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		<title>Remembering May Day with movies: Black, brown, white&#8211; unite</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May Day&#8211; more than any other day&#8211; is a holiday for the 99%. For decades, on May 1, workers around the world have honored the memory of Haymarket Square and striking Chicago workers who were fighting for an 8-hour work day. From Wikipedia&#8230; The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) refers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Day of Action draws 1000 workers: Unions keep the pressure on AZ Legislators (video, poll)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/03/06/afl-cio-day-of-action-draws-1000-workers-unions-keep-the-pressure-on-az-legislators-video-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s AFL-CIO Day of Action at the State Capitol was a resounding success. Approximately 1000 workers came to Phoenix to express their displeasure with our state&#8217;s Republican-controlled government and the six anti-worker bills still alive in the Legislature. From the Huffington Post&#8230; The statewide AFL-CIO called for a Day of Action on March 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the eve of Super Tuesday: John Nichols critiques the Republican Presidential race (video)</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/03/05/on-the-eve-of-super-tuesday-john-nichols-critiques-the-republican-presidential-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Newt Gingrich really looking for his fourth wife on the campaign trail? Check out The Nation&#8217;s John Nichols&#8217; humorous critique of the Republican Presidential candidates. Nichols spoke last week in Tucson.]]></description>
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		<title>Four buses of Tucson unionists go State Capitol for Day of Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I originally reported on the AFL-CIO Day of Action, I said four bus-loads of unionists were going to the Capitol to lobby Legislators and demonstrate against the anti-labor bills. Correction: that&#8217;s four buses just from Tucson. Additional bus-loads will be arriving from other Arizona cities. As they loaded the buses, one participant told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 1 Day of Action: Will Arizona unions rise up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona AFL-CIO has organized a Day of Action for March 1. Four bus-loads of union members and supporters are descending upon the state capitol in Phoenix on Thursday. But will this Thursday be Arizona&#8217;s &#8220;Wisconsin moment&#8221; or will union members politely wander the halls of the Legislature and ask the wingnuts  legislators to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right to fire: Why do nurses need a union? (video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are nurses leaving the bedside? Here&#8217;s an explanation from loneprotestor&#8230; Several nurses met at breakfast the other day, and we discovered we had more than our profession and activism in common. For those who had worked at Banner Health, an alarming trend emerged: Banner seems to have a policy of firing for a trifle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Nichols of &#8216;The Nation&#8217; to speak in Tucson today, Feb. 27 (video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Nichols, well-known writer for The Nation and author of Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest from Madison to Wall Street, will speak tonight, Feb. 27 at the IBEW Hall in Tucson. Nichols comes to Arizona as our state faces its Wisconsin moment. With six anti-labor bills being considered in the Arizona Legislature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government against the people: Six anti-labor bills in Arizona Legislature</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/02/21/government-against-the-people-six-anti-labor-bills-in-arizona-legislature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six anti-labor bills are winding their way through the Arizona Legislature&#8211; four target unions, making collective bargaining illegal and outlawing union dues deductions from paychecks; one would strip civil service protections from 29,000 state employees, allowing the governor to fire civil servants and hire her pals; and the last is a ballot initiative which would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the attacks on public workers: Labor demonstration on Friday</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/tucson-progressive/2012/02/03/stop-the-attacks-on-public-workers-labor-demonstration-on-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor union members and Jobs with Justice labor supporters will be demonstrating downtown today against the anti-union legislation currently sailing through the Arizona Legislature. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC, a corporatist group that writes business friendly legislation for Republican legislatures like ours) and the right-wing Goldwater Institute schooled Governor Jan Brewer and her minions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs with Justice, Occupy Tucson, unionists, and Tucsonans fight for local postal jobs (video, poll)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Powers Hannley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucsonans turned out in force last week to support postal worker jobs and protect the Cherrybell mail processing plant from closure. Inside the Leo Rich Theater, a capacity crowd of more than 500 citizens listened to United States Postal Service (USPS) representative Brian McCoy&#8217;s dog and pony show touting plant closures and layoffs as the [...]]]></description>
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