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Eating Raoul is such an outstanding comedy
Ed Begley Jr getting choked to death with his own hippie beads is a great moment in history
I can’t wait to eat the Bland enchilada
“Do you realize we’ve raised almost $1000 in the last two days?”

“Just by killing people.”
“Paul, you could buy a new frying pan? I’m just a little queasy cooking in the one we use to kill people.”
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This Day in Labor History: February 13, 1865. The Sons of Vulcan win the nation's first union contract. Let's talk about this pioneering early union and this huge victory.
The Sons of Vulcan formed in 1858 in Pittsburgh, including workers laboring in the small but steadily growing steel industry that would explode after the Civil War.
Most of these early iron and steel workers were immigrants who came over from the mills of England, Scotland, and Wales.
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I see Hillary committed another of her murders, this time of Lyndon LaRouche. From Vince Foster and Ron Brown to Andre the Giant and Bea Arthur, who has Hillary not murdered?
Or maybe Betty White is the one who has killed all these people. Let me check 4Chan.
All I'm saying is that Kirk Douglas had better lock his doors.
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Book #14 for 2019--Jonathan Rosenblum, Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of Labor Movement. A largely excellent study of the Fight for $15 and unionization campaigns in Sea-Tac. Great look at where unions have to go.

amazon.com/Beyond-15-Immi…
A lot of books in this genre can be frustrating, because they are so pushing an inside baseball agenda where union leadership does no right and worker democracy does no wrong. Rosenblum does not repudiate this, but presents a far more nuanced view.
Rosenblum was one of the SEIU organizers on the Sea-Tac campaign and his point is that worker power needs to be goal of the union movement. He notes that the union movement is simply not prepared to deal with the needed transformation to broad-based community organizing.
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