Month: July, 2013
July 4
| July 4, 2013 | 8:14 pm | Action | Comments closed

By Stewart Acuff

Time to celebrate independence

Freedom from tyranny

The long struggle to free all Americans

And to extend America’s promise

To all her people, right?

Without regard to race, creed, color,

Gender, sexual orientation, language,

Place of birth, choice of love

No, not this 4th, not now

But the 4th is not just about Independence

Its when Vicksburg, Ms fell to Union forces

Opening up the Mississippi River to the

Union from Minnesota to New Orleans

The 4th of July, the very same day is when

Union forces drove Lee’s Army of the

Confederacy from the battlefield of blood

At Gettysburg. That great struggle to free

African-Americans turned the irreversible

Corner on the 4th of July, 1863 and the

Union began to win ushering in a longer

Struggle for freedom and justice and

Equal rights for all finally realized in

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the

Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And now it no longer counts?

800,000 lives in the Civil War

Numberless lynchings–do you know what

A lynching is? It aint just a hanging

Its hours of sadistic torture with whippings

And castration and burnings and sadism

Of every sort.

And now this Supreme Court says that’s ok

The states have the right to deny what so

Many died for and suffered for

Is the Supreme Court of these United States

That ignorant or that redneck, peckerwood

Mean. I’ve seen ’em mean and they enjoy it

Like the peckerwood beat Ann Richards

For Governor–if rape is inevitable just lay

Back and enjoy it.

Tears will run down my cheeks this

4th of July for what our own Supreme Racist

Court has cost These United States

And the folks who meant to settle these

Questions once and for all on the 4th of July

At Vicksburg and Gettysburg

And at Selma and Birmingham and Albany

And Montgomery and Greensboro and

South Carolina State in Orangeburg

And in the sears and scars in the hearts

And souls of so many Americans

Who struggled to make America real.

Really, this 4th of July you five men

Decide none of that mattered, not the

Midnight screams and babies without

Daddies and six little girls in church in

Bombingham. None of it mattered.

Not the integrity of a nation?

Mr. 5 Supreme Court justices may you

Hear the screams at Gettysburg and see the

Hunger at Vicksburg, may you see

John Lewis and his clubbing and

Viloa Liuzza and her shooting on Hwy 80

Mr 5 Supreme Court justices may you

Hear the screams of Chaney, Goodman and

Schwerner as they were tortured to death

Outside Philadelphia, Miss. May you hear

The wails of the parents of 6 little girls in

Bombingham, Al.

May your soul and heart rest uneasy.

This is sin of the most awful sort.

But your action is in vain.

We aint goin back. Never.

Take your best shot. Kill us. Our souls

Rise up. Throw us in prison. Our hearts

Sing out. We aint goin back.

Throw everything you got at us.

We will take it and keep on comin.

We are already assembled on the

Battlefield of justice and we will keep

Comin on until we roll you over.

Manitoba budget harms workers
| July 4, 2013 | 3:59 pm | Action, Economy, International, Labor | Comments closed

By Darrell Rankin, People’s Voice, May 1, 2013

Dealing a blow to workers and the poor, the Manitoba NDP raised the provincial sales tax from seven to eight percent in its April 16 budget. Take-home pay is taking another hit, reinforcing Manitoba’s status as a low-wage province.

An active coalition to demand a Peoples Budget is needed now, or business groups will increase their grip on the provincial government in the 2015 election.

The wealthy elite will barely notice the PST hike. However, workers will have less for the necessities of life. This is a wage cut by other, indirect means – about $300 a year per family. Before-tax wages in Manitoba were $3,500 (or 8 percent) below the country’s annual average in 2012.

The budget follows the model of pro-corporate governments around the world, making cuts that harm workers and the needy and protecting the corporations and the wealthy. Impoverishing workers prolongs and deepens the economic crisis that has gripped global capitalism since 2008.

In one sense, it is a standard Canadian Prairie provincial budget with no grand vision or hope for a fair society. It is blind to inequality, the wholesale robbery of Aboriginal peoples, the inequality of women and the growing climate catastrophe. Good-paying jobs, higher education and child care will continue to be just a crushed dream for many.

Without any factual basis, Manitoba NDP Finance Minister Stan Struthers claims that the PST hike will be “shared by everyone.” Struthers emphasizes the need for urgent flood protection spending, but most new spending is for overdue maintenance and an aging population’s needs.

Needed spending has been delayed for decades as a way to keep public spending low and give Manitoba a “competitive advantage,” but there is a limit to how long our infrastructure will last. The Manitoba NDP’s spending and tax hikes were demanded by local corporate leaders.

There is no other reason why workers and the poor are facing this new burden. The Chamber of Commerce differs with the NDP only by suggesting that the PST hike be entirely directed to municipal infrastructure. And unlike the two-year wage pause announced in the 2010 provincial budget that continues to rob public sector workers of hundreds of millions of dollars, this tax hike hurts all workers.

Labour and other groups are condemning the budget for promoting inequality and failing to reduce poverty. For example, the Progressive Conservative and Liberal opposition parties both endorsed an anti-poverty campaign pledge to raise the welfare housing allowance to 75 percent of market value, weeks before the budget.

The budget raised the housing allowance by a paltry $20 a month, far below the required amount of $100 to meet the anti-poverty coalition demands. This is the first real increase in the allowance since 1992.

A relatively small sum of $19 million would solve the housing allowance demand, something the NDP might do before the 2015 election. It will take far more significant measures to eliminate poverty, create good-paying jobs and grow the economy than this minor reform.

The Manitoba Federation of Labour is pointing out that the NDP has cut $1 billion in personal and corporate taxes since it was elected in 1999. These tax cuts helped the corporate elite. They also helped create a weaker and more unequal economy.

Taxes must shift to a progressive basis, on ability to pay. An inheritance tax on large estates would also go a long way to boost revenue for needed public spending and reduce social inequality.

Working people and the poor are being told by the Manitoba NDP that they must pay more to solve the crisis. It’s like the NDP has no memory how Canada’s economy grew faster and more people had better paying jobs when the wealthy and the corporations paid higher taxes.

The NDP is pushing the line that taxes are good regardless who pays them because we need medicare and roads, but the NDP overlooks the main reality. Today’s tax hikes and spending cuts are impoverishing workers. They protect the greedy, not the needy.

The Manitoba NDP is creating a new, cruel reality just like other pro-corporate governments.

Darrell Rankin is the leader of the Communist Party of Canada Manitoba

Maduro reiterated call for U.S. extradition of Posada Carriles
| July 4, 2013 | 3:53 pm | Action | Comments closed

NOTICIAS 24
Thursday, July 4, 2013 07:39

Written by Telesurtv

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reiterated Thursday, the request to the U.S. government for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, a confessed terrorist who is sought by the Venezuelan criminal justice system for actions committed in the second half of the twentieth century.

In this regard, the President said that Washington has no moral standing whatsoever to seek the extradition of Edward Snowden, when you harbor and give cover to confessed terrorists like Posada Carriles, who did so much damage to the people of Venezuela and Latin America.

The head of state expressed to the U.S. government that it must first set an example and stop protecting terrorists operating in their interests, rather than threatening and attacking other states, other peoples and leaders from around the world.

He added that the Snowden revelations -an ex-agent of U.S. intelligence- have made the United States desperate and have gotten it to “act crazy” such as ordering the attempt against Bolivian President Evo Morales, who was detained on European soil for 14 hours, by actions of the governments of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal.

Therefore, he [Maduro] ] said they will follow the allegations and revelations that Snowden made, because they are publicizing the acts of conspiracy and espionage by the U.S. imperialists in the world.

Also, the Venezuelan dignitary called on the international community to protect the life and liberty of Snowden, because his actions intended only to report certain ills afflicting the world today.

Maduro arrived in the early morning hours of Thursday Maiquetía International Airport, in Vargas (North), which serves Caracas, from a working trip that took him to Russia and Belarus, nations with which ties of cooperation were strengthened and he signed new bilateral agreements.

The President was received by the Executive Vice President, Jorge Arreaza, and much of his cabinet ministers, who immediately noted the achievements and scope of his visits to Moscow and Minsk, as well as meetings with their counterparts Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, respectively.

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Jueves, 04 Julio 2013 07:39
Maduro reitera a EE.UU. pedido de extradición de Posada Carriles
Escrito por Telesurtv

El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reiteró este jueves al Gobierno de Estados Unidos el pedido de extradición de Luis Posada Carriles, un terrorista confeso que es solicitado por la justicia venezolano por acciones delictivas cometidas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

En ese sentido, el Mandatario destacó que Washington no tiene moral alguna para solicitar la extradición de Edward Snowden, cuando guarda y cobija a terroristas confesos como Posada Carriles, que tanto daño le hicieron el pueblo venezolano y latinoamericano.

El jefe de Estado le expresó al Gobierno de Estados Unidos que primero tiene que dar el ejemplo y dejar de proteger a terroristas que actúan en beneficio de sus intereses, en lugar de amenazar y atentar contra otros Estados, otros pueblos y líderes de distintas partes del mundo.

Agregó que las revelaciones de Snowden -exagente de inteligencia norteamericano- tienen desesperado a Estados Unidos y lo han hecho “cometer locuras” como ordenar el atentado contra el presidente boliviano, Evo Morales, quien estuvo secuestrado en suelo europeo durante 14 horas, por acciones de los gobiernos de España, Francia, Italia y Portugal.

Por ello, afirmó que seguirán acompañando las denuncias y revelaciones que haga Snowden, porque hacen públicas las acciones conspirativas, de espionaje e imperialistas de Estados Unidos en el mundo.

Asimismo, el Dignatario venezolano llamó a la comunidad internacional a protegerla vida y la libertad de Snowden, porque sus acciones sólo pretenden denunciar ciertos males que aquejan al mundo en la actualidad.

Maduro arribó en horas de la madrugada de este jueves al Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía, en el estado Vargas (norte), el cual sirve a Caracas, procedente de una gira de trabajo que lo llevó hasta Rusia y Bielorrusia, naciones con las que fortaleció los nexos de cooperación y suscribió nuevos acuerdos bilaterales.

El Mandatario fue recibido por el vicepresidente Ejecutivo, Jorge Arreaza, y gran parte de su Gabinete ministerial, a quienes destacó en seguida los logros y alcances de sus visitas a Moscú y Minks, así como de los encuentros con sus homólogos Vladimir, Putin y Alexandr Lukashenko, respectivamente.

http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/178591/ee-uu-entrego-a-nuestra-cancilleria-un-papelucho-pidiendo-la-extradicion-de-snowden/

REPORT FROM ‘HIGH NORTH’ SPACE CONFERENCE
| July 2, 2013 | 9:20 pm | Action | Comments closed

I am writing this from the Frankfurt, Germany airport where I have a three-hour layover on the way back to Boston. I flew early this morning from Kiruna to Stockholm and then Frankfurt.

One of our new Global Network Advisory Board members, Luis-Gutierrez-Esparza (President of Latin-American Circle of International Studies) from Mexico was met with a big surprise after he left Kiruna. Early this morning our board convener Dave Webb from the UK received an email from Luis saying that prior to boarding his flight in Stockholm Luis was pulled aside by United Airlines security and interrogated for 45 minutes about our Global Network conference. He was asked who paid for his trip to Sweden, who organized the conference, how the conference was funded, and for a list of all conference participants. Luis did tell them how his own trip was funded (by sources inside Mexico) but he refused to give any names of anyone else involved in the event.

This unusual interrogation of Luis indicates just how closely the military industrial complex is watching the work of the Global Network. They do fear the spreading of knowledge and resistance to US-NATO efforts to use the “High North” of Sweden, Norway, and Finland for space radars, satellite downlink stations, and testing areas for drones and other high-tech weapons. This incident should give us all full confidence that we are on the right track and the determination to continue, and to expand, our efforts.

I want to offer some observations from my conference notes that I think were particularly interesting and important. They are not in any particular order but all equally valuable.

The event was attended by people from the following nations: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, England, Russia, US, Mexico and Japan.

The conference began with singing by a Sami (indigenous people from the High North) man. Sami are best known for their reindeer herding. He sang prayers to his mother, grandfather, his friend, and the wind.
Kiruna is a city of about 20,000 people in the High North and while we were there we never saw the sun set – it is the land of the midnight sun.
Kiruna is a mining town and has the largest underground iron ore mine in the world. Because they essentially mine underneath the city the ground just below is expected to eventually give way so the city is being moved away from the mine and the process will take the next 30 years to complete. The mining company, owned by the state, will pay for the moving of the city.
During WW II the Nazi’s never occupied Sweden but instead they took the iron ore from Kiruna to Germany to build their war machine.
Just outside of Kiruna is the Esrange Space Center where they download images from satellites in polar orbits. The information from the satellites is used for both civilian and military purposes.
Expanding mining operations and the growing space testing range are having negative impacts on the Sami people’s culture and ability to herd reindeer.
One Sami woman speaker told us that we’ve all had our minds colonized by the western dominant culture and that we each have a responsibility to de-colonize our minds.

Norwegian journalist Bard Wormdal (author of The Satellite War) told us that Norway practices a “double standard” as they violate the Svalbard and Antarctic Treaties which strictly forbid military operations of any kind from happening at these north and south polar locations. In both cases Norway has downlink satellite stations at these two points and provide the US military with imagery that is used for war making. The Norwegian government still denies this even after the publishing of the book, which provides conclusive evidence of these treaty violations.

When the conference participants took a bus trip to the Esrange Space Center we got a briefing from a public relations team representing the Swedish Space Corporation. At first they told us that only civilian use satellite imagery are being downloaded at the center but after many knowledgeable persons in our group objected and offered the truth they reluctantly admitted that indeed satellite imagery is in fact provided for US and NATO military operations.
Russian conference participant Vladimir Kozin told us that when Obama recently spoke in Berlin about the need for cuts in nuclear weapons the Pentagon at the very same moment was releasing a new plan to upgrade existing US nuclear weapons based in Europe. The US is the only nuclear power that bases its nukes outside of its own country.

Kozin stated that the Russian government feels strongly that the US “missile defense” program (now being expanded with NATO to surround Russia) undercuts their strategic defense capability and makes hopes for nuclear disarmament virtually impossible.
In Obama’s Berlin speech he did not mention “one single word” about missile defense Kozin told the conference.
Kozin also reported that in recent times the US Navy has been sending nuclear submarines toward Russian submarine bases. (Imagine the outrage if the reverse was being done!)
The new European Union “Galileo” military/civilian satellite system (like the US GPS) will be used to explore for oil and natural gas drilling in the melting Arctic Ocean.
Activists from Finland showed the conference a map of the large drone testing area that has been established in their country. The 11,000 square kilometer test area is only 30 kilometers from the Russian border. In 2005 drones that were used in Afghanistan were tested at the range.
Finnish corporate controlled media, like in Sweden and Norway, are doing major anti-Russian propaganda that is pumping up conflict in the region.
We need to draft international anti-drone agreements at the NGO level and it was decided to begin that process right away.
It was also decided that the Global Network should pursue the idea of making a documentary video about the dangers of expanding “missile defense”.
Over and over during the conference links were made between climate change and expanding militarism. There was total agreement that we should all be demanding the conversion of the military industrial complex so that our resources can be used to deal with climate change.
We must turn the Arctic region into an International Nature Park in order to prevent the drilling for oil and natural gas and the militarization of the Arctic.
The development of robotic warfare technology may be the biggest military advancement since the making of the atomic bomb.
We must all talk more about how Techno-Fascism, and the worshipping of military technology, is a deep spiritual sickness.
A US military radar for “missile defense” is planned for deployment in the Kyoto prefecture in Japan. Resistance plans are now underway.
RAF Waddington in the UK is now piloting drones from that base. Protests were recently held there.

In Darmstadt, Germany US military downlink radars were removed some years ago but it was only recently learned that below the ground at that same location still exists a military war fighting computer center.

Following the recent disclosures about the NSA by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, the UK government told their media that they are not allowed to mention the NSA surveillance program and the Menwith Hill (US NSA spy base) in Yorkshire in the same breath.

There was a tentative decision made by the Global Network membership to hold our 22nd annual space organizing conference in 2014 near Vandenberg AFB in California.

It was also resolved to create a Nordic network to work on drone and space issues that would work to organize local actions during Keep Space for Peace Week – October 5-12.

The new documentary called The Ghosts of Jeju was shown to the conference and people loved the film about resistance to a Navy base on Jeju Island, South Korea that will port US warships as Obama’s “pivot” into the Asia-Pacific further surrounds China. People cried, clapped with the music at the end, and asked for how to get the film.

Everyone expressed their deep appreciation to all those in the Swedish peace movement for doing a wonderful job hosting our conference. Particular thanks go to Women for Peace and especially those in Kiruna who worked so hard to take such good care of us.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet@mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/  (blog)

FBI Documents Show Plot to Kill Occupy Leaders
| July 2, 2013 | 8:01 am | Action | Comments closed

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/18199-fbi-documents-show-plot-to-kill-occupy-leaders

By Truthdig
01 July 13

Did the FBI ignore, or even abet, a plot to assassinate Occupy Houston leaders?” asks investigative reporter Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy. “What did the Feds know? Whom did they warn? And what did the Houston Police know?”
A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund yielded an FBI document containing knowledge of a plot by an unnamed group or individual to kill “leaders” of the Houston chapter of the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street movement.

Here’s what the document said, according to WhoWhatWhy:

An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with approximately 6000 persons in NYC. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests have spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.)

Paul Kennedy of the National Lawyers Guild in Houston and an attorney for a number of Occupy Houston activists arrested during the protests said he did not hear of the sniper plot and expressed discontent with the FBI’s failure to share knowledge of the plan with the public. He believed that the bureau would have acted if a “right-wing group” plotted the assassinations, implying that the plan could have originated with law enforcement.

“[I]f it is something law enforcement was planning,” Kennedy said, “then nothing would have been done. It might seem hard to believe that a law enforcement agency would do such a thing, but I wouldn’t put it past them.”
He added that the phrase “if deemed necessary,” which appeared in the bureau’s report, further suggests the possibility that some kind of official organization was involved in the plan.

Texas law officials have a history of extreme and inappropriate violence. “Last October,” Lindorff writes, “a border patrol officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, riding in a helicopter, used a sniper rifle to fire at a fast-moving pickup truck carrying nine illegal immigrants into the state from Mexico, killing two and wounding a third, and causing the vehicle to crash and overturn.”

Kennedy has seen law enforcement forces attempt to secretly entrap Occupy activists and disrupt their activities in the city. He represented seven people who were charged with felonies stemming from a protest whose organizing group had been infiltrated by undercover officers from the Austin Police department. The felony charges were dropped when police involvement with a crucial part of that action was discovered.

A second document obtained in the same FOIA request suggested the assassination plans might be on the plotters’ back burner in case Occupy re-emerges in the area.

When WhoWhatWhy sent an inquiry to FBI headquarters in Washington, officials confirmed that the first document is genuine and that it originated in the Houston FBI office. Asked why solid evidence of a plot never led to exposure of the perpetrators’ identity or arrest, Paul Bresson, head of the FBI media office, deflected the question. According to WHoWhatWhy, he said:

The FOIA documents that you reference are redacted in several places pursuant to FOIA and privacy laws that govern the release of such information so therefore I am unable to help fill in the blanks that you are seeking. Exemptions are cited in each place where a redaction is made. As far as the question about the murder plot, I am unable to comment further, but rest assured if the FBI was aware of credible and specific information involving a murder plot, law enforcement would have responded with appropriate action.

Lindorff wants us to note that “the privacy being ‘protected’ in this instance (by a government that we now know has so little respect for our privacy) was of someone or some organization that was actively contemplating violating other people’s Constitutional rights-by murdering them.” He says “[t]hat should leave us less than confident about Bresson’s assertion that law enforcement would have responded appropriately to a ‘credible’ threat.”

When the Houston Police department was asked about its knowledge of the plot, public affairs officer Keith Smith said it “hadn’t heard about it” and directed future questions to the Houston FBI office.

The obvious question to ask in attempting to determine the identities of the planners is this: Who has sniper training? A number of Texas law enforcement organizations received special training from Dallas-based mercenary company Craft International, which has a contract for training services with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The company was founded by a celebrated Army sniper who was killed by a combat veteran he accompanied to a shooting range.

Remington Alessi, an Occupy Houston activist who played a prominent role in the protests and hails from a law enforcement family, agrees with attorney Kennedy that the plot likely did not originate with a right-wing group. “If it had been that, the FBI would have acted on it,” he said. “I believe the sniper attack was one strategy being discussed for dealing with the occupation.”

The grotesque irony here, Lindoff writes, is that “while the Occupy Movement was actually peaceful, the FBI, at best, was simply standing aside while some organization plotted to assassinate the movement’s prominent activists.”
Lindorff concludes: “The FBI’s stonewalling response to inquiries about this story, and the agency’s evident failure to take any action regarding a known deadly threat to Occupy protesters in Houston, will likely make protesters at future demonstrations look differently at the sniper-rifle equipped law-enforcement personnel often seen on rooftops during such events. What are they there for? Who are the threats they are looking for and potentially targeting? Who are they protecting? And are they using ‘suppressed’ sniper rifles? Would this indicate they have no plans to take responsibility for any shots silently fired? Or that they plan to frame someone else?”

Idaho AFL-CIO endorses HR 676, National Single Payer Health Care
| July 1, 2013 | 10:51 pm | Action | Comments closed

Rian Van Leuven, President of the Idaho State AFL-CIO, announced that on
June 12, 2013, the delegates to the 55th Annual Idaho State AFL-CIO
Convention passed a resolution to publicly endorse and support H.R. 676,
Single Payer Healthcare.

Further the resolution states “That the Idaho State AFL-CIO will develop
working relationships with community organizations in Idaho which advocate
for single-payer healthcare and Medicaid expansion.”

Louis Schlickman, MD, an Idaho physician who practices in Meridian and is
Co Chair of the Physicians for a National Health Program state chapter,
showed the movie Escape Fire and made a single payer presentation to the
convention prior to the passage of the resolution.

After the resolution for HR 676 was passed by the Idaho State AFL-CIO
Convention, Dr. Schlickman stated that, “Collectively we are all realizing
that unions in general can play a huge role in helping others, not just
union workers, see the merit in a single payer financing system of care.”

Dr. Schlickman observed that union members “have seen how one unexpected
illness or injury leads to significant catastrophes of health and income
status. And most important, they understand the issue of solidarity.”

Idaho is the 43rd State AFL-CIO Federation to endorse HR 676, which was
introduced into the 113th Congress by Representative John Conyers (D MI).
The bill is subtitled Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.

HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system by expanding a
greatly improved Medicare to everyone residing in the U. S.

HR 676 would cover every person for all necessary medical care including
prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and
preventive care, emergency services, dental (including oral surgery,
periodontics, endodontics), mental health, home health, physical therapy,
rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care and
correction, hearing services including hearing aids, chiropractic, durable
medical equipment, palliative care, podiatric care, and long term care.

HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save hundreds of
billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the
private health insurance industry and HMOs.

In the current Congress, HR 676 has 43 co-sponsors in addition to Conyers.

HR 676 has been endorsed by 604 union organizations including 145 Central
Labor Councils/Area Labor Federations and 43 state AFL-CIO’s (KY, PA, CT,
OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO, MN, ME, AR, MD-DC, TX,
IA, AZ, TN, OR, GA, OK, KS, CO, IN, AL, CA, AK, MI, MT, NE, NJ, NY, NV,
MA, RI, NH, & ID).

For further information, a list of union endorsers, or a sample
endorsement resolution, contact:

Kay Tillow
All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care–HR 676
c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO)
1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218
Louisville, KY 40217
(502) 636 1551

Email: nursenpo@aol.com
http://unionsforsinglepayer.org
7/01/13