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		<title>Hurricane Katrina and the Crisis of Black Politics</title>
		<link>http://nbjournal.org/2007/07/who-owns-the-levees-and-who-must-fix-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official society decided long ago that it no longer needed large numbers of Black workers in the city, so when the Hurricane hit they seized upon it as an opportunity to cleanse the city of what they saw to be its “surplus population.”  That’s why the struggle that Katrina refugees are waging to rebuild their city is emblematic of the kind of struggle that many workers will find ourselves waging in crumbling industrial cities from Newark to Detroit to Gary.]]></description>
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		<title>¡Si Se Puede!: Recent Immigrant Struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year one of the most remarkable protests in American history took place. Up to a million or more people marched in the streets, effectively staging walkouts from work and school.  These marches shocked official society and exposed to many the not-so-hidden conflicts underneath the surface of the supposed booming American economy and civil peace. They expressed a critical mass of accumulated frustration with increased attacks on immigrant workers in the U.S. over the past few years by the federal and local state governments, employers and a resurgent racist populist movement.]]></description>
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		<title>New York City Transit Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wheels on the bus did not go ‘round and ‘round for almost three days and no one could take the A train if they desired.  Though it barely survived three days, the New York City transit strike was national news.  It may not be permanently placed in our collective memories like famous nursery rhymes and jazz songs, but it should be. There were both important achievements and significant defeats in this struggle that affected tens of millions and had a whole city talking.  Taken together, they provide an opportunity to move farther in the future.  It is important to assess what was at stake in this strike and what were its limitations.]]></description>
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		<title>From the Wobblies to Change To Win?</title>
		<link>http://nbjournal.org/2007/07/from-the-wobblies-to-nup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two major events happened the last two years whose meaning many hope are interconnected in some fashion.  The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies, celebrated their 100th anniversary.  This was an opportunity to make a festival of the ideals of workers self-management.  Also, the New Unity Partnership (NUP), a faction within the trade union bureaucracy of the AFL-CIO, separated from the national labor federation.  Many have seen NUP as an important step forward in reviving the labor movement.  Now joined by the Teamsters, this coalition has the new name of Change to Win.]]></description>
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		<title>The New York City Firefighters and 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the anniversaries of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, we witness many television presentations recalling the sacrifices and heroism of the firefighters that survived and perished trying to save innocent citizens as the twin towers of New York City came tumbling down.  With this in mind we might reflect on what firefighters represent, not merely to American civilization, but to labor's role in its pursuit of self-government.]]></description>
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