"If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity.....

[marmar]

... They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.

- IWW organizer Joseph Ettor, taken from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."


WE CAN starve this beast.

[BeFree]

1. We can

The question is: will we. No doubt a price will be paid by those who are the first to stop. Heck, I've given up much already... the fancy cars, a big house, etc. People tell me they wish they could be as free as me, but when I tell them what they must give up, they flinch, mightily.

[CTyankee]

2. I have said this, and said this, and said this. It started with Reagan's union busting

and when he got finished the union movement was pretty much dead in the water for all future elections.

The fact is that the Repubs have successfully targeted and won over the vote in their own former strongholds. The union movment is just one of them. Of course, the Southern Dems vote was lost when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act in 1968, as he said it would. Good riddance, of course. But we've been bleeding votes for a long time now and we have to get them back.

If we don't pick up LOTS of votes from the SCHIP thing in the next election, then we are screwed. We've simply got to do it!