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• • 18 Jun 09
  • 5:15 pm

  It will be interesting to see if Congress will cave into corporate bribes, campaign contributions to defeat or weaken the proposed Employee Free Choice Act. Given Wal-Mart's total disregard for humanity and the law, I see no reason to shop there. Whatever discount one gets in purchasing merchandise from Wal-Mart, one must pay in human misery! Not much of a discount, is it?

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• • 05 Jun 09
  • 2:26 pm

  I voted for Obama last November but I knew if REAL change was to be made the people would have to get involved and demand it! Whether it was immigration reform, healthcare reform, labor law reform, punishing Bush & Cheyney, we the people would have to get into the trenches and fight for this! I am disappointed with Obama's flip flop on healthcare. I detest Max Baucus' refusal to even consider single payer. ( He is one of the biggest recipients of healthcare insurance bribes oops, I mean campaign donations! The fact that 18,000 to 22,000 Americans die annually due to …

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• • 02 May 09
  • 11:55 am

  M aturing of today's left? Not hardly. What failed support for the revolutions of Cuba and Venezuela signifies is today's lack of class consciouslness. Too many in today's left expect paradise to exist when right wing tyrants are overthrown. This is both naive and ludicrous. Until a left led government is fully in place, there will always be the threat of counter revolution such as the CIA led overthrowing of the elected government of Chile's Salvador Allende. I would urge today's leftists to carefully research human rights violations by U.S. supported regimes such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Pakistan, S. Korea., …

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• • 07 May 09
  • 4:20 pm

  In my hometown of San Antonio, TX most of us are discourage from going into hotels that only well to do tourists can afford to stay at. If we go in to use the rest room we are asked to leave! In the U.S. not long ago people were arrested and never charged for criticizing Bush's lies regarding 9/11 and Al Qaeda. Forced sterilization was prominent up until about 35-40 years ago especially in the south. In 1969 I was suspended and lectured to because I refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I informed the principal that I owed no …

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• • 08 May 09
  • 11:15 am

  Bueno hermano, no hard feelings! You have your opinions based on experiences and I have mine! I will continue to support the revolution because not to would only give support to the imperialist, corporate controlled U.S. government! I love the United States, I despise the government! Que Sigue La Lucha Por La Justicia!

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