Time for Key Progressive Groups to ‘Get Together, Get It Together’

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/03/05/time-for-key-progressive-groups-to-get-together-get-it-together/

by James Parks, Mar 5, 2008

To ensure the 2008 elections turn our nation in a positive, progressive direction, union members must combine forces with civil rights and women’s activists and create a joint agenda for candidates—and hold them accountable when they are elected.


Eleanor Smeal


More than 50 people took a first step in creating that agenda last week at the National Labor College (NLC) in Silver Spring, Md. The Feb. 29 symposium, “The Action Agenda for African Americans and Women: Where Does Labor Fit In?” is part of the college’s celebration of Black History and Women’s History months.


Rev. Joseph Lowery


Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, sounded the theme of the conference, when she said:

It’s time for us to get together and get it together.

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, an NLC faculty member and organizer of the symposium, said:

The united forces of women’s rights, civil rights and the workers’ rights are a powerful force for creating and advancing a progressive agenda, which will find a receptive audience in the current environment for change.


FULL story at link.

[sam sarrha]

1. about 24% a gal is Bu$h Cronys skimming profits, the Clinton prosperity came from taxing the hell

out of them.. this is getting to be a national security problem, they shouldn't be allowed to profit from crisis.. read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine:the rise of disaster capitalism..