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‘Escalate Action’: Big Labor Co-Opts MLK Jr’s Legacy, Rallies for Collective Bargaining at 100+ ‘We Are One’ Protests

Across the country today, labor organizers and activists are holding hundreds of “We Are One” rallies and ‘teach-ins’ to defend the collective bargaining rights of union members. “I stand in solidarity with teachers, firefighters, nurses and all under attack by governors and state legislatures,” is the rallying tweet of the AFL-CIO, an organization heavily involved with the We Are One rallies.

Escalate Action: Big Labor Co Opts MLK Jrs Legacy, Rallies for Collective Bargaining at 100+ We Are One Protests

According to the We Are One website, the activists chose today (April 4th) for their rallies because that is the day, over fifty years ago, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life. The workers were trying to form a union with AFSCME.

Are the unions co-opting MLK Jr’s legacy?

Absolutely says one black reverend. “I believe that Dr. King is turning over in his grave today,” says one reverend who says that he was born on an Alabama plantation. Speaking on the Neil Cavuto show, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson observes, “I participated in the civil rights movement, I did sit-ins…for Jesse Jackson and others to take [MLK Jr's] movement, to take his purpose and use it for personal gain, I have to say Neil, is nothing less than evil. Dr. King would not agree with this.”

Nonetheless, We Are One activists are rallying today in the name of Dr. King:

Join us in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights Dr. King gave his life for: the freedom to bargain, to vote, to afford a college education and justice for all workers, immigrant and native-born. It’s a day to show movement. Teach-ins. Vigils. Faith events. A day to be creative, but clear: We are one.

The We Are One materials, as evidenced by the last paragraph above, contain a palpable animus towards all-things Republican.

Escalate Action: Big Labor Co Opts MLK Jrs Legacy, Rallies for Collective Bargaining at 100+ We Are One Protests

In the “Toolkit for Campus Teach-Ins,“ the introductory remarks includes the statement ”These Republicans are attacking all of us”:
The attacks on workers’ rights in Wisconsin and across the country and the tremendous uprising of grassroots activism in response provide us with the best opportunity in decades to seize the momentum and the national debate. Turning the challenge of the Republican, right-wing and corporate attacks into opportunities for movement building will take education, coalition building and action.
While this “Wisconsin Moment” started with politicians’ attacks on public workers and their ability to collectively bargain, it should be no surprise that the same politicians (backed by CEOs and corporations that funded their election campaigns) are attacking decent wages,unions and programs that help working families in every form. They are coming after Project Labor Agreements, prevailing wages and infrastructure funding while backing destructive measures like so-called “right to work” and paycheck deception. And many of them are the same people who are attacking voting rights for students, working to make higher education less affordable by raising tuition and cutting financial aid and opposing the simple fairness of the DREAM Act.
The NAACP said of the We Are One rallies: “Like the meanspirited leaders in Memphis in 1968, too many of our elected officials today are trying to divide workers in the private sector from our public servant workers like teachers, police officers and health care workers. We can’t let them get away with it.”
Escalate Action: Big Labor Co Opts MLK Jrs Legacy, Rallies for Collective Bargaining at 100+ We Are One Protests

As mentioned, part of the We Are One protests involves a “teach-in” component at university and college campuses nationwide. These teach-ins, I think, are supposed to elicit memories of the late 1950s-early 1960s “sit ins.” The union members, I suppose, feel that the right to collective bargaining is analagous to the basic civil rights that black Americans were brutally denied in an earlier period of our country’s history. Whether that analogy holds any water or not–I don’t think it does–is a topic for another day. For now, what’s interesting to note is the warlike language the teach-in organizers are using:

Wall Street Banks, American corporations and their political allies have declared a one-sided war on the American people. This war is being waged at our schools and colleges, on public employee unions, in our workplaces and in our communities.

The teach-ins are “a call to learn, a call to escalate action,” the website notes. The toolkit suggests various topics for discussion at the teach-ins:
  • Workers’ Rights as Human Rights: The State of Our Freedom to Join Unions and Bargain Collective
  • The Republican Attack on Workers’ Rights and Collective Bargainin
  • The Real Roots of the Great Recession and State Fiscal Problem [editor's note: corporate greed alert!!!]
  • Political Action: How Students, Teachers and Other Workers are Fighting Back
The toolkit also suggests some talking points:

This is not about the budget—it is more of the same old politics.

This is political payback to corporate CEOs who spent more than $1 billion to elect politicians last fall. While we suffer, the same politicians support tax breaks for corporations and ceos.

These same politicians are attacking voting rights for students, working to make higher education less affordable by raising tuition and cutting financial aid and opposing the simple fairness of the DREAM Act.

We need to focus on creating jobs and restoring the middle class. Our firefighters, teachers, college faculty and nurses are critical members of our community. Corporations are trying to weaken or eliminate workers’ freedom to join unions and bargain so workers can’t serve as a check on corporate greed to restore balance

A national “teach in” will be held–and live-streamed–tomorrow in New York City, featuring Cornel West and Frances Fox Piven. They will be discussing austerity, debt, and corporate greed–and what you can do about it! Get excited.

Glenn Beck will be covering the rallies on his show this evening.

Comments (212)

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:57pm

    Lay them all off Walker….let the unions pay for their benefits and start over.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:54pm

    “We are one.” my backside!

    If we were “one” – we’d all be communists.

    If we were “one” – you wouldn’t be bankrupting part of us and the state with unsustainable benefits and salaries.

    This person of “one” can’t afford you and yours and detests the fact you use your dues to elect/hire your own officials. This person of “one” doesn‘t think that’s Democracy. That‘s just having a bigger paid mouth that doesn’t care if it bankrupts people and the state.

    Whoever told you you could have it all …….lied to you just to get your bucks. Think California and Illinois.

    You’re not working in sweatshops anymore – get over yourselves. The world isn’t just about “you”.

    And as to the so-called boycotting – a lot of us consider that old time Chicago Mob bullying and “insurance”. It makes a lot of us turn more against you ever single day. Stop picking on the little guys/gals you darned, greedy, bullies. Any respect I had for you is now totally gone.

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:50pm

    Sure are lots of overweight people in the crowd. Get Mochella and the food police out there!

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  • JBT48
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:45pm

    Elitist arrogant union workers wanting MORE from those who pay the bills. Absolutely cannot believe they would want to be seen in public holding their whining signs..

    We need a Reagan sort of ideal from leading politicians who were not purchased by SEIU.

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  • caprica
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:34pm

    communsim, socilism, sharija law -= slavery ! killing ! behading, you will never make it to 60….
    hunger, poverty, slavery ! you be on a social bus and riding bycicle ….with a hot dog in your hand …..and communsit newspaper to wipe your ass! no toilet paper for slaves only for communsit party members !

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:15pm

      I guss they figure it will work wonders to ease the social security boondoggle.

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  • caprica
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:31pm

    go to work people……what the hell are they doing …..they never work….freeloaders…..and useful idiots…..once they find themselfs in a poverty and slavery by obmaa and people like him….it is call communism !

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  • lizaz
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:31pm

    Public sector employees should NOT be unionized1 They work for the taxpayer and are paid by the taxpayer and SERVE the taxpayer!! If they want to unionize and try to rape companies (which they have ruined many of them) for obscene pay and pension benefits, fine, private companies can either put up with them or go out of business. But public employees have a duty to the taxpayer, like it or not, and they should never have the option to strike…police and fire people????…it just doesn’t make sense. Hopefully this will all end up destroying public sector unions and we are all for it!!!!

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  • Whostolemypig
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:30pm

    Funny how 9 of the top 10 states with the highest percentage of segregated cities are also the same states that have higher numbers of union members. Are all union members bigots or are all bigots union members?

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  • wwjcdo
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:27pm

    oh goodie, more whiners…wheres the zombie kids, maybe they can eat pigs feet ?

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:26pm

    Good think MLK can’t see people using his legacy as a club to beat each other up with. He’d be so ashamed.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:24pm

    We are all witness to the product of Union corruption, look no farther then Obama and the Billion dollars that our tax money is going to be spent on his corrupt reelection campaign.

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  • Tacit Eagle
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:21pm

    Note to the protestors:

    This is not a war against workers. It is a war against thug unions and their outrageously costly demands.

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  • Patriotsof1776
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:20pm

    I am proud to be ex-union. These people are nothing but useful idiots for the mob run unions.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:10pm

      You love a good teabagging dont you encino man? Like the heat on your eyes do you?

      Your name calling lets us know how weak you are. ********* doesnt bother anyone. It just lets everyone know which team you bat for. switch hitter? ball boy? pitcher or catcher?

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:13pm

      You are gonna come unhinged when Palin or Bachmann, our beautiful brilliant conservative women, sit in the white house. Hopefully your parents wil kick you out because of your rage and you will learn what its like to be an adult.

      Of course, we will have to pick up the tab for your food stamps and welfare. There is always the public restrooms.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:58pm

      Encinom:
      Do you realize that of the biggest corporations, the largest multinationals, BP, Goldman Sacs, BOA, and thousands of other MEGA rich are Yours? Liberal, Scocialist globalists, CFR members like Gorgy Schwartz, GE, the list goes on and on. So either you think your a “ important player” amongst those sharks or your just second tier fodder for them. Even if your a “Media matters” flapper, your still just cannon fodder to Gyorgy, a well paid second tier throw away, useful idiot. Do you study history at all, answer me this one question if you dare. Of Stalins and Maos purges, which demographic group shares the unflattering distinction as the “ greatest group massacres in history” was it A.) the people who initially didn’t go along with the revolutions, or B.) the “tools” used to carry out the revolution?

      Answer B.) is correct, over 3 billion killed between these two fine upstanding murders. Kinda let‘s you know where you fit in now doesn’t it. Oh, and many of those 3 billion thought they could/ would turn the tables too, good luck with that.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:00pm

      @encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:33pm

      A tea-****** and a useful idiot for the upper 1%, are you holding the door open for the corporate theives as they steal your state’s treasury? Are you lulled to sleep by 1/2 Term Palin and Loony Bachmann while Tyrannts like Walker assault the rigths of true Americna patriots.

      _______________

      Know what’s most comical about YOU, and libs in general?

      You using the term ‘tea ******’, which is a gay term for a particular act.

      Funny of you: you liberals are all for gays, yet you use a term gays use, in a derogatory manner.

      YOUR use of the term tells me YOU are homophobic.

      ~LMAO at YOU~

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:19pm

    I do not want communism in this country, it is not what our country is about, these worthless fools want communism go to China or Russia and be happy.

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:17pm

    These stupid union protests are sooooooooooooooo yesterday – - What a bunch of lazy dogs.

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  • foobear
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:14pm

    Is it corrupting is legacy?

    Martin Luther King, Jr., SCLC Presidential Address, 1967:
    “What I’m saying to you this morning is that communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.”

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  • Roy-Al_K
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:13pm

    If the Unionists want Public Employees to have free healthcare and above average pensions, let them fund them instead of pumping 100′s of millions into DNC coffers to bribe them into taking it out of my paycheck! Solidarity, brothers. Unions helping unions. No. Now we got Unions helping politicians rob us blind!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:05pm

    “We are one”,Its about freedom”. These progressive,socialist unions like the democrates always have slogans, and phrases to get those on the fence to see it there way. Who can forget the democrates and their “Family values’. This time its different, you’ve all shown yourselves to be a bunch of phony hypycrites. Our president has reneged on gitmo’s closing, and how they are going to prosecute the detainees. Also, he has his own war giong on in libya. Where are the code pink demonstations in front of the recruting stations like it was during the bush presidency? You are using Dr.Marin Luther King Jr’s anniversary of his killing for your own selfish motivations.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:03pm

    The story worries that unions are co-opting MLK day.What a joke? MLK co-opted the Viet Nam war didn’t he? In two words….’who cares?’ The civil rights movement and this union movement are both crooked two-bit money grubbing whores. They are selfish and probably illegal in some respects.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:00pm

      That is a valid point! Who cares?

      The free market is about to sort these fools out.

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  • justice
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:02pm

    Goes to show ole Al and Jesse are right in with the left and Unions. They of all people should know what he died for. Where are their protest. Only when it goes to their cause.

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:54pm

    As an x- union member I can sympathize with why these folk don’t understand what is going on. They work hard, most do, for a fair wage, a wage that far exceeds what is paid their nonunion counterparts. They fear losing the ability to earn that wage, as well as the meger contributions to their retirements that they have made. I understand, but I also know proper education into the facts about what is being reconsidered about PUBLIC sector unions needs be understood by these men and women. Sadly that proper vision, that information will NEVER come from their unions, nor even more egregiously from a media seeming he// bent on being culpable in the destruction of America.

    Like sheep led to their slaughter, these well intended, but mal informed union members rally to the demise of America, and their own jobs. Short sighted, again I say no, deliberately misinformed and to their own future consternation.

    But we here at the blaze are miss focused as well if we don’t question everything. If we choose a narrow focus instead of believing anything is possible as to the drivers of the evil agenda we see playing out before our eyes. We KNOW that the Islamists are using the unions, and shall endeavor to consume them once the overthrow of America and Isreal is complete. We know that the socialist’s are using both the unions and the Islamists and plan the demise of the same, after America and Isreal……..But whom is pulling the puppets strings, it must be someone or some group with greater wealth and power than all of the groups it is controlling, combined. It must remain hidden, by subterfuge subverting, infiltrating, manipulating and denying involvement.
    What drives the motives and hearts of mankind? Greed, lust, envy, strife, jealousy, lies, theft, murder…………..all sins of power and control…of appetite.
    Sometimes I sigh a deep sigh”……………………….we are so blind.

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:55pm

      @BETTERDAYS, I totally agree with your comments. Trouble is, I think that these idiots will end up winning in the end, and it will be to their own detriment. They (public employee unions) forget who pays their wages. Folks out here are hurting. Gas went up another 10 cents a gallon, of course none of us got a raise to accomodate it. A block of Velveeta cheese has gone up $1 since Christmas time…and everything else also..that is just something that I saw this weekend. I think that these people will not be happy until NO ONE has a job, and no one can afford to eat, and even if you have a JOB, you won’t be able to afford the gas to get there. Private company unions are one thing…Public unions are a whole nuther animal.

      My husband is a Union member. He works for a private company and is a member of Steelworkers. Crappy Union so far as we are concerned, but that’s beside the point. He’s worked all kinds of crazy shifts and had many changes over the 30 plus years for the company, but when they go to work, if a 10 hour shift, or a 12 hour shift, they have certain jobs to do. When they are done, if it takes all day, it takes all day, and if it doesn’t, they spend the rest of the time reading a book, or the paper or playing dominos. I am sure you get the picture? I told my husband that I KNEW he didn’t work much when he tells me how many books he read this week…As a State employee, summers we worked hard for State Parks. More to do than time to do it, but in the winter, after camping season, not much. I have gone to work for 8 hours, worked 10 minutes, and spent the rest of the day playing Trivial Pursuit and jacks and balls sitting in the middle of the office floor with my co-worker. Of course our State does not have UNIONS either. Sure, some of these people work, but let me tell you, those of us working in “small business” humping it each day to get the jobs out in order to please our customers, we sure don’t have slack time. We keep our jobs because we are good at them, because we work hard for what we get, and our employers would not even THINK of getting rid of us…it would be a great loss to them. The Union stuff just ticks me off. I’m not stupid..I’ve seen it and lived it, and folks we can’t afford it anymore. Keep it up and NO one will have a job, we’ll all be on the government dole, and who’s gonna pay the taxes to keep us?

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    • vennoye
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:56pm

      I understand your view, and I agree with you…to a point. Those union members are no more asleep than all of us were three years ago. Barack Obama’s run was like a big red “CAPE” to me, much more than a red flag! Too little experience, too little background information, too much money, too little in common with my values. We all have really worked to educate ourselves and get involved to try to get our country back on the right track. Knowledge didn’t just fall into our lap–you can’t zone out every night in front on the TV set watching sports or sitcoms.
      These union members must realize all the money the union bosses are spending on all these rallies, protests, political bribes….they must know that their pensions are only 50-60% funded and none of this money is going into their pensions. But, bottom line, as you said yourself, “They work hard, most do, for a fair wage, a wage that far exceeds what is paid their nonunion counterparts”. We are taught to love our neighbors as ourselves…so greed for themselves has become more important than thinking about possible hardships their neighbors are going through for them to receive that wage!

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    • sWampy
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:12pm

      Saying most do a good job is horse crap. If they truly excel at their craft and have any drive what-so-ever, they get promoted and with in just a few years have a management position that isn’t union. The life time union members are just unmotivated drones, happy to make more than they deserve and scared they will actually have to compete equally for a job.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:44pm

      Thanks for your replies everybody, I had to reassess some of the things I wrote and I do recall that working as an Iron worker that once the “ quota” or “ job list” was completed, we played quarter bounce ( always good for an extra fifty a week, thanks for the memories Kenny). So I guess we did not work that hard. Didn’t save my job though, the second NAFTA came about all those union jobs went to Mexico. My union, didn’t put up a single bit of a fight either, just wanted our “dues”.
      I do recall that their were some who worked more than they were required too, they never moved up, sorry swampy I have to disagree with you on that.
      In general I have found that employers representatives ( stewards, managers….) seem intimidated by someone who is capable of multitasking, and is a strong communicator.But that’s another subject for another day.
      I also still stand by my assumption of ignorance on the part of many union members, denial is only discovered when it’s lost. Did we become suddenly informed by the lame stream media? No way, it was sensing something was wrong and striking out on our own to seek answers, which lead us to Glenn, Fox, and the constant use of a wide range of resource mterials by which we got educated and continue to educate ourselves, our families and neighbors. Having been in the union comfort zone, I speak from experience, the common worker does not seek out answers.

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  • wayned315
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:52pm

    Why do they continue to call collective bargaining a “right?” I’m really rather tired of these lazy manipulative people thinking they control the debate. They need to be challenged on every statement and every word they utter. It’s time we got back to rewarding hardwork and not some overinflated union egos.

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Cause it is a har fought right, many have died to ensure that others can approach the baragining table at a near equal footing with management. Unions are not against hard work, the towers of capitalism in NYC were bulit by union members, unions are against slave wages and unfair practices. The Governor of Maine is looking to bring back child labor (a practice unions fought).

      The traitors of the tea-party are nothing more than barking dogs for their masters. The US economy is akin to 12 cookies with the upper 1% taking 11 cookies for themselves and telling the useful idiots of the tea-party that the union members want to steal the last remaining cookie.

       
    • eventual
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:46pm

      “Cause it is a har fought right, many have died to ensure that others can approach the baragining table at a near equal footing with management. ”

      Equal footing with “management?”

      We’re talking about public unions, you moron. There is no greedy capitalist on the other side of the table. More often than not, it’s a good buddy the union just helped get elected.

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    • eventual
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:51pm

      I’m probably wasting my time arguing with you, as I am half convinced you’re a fellow conservative pretending to be a liberal in order to make them look like idiots.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Hes an idiot.

      Slave wages? Union carpenters working on the Orlando arena made 32.50 an hour with absolutely no experience.

      Oh encinom, mommas calling you. she got PB&J for you and your buddies for your HALO tourney.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:58pm

      Slave wages? You mean $0.00/hr?

      How many slaves are in America today encinom?

      How about 50yrs ago? 100 years ago?

      encinom would you say slavery is on the rise or decline in America?

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:01pm

      encinom is a Socialist.

      The other side of the bargaining table is US, the taxpayers. encinom hates his country and himself. Through collective punishment he achieves collectivist salvation.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:04pm

      I dont eat cookies. I just go to my job, perfom at my peak, provide a service that I am paid well for, and I go home to my house.

      Now if you eat all your mom’s fresh baked cookies and wash it down with a glass of 2% milk, that makes you the union guy. You are probably overflowing from your skinny jeans like a busted can of biscuits.

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  • justme72
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:38pm

    Reverend Martin Luther King was a conservative christian. He was against socialism. He saw a wrong that needed to be righted and fought for a good cause.

    This union thing is just silly, the government can not continue printing imaginary money, thats the same as stealing

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:27pm

      King fought for the rights of workers and unions, he died prior to attending a labor rally.

      Beck can lie and claim King’s mantel, but King‘s spirit was with the people of Ohio and Wisoncsin as they protested against the Tyrannts in the Governor’s mansions.

       
    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:54pm

      Please explain the tyranny of those recently elected Governors who CAMPAIGNED on cutting back public employee unions.

      Explain it encinom.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:56pm

      He cant hes a joke.

      He is one of many people who suffer from wealth and penis envy.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:09pm

      @encinom

      Amazing that someone like you can dare claim to speak for someone else. Heck–you can’t even speak for yourself! All you do is parrot liberal talking points. After reading you for so long, it’s safe to conclude that an original thought in your head would blow your piddling little mind.

      Then again, a slight breeze in your ear would do the same thing to you.

      ~LMAO at YOU~

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    • avenger
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:17pm

      yikes….dude..pay attention !

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    • godfather
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:27am

      @JUSTME72

      Clearly you don‘t know much about MLK and didn’t even care to make a cursory investigation into his campaigns. He advocated for an economic bill of rights that guaranteed full employment, guaranteed annual pay, and low income housing. And guess where he wanted this to come from. that’s right, the federal government. This campaign was focused on, uh-oh, economic justice, which for you and Beck followers is code word for evil.

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    • r304indy
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:25am

      I do not think the unions are Co-opting off of Dr. King any mopre that Becks non sense ralkly in Washington ,Dc. or the Koch’s explortation of the working man and woman. it amazes me how the rich can keep the working class fighting each other while they fill their coffers. it’s like the cat turning on other cats to protect the rats. How many union workers does it take to put fox on the air? Or are they a non union shop. I do not think so. I also think that Rev. Peterson was not born but raised part of his life by the grandparents that lived on the plantation they were born on. (?) I do know that he is a talking head for black republicans and as such toes thew party line. I have no problem with that, this is after the greatest nation in the world. Dr. Kings family and every american living at the time of his death knew why he was there and knew he was in support of the workers. (union) So how did that history chane right befor our eyes on the FNC? Next Bobby kenedy did not speak in Indianapolis and I did not shake his hand as he rode down Harding Street.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:36pm

    not all private trades union members are WITH these anti-American greedy union monsters. we know quite a few.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:46pm

      @burnthills,where are they???? i know they need their jobs,but setting back and letting your country crumble is not going to solve anything we need them to run these commie union bosses off, they need to stand up and demand that the unions stop standing with these communist clubs, when all hell breaks lose , then we are all in trouble and then what will they do are say???? i know WHAT HAPPENED please you must wake them all up.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:46pm

      Theyre nowhere. There are none. It is all based on self preservation. American Patriot union members will concede when threatened with loss of all their “goodies.” Believe me, I go round and round with my Dad, who is a union member.

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    • avenger
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:09pm

      did you people miss my comments earlier…King was a commie stooge.google it !

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  • Venom
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:35pm

    How bout a counter-protest?

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:37pm

      no, let’s just hope some sleeper cell anti-American terrorist didn‘t get the imam obama’s message to leave these anti-American monster thugs alone.

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    • Revere1
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:38pm

      Big labor doesn‘t really care about Martin Luther King’s legacy, they just think all of their opponents are evil and racist: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/04/what-liberals-really-think-about-tea.html Big Labor cares about Big Labor. They can‘t engage in any meaningful discussion because they don’t think their opponents deserve to be heard.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:41pm

      We need to stand up to these unions. How could anybody on the left support them when they are lining up with sicialist and communist groups? Check out this video on how they are targeting the kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dNIXND6T5E We need to fight back.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Do these people ever go to work ?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:47pm

      It seems today the protests are union centered instead of hippie oriented, then again I have to keep in mind the leaders of todays unions – those seeking to destroy the nation – are former hippies who have attempted this before.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:49pm

      And many of them are the same people who are attacking voting rights for students, working to make higher education less affordable by raising tuition and cutting financial aid and opposing the simple fairness of the DREAM Act.
      ——————-
      So which will come first
      Amnesty
      or
      illegals voting in 2012 for Obama ?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:58pm

      This is political payback to corporate CEOs who spent more than $1 billion to elect politicians last fall.
      ——————
      So how will Obama payback those who will spend more than $ 1 Billion to re- elect him ??

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:00pm

      While we suffer, the same politicians support tax breaks for corporations and ceos.
      ————–
      You mean like Obama himself who extended Bush’s tax-rates ?

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    • mcfinch
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:17pm

      Not this again… More revolution bologna.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:19pm

      If MLK Jr. was alive today he would be leading the protests against the Tea-Party backed GOP’s assault on the American worker.

      Martin Luther King, Jr.:
      In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as ‘right-to-work.‘ It provides no ’rights‘ and no ’works.’ Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining… We demand this fraud be stopped. —Speaking on right-to-work laws in 1961

      “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society.” Martin Luther King Jr.
      —Speech to the state convention of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Oct. 7, 1965

       
    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:30pm

      Poor Dr. MLK. HIS DREAM IS BEING HIJACKED BY THE UNIONS!

      If he knew these losers were exploiting his name he probably would rise from his grave and pimp slap all of these people.

      Hey lefties- stop hijacking the dream! And remember this time around in 2012- “judge a man by the content of his character, and not by the color of his skin.” (Thats Dr.Martin Luther King- in case you didnt know that.) Just a friendly reminder.

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:35pm

      @SLAPTHELEFT

      MLK’s dream was hyjacked by a loud mouth Mormon drunk and his merry band of tea-baggers.

       
    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:41pm

      @ CHEEZWHIZ

      Are you kidding? Do they ever work? Theyre union. all they do is protest. These people are the looters of society. Plunderers. Piartes without ships. If they had to work they would quit their unions. These people are mostly the drains and dregs of society. And I really dont care who is offended so save your energy. If it offends you then you are the scumbag I’m talking about.

      HEY UNION SLUGS- GET AN EFFIN JOB AND STOP CRYING ABOUT NOT BEING PAID ENOUGH TO CARRY YOUR ASTROTURF SIGNS. NOBODY CARES ANYMORE. YOURE JUST A BUNCH OF SLUGS. HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES!

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:43pm

      @ENCINOM

      Again you seem like a nice lady, but Im not union and I seem to do just fine. Whats your excuse? I dont need someone to bargain for me, I represent myself. Now thats American! Stand on your own two feet. Dont be a looter. Be a man- sorry Lady.

      Youre still a scumbag.

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    • avenger
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:46pm

      Do the idiots in the union movement know the story of Martin Luther King ? King was corrupt,a womanizer that liked young girls and was financed by the communist party.The powers to be at the time decided he was a liability to the civil rights agenda and took him out.Better a dead martyr/hero than a convict.The Federal Bureau of Investigation was forced by the justice department to seal his files for 50 years.Yes ,people you can read the whole sick story in 2027. So you union chiefs are you also financed by the commies,who are you going to sacrifice for your agenda.You know the feds are also watching you.You can dodge it till 1/20/12, then the conservatives take over and it will be payback time….

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Reverend King would turn over in his grave to see how these people have co-opted his memory. The legacy of MLK was equality and opportunity for all. As a white southerner, it pains me to see these people use his memory to promote their socialistic agenda!

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:03pm

      Where do the idiots think this money comes from? Lets give each protester an official “Obama money tree” seed with instructions to plant and WAIT. Also should give each a small bag of fairy dust and direct line to the took fairy.

      The Governors should just shut down the states for a few months at a time and give out unemployment. Maybe that would be a hint that the states are broke.

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:13pm

      Losers!!

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:31pm

      Has Al Sharpton heard about this?

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Looks like in one picture their hiring prostitutes and their pimp now

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    • Young Entrepreneur
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:51pm

      It has become clear today that if we are to save the Republic from threats both foreign and domestic the people need to speak up and stand their ground. So this is my stand! We can all agree that Mr. Spooky dude is one of the biggest if not the biggest threat to America! I say this with this with both confidence and firmness… If the tax exempt form “501 c3” is removed from George Soros, the flow of money will be disrupted almost immediately once the form has been taken away. All of the evil organizations usually have two elements in common 1. George Soros and 2. The 501 c3 tax exemption form. As long as this form is allowed to exist they can keep on shuffling people around when they’re “humanitarian aid cover” is blown without monetary loss. This form “501 c3” also aids in us funding our own demise! Our enemies are being funded with OUR tax payer money. It is covenant that the form “501 c3” also allows religious organizations operate without having to pay taxes. It is nothing more than a dead baby rootean to make sure that no one would ever challenge the forms purpose! When we pull this root out it will hurt a lot people and organizations but I fear not doing so we are almost fighting a loosing battle against our enemies. Remember, we can always make a new bill designed especially for religious tax exemption purposes. Either way the form “501 c3” MUST go! When trouble shooting any problem it is always necessary to find a common denominator, in this case it is the “501 c3” tax exemption and George Soros. See for yourself by following the link provided below to make the obvious connections.
      Discover The Net Works.org

      http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181

      Here you will find a complete list of all the organizations George Soros’ Open Society has monetary connections to and more.

      Simply click on the organization’s name or type the organization’s name into a search engine of your choice then once on a website look for the “DONATE NOW” button to see if the organization is indeed a “501 c3” form. By American law any organization using the “501 c3” form has to disclose that they are using it.

      The time to act is NOW please look it up for your selves until you believe what is true and contact your congressmen to act on repealing the “501 c3” form NOW before the enemy has time to stop it!

      This could be our chance to kick Mr. Spooky dude in the nuts!

      Also, I use the website “Muckety” to make sound connections between my suspicions.
      http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:10pm

      @encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:35pm

      @SLAPTHELEFT

      MLK’s dream was hyjacked by a loud mouth Mormon drunk and his merry band of tea-baggers.

      __________

      If anyone hijacked (the proper spelling of the word, which you can’t seem to manage) MLK, it’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

      You know–liberals.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:39pm

      @encinom
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:35pm

      The only ones ‘hijacking’ (the proper spelling of the word, which you obviously can’t manage) are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. You know, since they’re your kind: liberals.

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    • veruca salt
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:31pm

      The irony of Beck/Blaze accusing anyone of co-opting MLK‘s message after Beck’s stunt last June. “Oh, it‘s just a coincidence I’m giving my speech in the same place MLK gave the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. What’s that? Really? Mine falls on the anniversary of his famous speech too? Crazy how that worked out!”

       
    • Iam4EnoughALREADY
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:50pm

      Romans 13 1-7
      Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.
      6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

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    • Dale
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:52pm

      cheezwhiz;

      They are working – their job is to bleed working Americans!

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:14am

      @ Iam4EnoughALREADY
      Re: Romans 13

      The governing authority here in the United States is the Constitution, NOT Obama. He is the one that is in violation of the Scriptures. IMHO, God gave us a Republic, (self rule), and Obama took an oath to protect the Republic. He is in violation. If that was not true, then the American Revolution would have been wrong and you should still consider yourself a British subject.

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    • Peace
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:41am

      Is Muslim money backing radical labor unions

      To create a downfall of America.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:12am

      lovenfl3
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:41pm
      ————————————————-

      Very well said. The left is about to get a surprise. Just when they thought we were dead and gone, the Tea Party movement is about to get one hell of a shot-in-the-arm!

      Press Release: (Freedom Jamboree), Tea Party – 9.12 gathering this year… “Woodstock” but without all the Hippies, drugs, and trash! http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com

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    • r304indy
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:26am

      So Obnama is an Iman now?

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    • frodis
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:36am

      How about going back to work like the rest of America does everyday.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:36am

      “A national “teach in” will be held–and live-streamed–tomorrow in New York City, featuring Cornel West and Frances Fox Piven. They will be discussing austerity, debt, and corporate greed–and what you can do about it! Get excited.”

      I will be sure to tune in to see the faces of evil.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:55am

      And Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson would be absolutely correct…

      How dare these Union Thugs exploit Dr. Martin Luther King‘s Civil Rights movement simply to continue filling their pockets at taxpayers’ expense! Illegal aliens use this movement to gain amnesty while union bosses and their little foot-soldiers use this movement to fill their coffers…

      As always with the Left, when all else fails, resort to “race” and the “Civil Rights” movement… An absolute disgrace!

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:08am

      and the brainwashed union masses keep on with their stupidity. time to end all unions and boot every socialist, marxist, communist and anti-american person out of this country to the middle east or russia.

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:15am

      Appropriating MLK? Then you should enjoy this:

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/27/stewart-beck-rally-civil-rights_n_696758.html

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:02am

      Dr. King was about peace and love, God’s love! Shame on the people that would use his legacy for their agenda! How is paying these protesters? Are they being counted in the unemployment numbers?

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    • grandma7
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:18pm

      WE unite for LOVE (of country & our people).
      they unite for hate (of the same).

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:05pm

      Is there no limit how far some will stoop to try and get their way in an argument. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t die to protect or promote unions or union workers. MLK died for civil rights and racial equality in the USA. Labor unions have become what they originally united against, repression of the workforce in the workplace. Now the unions are the repressors and the workplaces are the repressed victims. An American worker should have the freedom of choice whether or not he or she wants to be a union member in order to obtain and maintain their employment.

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