Word: walkout
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...LAMEST DUCK Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, winner of the special election to replace Rep. Tom DeLay For the very brief time left on his term (that would be three weeks), inspires a mass walkout of her/his staff. Among other wacky behaviors, she insisted that Bush and Cheney should be present for her swearing-in. Well, there are a lot of swearing-in slots that are open for them this cycle...
...gave no indication Saturday whether he would stay put in office now that Fox has exerted control in the state. Ruiz's troubles began when Oaxaca's poorly paid teachers went on strike last June, accusing Ruiz of authoritarian rule and neglect of the poor and indigenous citizens. Their walkout became more strident and violent as more radical forces - including the APPO - joined in to call attention to Mexico's sharp and growing social divide between haves and have-nots. (Mexico has a dozen billionaires, but about half of its population lives in poverty.) By summer's end, after almost...
...Justice for Janitors” campaign and its ongoing campaign to win security guards the right to organize were both initiated by the workers themselves. The Coke boycott was called by workers and poor communities with their lives on the line in Colombia and India. Our walkout for immigrant rights last May was just one small piece of the national immigrants’ rights movement...
Though Monday’s student walkout in support of undocumented immigrants drew hundreds of protestors to a rally in front of University Hall, a follow-up strategy session last night drew just ten students. The Students Taking On Poverty (STOP) campaign, a nation-wide organization which was founded at Harvard in the fall of 2004, hosted the discussion, which was meant to suggest ways in which Harvard could help illegal immigrants. “In September, at our first solution session, we had about 80 people.” said STOP Co-Director Chaz M. Beasley...
...walkout protest could have achieved a great deal. Had there been a cohesive message, either supporting illegal immigrants, elevating downtrodden legal immigrants, or offering a way to improve immigration policy, there may have been far wider support. Instead, a loose and unrelated conglomeration of protestors milled about, confusing legality and illegality, state and statelessness, and haranguing about corporate America, handily ignoring the real issues that are facing the country...