Excerpt: "'There is broad frustration with the party and all elected officials, broad frustration with the lack of a union agenda,' Michael Monroe, chief of staff of the AFL-CIO's building trades division, told The Associated Press. 'People are looking for outlets to express that frustration.' The decision by the building trades came after a vote by leaders of the unit's 13 affiliate unions, including the Laborers, Painters and Electrical Workers."
A decision has been made by the building trades division of the NC AFL-CIO, which includes laborers, painters and electrical workers, not to attend the 2012 Democratic Convention. (photo: public domain)
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1. Elected dels. and alts. at the El Paso County Dem. assembly held outside in the bitter cold, without reason (i.e. zero or few in sign-in lines inside);
2. Some dels. and alts. intimidated and turned away, again without reason, after long stay outside in cold, by the unidentified N.S.A. govt. agent head of the local A.C.L.U.;
3. A very progressive in makeup platform committe, myself included, elected by dels. at the assembly, was dissolved within days by local Dem. party head;
4. Arrest at state convention (under eventualy charge of trespass on site rented by state Dems.) of two peaceful justice and peace activists who held up a large sign asking Dems. to quit funding wars (many dels. and alts. cheered said activists as they entered convention center prior to the arrest);
5. Attempt to arrest for trespass (same N.S.A. govt. agent mentioned above prompted call to police by another local J. and P. organization he then headed), a group of four, myself included, who met on public parkway to plan for anti-war demonstrations at Dem. national convention in Denver;
6. Mass violations of civil rights (i.e. to assemble, to exercise free speech, etc.) outside Dem. National Convention in Denver.
You will play RIGHT INTO THE REPUGS hands, if you, or anyone else follows this strategy. APATHY is what got us to this point in the first place. The baggers, though fewer in number made their presence felt. WHY ON EARTH would a ROTTWEILER run from a CHIHUAHUA? GET OUT THE VOTE IN 2012!!!!
You're damn right we're angry! Not only voting Democrats are angry, so are many working republicans especially when those "entitlements" hit them in their pocket books!
Obama is a weak president in spite of the majority of Democrats which are perhaps conservatives wearing Democrats clothing.
Yes, the Chihuahua is biting at the heels of the rottweiler! And it's about time the rank and file Democratic Party don't take fir granted those who got them in office in the first place!
The fact that the Republican has lost touch with the American people doesn't means and the Democrats in Washington should give in to Republicans.It could only mean that perhaps we need a third Party candidate or better yet, replace Obama and kick out those blue dogs from the Party!
After all, what have we got to lose, we are just about losing everything we labor unions gain with this Democratic Party now on hand.
Obama is perhaps the most intelligent, the most well liked and admired President, not only in the USA, but throughout the world at large. His fault is, he is too nice a guy and the Republicans know that and take advantage of it.
It's obvious President Obama surrounded him with losers, advisors who gave him the wrong impression. Obviously, he wasn't smart enough to realized that and he will most likely be a one-term president and that is the best dreams the GOP had!
What the Democratic Party need, in spite of the sorry politics in the USA now, is a someone with the combinations of a Franklin D. Roosevelt, A Harry Truman and a Bill Clinton combined.
President Obama, are you listening?
We are now destroying and have capitulated our God fearing nation to self-destruct. The enemy was not on the outside, but dwells right among us. Our American people are so divided and they cannot reasonably agree together anymore to save our natio, its people and the future generations.
God Bless America!
Unions don't have to support the current administration, if they don't feel they are getting help from them, but they should be there at the Convention and once again tell the American public what is going on in Washington.
And they must remind everyone that no workers are pressured in to joining a Union. Why would any worker, who is being treated fairly in wages and benefits pay extra money out of their pocket to belong to a Union to try to get them more? Workers are not greedy, like big employers are.
And, there are more workers than big greedy bosses and corporations, so the thing for Unions to do is to educate the American public about what they can do if they all work together. Even if it involves a 'dancing with the stars' approach.
Americans need to turn off the tv and turn back on their life, or else there will be no American TV because Americans can not afford to buy the products that sponsor American TV.
It's time to wake back up to reality that there are some people who want to control this country at the expense of everyone else. It has to stop.
AGAIN, THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM. IT SHOULD BE EASY!
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