color in particular black and brown men at the hands of white police officers not much will be done to stop the abomination against humanity. Unless white Americans in particular white men cry out for righteous change to come and those unjust acts to stop.
There is a clock ticking and an hourglass that continues to run that has more sand in the bottom than the top. That when the final tick has ticked off the clock and the final grain of sand has trickled from the top to the bottom there is going to be such a darkness fall upon white Americans in particular white men. That as I have said before even though the sun continues to shine as brightly everyday as it ever has.
There will be such a darkness and despair upon white Americans in particular white men that death will be a relief from the darkness and despair of living and suffering because of the sins against humanity and the way of the Great Spirit God of your people as a whole but in particular your father’s and yourselves!
The Haywood Galbreath Story
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Today in Labor History
August 13 - Union Communications Services, Inc.Striking miners at Tracy City, Tenn., capture their mines and free 300 state convict strikebreakers. The convicts had been "leased" to mineowners by officials in an effort to make prisons self-supporting and make a few bucks for the state. The practice started in 1866 and lasted for 30 years - 1892
Newspaper Guild members begin 3-month strike of Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, shutting the publication down in their successful fight for union recognition - 1936
Civil rights leader and union president A. Philip Randolph strongly protests the AFL-CIO Executive Council's failure to endorse the August 28 "March on Washington" - 1963
Five construction workers are killed, 16 injured when the uncompleted roof of the Rosemont (Ill.) Horizon arena collapses - 1979
(Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper. It takes the reader through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and describes numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates.)
(Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper. It takes the reader through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and describes numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates.)
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
August 21st Union Election ~ VOTE YES!
August 21st Union Election ~ VOTE YES!
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
You are once again being forced into an election that a majority of you don’t want to begin with. How do I know this, because the petitioner struggled to obtain the 30% of signatures necessary to be granted an election by the NLRB? How were those signatures obtained? Lies? YES, LIES! How many of you were told that management would change things for the better if the Union were voted out? How many of you were solicited during working hours, in the work areas? Or, were you one of the apprentices that were told how it would look good if management were to see your signature on his illegal petition?
You may have been one of the people that got tired of being relentlessly hounded for your signature that led you to realize that the only way for the badgering to stop was to sign, even though you have no intention of voting to give up anything management hasn’t already stolen from us! You should all know by now that the petitioner and management have conspired together from the very beginning, all the way back to our Organizing Campaign in 2006 and it continues to this day.
The petitioner and other company supporters have chosen to side with the company and do their dirty work from the inside because the company CANNOT file for elections to decertify your union representation, only employees can make such a request of the NLRB.
FOR THE RECORD: THE PETITIONER HAS FAILED IN HIS 4 ATTEMPTS, YES 4, FAILED ATTEMPTS TO HAVE YOU VOTE IN FAVOR OF A COMPANY THAT HAS DONE NOTHING BUT CRAP ON YOU AND DISRESPECT YOUR RIGHTS FOR YOUR DECISION TO LEGALLY FORM A UNION OVER 6 YEARS AGO!
Why anyone would sign these petitions after all that has transpired still leaves me bewildered! The petitioner and others have self-serving ulterior motives and they are continually rewarded for their loyalty. They also avoid the tyrannical treatment and scrutiny all of you face on a daily basis. Would they get fired for transposing plates like Brother Timothy Robinson did? If they were to become ill or injured, would they have a job after 6 months or drown in the so called “JOB POOL” like so many of our colleagues have since unionizing? If the Union were to be voted out, who do you think will be the first to benefit from such a disastrous decision? And more importantly, who would suffer?
Why do these Company Supporters do these things that work against everything positive we attempt to accomplish on behalf of the membership? We all know the answer, because they have no dignity, no shame and have absolutely no concern for any of you or your families. How many of you have seen the petitioner camped out in the front office with their anti-union leader? They won’t admit what they are talking about because it is illegal for management to be involved in the upcoming election, BUT THEY ARE! With all the time the petitioner spends in the front office, would you believe they aren’t involved?
Don’t allow these anti-union puppets to remove your voice from the bargaining table! Let’s show management that we are serious about the changes we are proposing in Collective Bargaining and strengthen your committee by overwhelming winning this upcoming election in landslide fashion!
In Solidarity!
Ronnie
joseph mailander: Austin Beutner toughs up
joseph mailander: Austin Beutner toughs up: Profile : Austin Beutner , a novice to politics but a veteran of many wars in private and public sectors alike, is tougher than you may ...
*Here's a piece I did four years ago for the Weekly on new Times publisher Austin Beutner's DWP when he was acting GM for it. - Joseph Mailander
*Here's a piece I did four years ago for the Weekly on new Times publisher Austin Beutner's DWP when he was acting GM for it. - Joseph Mailander
Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere
Los Angeles Times Pressman Cesar Calderon
Our Opinion: The future of news - Brattleboro Reformer
Times Reporter Is Injured in Iraq Helicopter Crash - NY Times
Tribune Media profit, sales rise amid acquisitions - Market Watch
Standalone Tribune Publishing reports an earnings slide - Capital NY
An alternate reality for America’s struggling newspapers exists - Quartz
Media spinoffs leave newspapers to twist in the wind - Al Jazeera America
"Media companies are rapidly parting with their print divisions." - Ad-Hoc-News
New LA Times publisher, CEO Austin Beutner says paper has to change - KPCC
Will newsprint-only companies really hasten the demise of newspapers? - Guardian
Today in Labor History
August 12 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The national Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners is founded in Chicago in a gathering of 36 carpenters from 11 cities - 1881
Coal company guards kill seven, wound 40 striking miners who are trying to stop scabs, Virden, Ill. - 1898
With the news that their boss, Florenz Ziegfeld, was joining the Producing Managers’ Association, the chorus girls in his Ziegfield Follies create their own union, the Chorus Equity Association. They were helped by a big donation from superstar and former chorus girl Lillian Russell. In 1955 the union merged with the Actor’s Equity Association - 1919
Teamsters official William Grami is kidnapped, bound and beaten near Sebastopol, Calif. He was leading a drive to organize apple plant workers in the area - 1955
(From Blackjacks to Briefcases is the first book to document the systematic and extensive use by American corporations of professional unionbusters, an ugly profession that surfaced after the Civil War and has grown bolder and more sophisticated with the passage of time. Since the 1980s, hundreds of firms—including the Detroit News, Caterpillar and Pittston Coal, to name but three—have paid out millions of dollars to hired thugs. Some have been in uniforms and carried nightsticks and guns, others have worn three-piece suits and carried attaché cases, but all had one simple mission: to break the backs of workers struggling for decency and fair treatment on the job.)
(From Blackjacks to Briefcases is the first book to document the systematic and extensive use by American corporations of professional unionbusters, an ugly profession that surfaced after the Civil War and has grown bolder and more sophisticated with the passage of time. Since the 1980s, hundreds of firms—including the Detroit News, Caterpillar and Pittston Coal, to name but three—have paid out millions of dollars to hired thugs. Some have been in uniforms and carried nightsticks and guns, others have worn three-piece suits and carried attaché cases, but all had one simple mission: to break the backs of workers struggling for decency and fair treatment on the job.)
The North American Free Trade Agreement—NAFTA—is concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico, to take effect in January, 1994, despite protests from labor, environmental and human rights groups – 1992
What was to become a 232-day strike by major league baseball players over owners' demands for team salary caps began on this day; 938 games were cancelled - 1994
Monday, August 11, 2014
Monday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
Last night's Supermoon
Oh, yeah. Los Angeles Times has a new publisher
This Forbes analyst says Trib Pub undervalued - Forbes
The great newspaper spinoff - Columbia Journalism Review
Dramatic Gannett restructure makes good business sense - Editors Weblog
Austin Beutner named publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times - LA Times
Austin Beutner goes from potential buyer to publisher of LA Times - LAObserved
Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures - New York Times
The growing pay gap between journalism and public relations - Pew Research Center
The excommunication of newspapers and magazines from media companies - Jeff Jarvis
Toledo Blade hates you Ted Nugent tells crowd at Blade-sponsored concert - Romenesko
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