Petition: http://bit.ly/2ljZr7b

Our brothers and sisters with UAW Local 291 in Oshkosh have gone on strike for a fair and equitable contract at AxleTech. The dedicated members of UAW Local 291 are taking a stand for the middle class and fighting to preserve good, family-supporting jobs in Oshkosh. Petition: http://bit.ly/2ljZr7b

http://nativenewsonline.net/

By Levi Rickert, Native News Online

07 February 17

With the impending spring thaw, several efforts are underway to cleanup and ultimately clear the encampments where thousands of water protectors have camped to show solidarity and resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline. The encampments are in a flood plain and will be under water when the thaw happens.

During times of change, rumors become rampant. Rumors often sow discord among those who have good intentions.

Yesterday, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe released the following message to help keep calm among all concerned:

Water Protectors & Allies,

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and our movement as a whole are in a phase of transition and growth. The encampments brought global attention to our struggle, and now we face the task of carrying that momentum forward as we work to defeat this pipeline and other projects that deny the rights of indigenous people.

We cannot let media and social media divide us. We have always been transparent in our messages and actions; it is unfortunate when certain media take messages out of context. We must remain focused on our goals. The movement is bigger than just the tribe. It is bigger than the Chairman, or any individual. We should all be working together to protect the tenets of the movement.

One of the key tenets of any movement is being considerate about how we treat the community in which we bring our voices and respect the places where we are visitors. The community of Cannonball has every right to choose how it wants people to help them. We are still focused on defeating DAPL on all fronts.

We want to stress that we are cleaning the camps, not clearing them. We do not support or endorse any “raids.” We have not asked for law enforcement to assist in clearing camps and in fact have repeatedly told them there will be no forcible removal.

We have never stopped fighting the pipeline. There have never been any negotiations. Rumors and conspiracy theories abound in any movement as powerful as this; we cannot let media and other governments manipulate our statements and actions into a narrative counter to the truth. We cannot fall into the traps of divide and conquer—that is how we lost so much before, and Standing Rock will not let that happen again. Together we rise.

We ask our allies to be grounded in prayer in all that you do. We will prevail.

http://bit.ly/2jYOhzJ

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

By Abayomi Azikiwe

Since the Great Recession of 2007-2010, cited as the worst capitalist economic downturn since the Depression in the 1930s, the United States financial system has been “stabilized” by the massive intervention of the Government and the Federal Reserve Bank. Estimates of at least $10 trillion in bailouts to the leading banks since 2008 have ensured the maintenance of the world capitalist system.

In addition to the massive subsidies to the banks, two of the leading U.S. automotive firms, Chrysler and General Motors, were also given hundreds of millions of dollars from the tax revenues of working people to guarantee their existence despite decades of large-scale downsizing and restructuring extending back to the 1970s.

When former President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he was given a mandate along with the majority Democratic House of Representatives and Senate, to institute sweeping reforms of the financial system; create substantive employment and business opportunities for the African American community and workers in general; as well as ending the imperialist wars raging in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. Nonetheless, after two consecutive terms, U.S. militarism was expanded into broader areas of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific.

Although it is reported at the beginning of every month that the unemployment rate is hovering around 5 percent, the labor participation rate, which is a more accurate measure of gauging the actual strength of the economy in relationship to the situation of working people, remains at approximately 62 percent, leaving over one-third of the eligible labor force outside the formal market. Millions of people in the U.S. have fallen deeper into poverty and deprivation over the last decade through monumental and unprecedented home foreclosures and evictions, job losses, utility shut-offs and mass incarceration…

With a burgeoning movement in opposition to the Trump administration it must be clear to all of those involved that there can be no trade-off between prosperity in the U.S. and aggressive military campaigns in other parts of the world. The demands which will inevitably triumph are those calling for peace and justice in the U.S. in conjunction with an end to imperialism worldwide. http://bit.ly/2jYOhzJ

Madison, WI

http://www.hondurassolidarity.org/

OUR MISSION IN SOLIDARITY WITH HONDURAS

• To oppose and denounce at the local, regional, and national level the interventionist policy of the U.S. government in Honduras
• To denounce violations of human rights in Honduras, the United States, and Canada, and demand their investigation so that intellectual authors and material perpetrators of these crimes are punished.
  
• To accompany the people of Honduras in their journey to ‘re-found’ their country
• To act with commitment to social justice in Honduras

Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras.

 http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/

UAW Local 291, 1118 High Ave, Oshkosh, WI 54901

320 workers – members of UAW Local 9 – at Honeywell Aerospace factory in South Bend, Indiana and 42 UAW Local 1508 members at their sister plant in Green Island, NY have been locked out since May 9, 2016 over a contract dispute.

Honeywell workers have twice voted NO! to a contract that would eliminate cost-of-living increases and pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract out union work, restrict representation rights and gut seniority rights. The company wants the license to unilaterally change health coverage, premiums and deductibles.

UAW Local 9 was forged during a 6-day sit-down occupation of the then-Bendix Corporation 80 years ago. February 11th is the 80th anniversary of the victorious 44-day Flint, Michigan Sit down strike. We will commemorate these two historic struggles that won the UAW exclusive bargaining rights for industrial workers. We aim to defend what these brave workers, their families and their communities won for us, and apply their lessons to the fight with Honeywell today.

PLEASE NOTE: The location of the “Return to Our Roots” Solidarity Rally has changed. The event is now being hosted by UAW Local 5, 1426 South Main St,  South Bend, IN 46613