Greuel did not win women, the Valley or Republicans - LA Observed

Greuel did not win women, the Valley or Republicans - LA Observed

Congratulations Team Garcetti

Today in Labor History

May 22  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill., for role in Pullman strike - 1895

(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World -- the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)

While white locomotive firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike, blacks who are hired as replacements are whipped and stoned—not by the union men, but by white citizens outraged that blacks are being hired over whites.  The Engineers union threatens to stop work because their members are being affected by the violence - 1909

Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 gives federal workers a pension - 1920

President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms: to bring “an end to poverty and racial injustice” in America - 1964

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Alice in Cooperland playing in Fullerton, CA. June 1st

Friends please support my friend Larry Cornwall, next Saturday at the Slidebar, his Alice in Cooperland band will be rocking a FREE ALL AGES day show at 4PM in the outside patio. It's a killer place with great food and atmosphere.

Come out have lunch soak some suds and Rock out the "The most AMAZING tribute SHOW....ever.
 
They're bringing the guillotine the girls the ghouls the kitchen sink. It's a very fun show and you WILL know most if not all of these classic ALICE COOPER songs.

Big fun SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC.

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Exit poll says Garcetti by 8 points, but who knows - LA Observed

Exit poll says Garcetti by 8 points, but who knows - LA Observed

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Getting to Know Some of This Year’s SoCal Journalism Award Finalists

Getting to Know Some of This Year’s SoCal Journalism Award Finalists

Koch Brothers Protest this Thursday

Here is an Facebook flyer Phil Knight from Common Cause designed. Yea, Phil! It is being shared by the Courage Campaign. Please share it with all your friends on FB. The attendance has not really increased for a few days now. I'd like to try to get it up to at least 200 by Thursday.

 

 

Stop the LA Times Sale to the Koch Brothers

Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere

State Assembly candidate Jeff Ebenstein

A Talk With María Elena Durazo, Part 2 - Steven Mikulan

Warren Buffett is investing in newspapers. Should you? - NPR

How director Shapiro kowtowed to a Koch brother - Gannett Blog

Border newspaper stops covering cartels after repeated attacks - Poynter

Newspaper industry experiences many changes during 150 years - WDN

Koch brothers acquiring Tribune newspapers? I’d bet against it - Poynter

Latest Register Hires Share Maryland Newspaper Connection - Fishbowl LA

New press regulation could kill local newspapers, say publishers - The Times

Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh’s bike-cam video goes viral - Romenesko

New York Times CEO Lauds Digital Pay Model in Columbia Address - Bloomberg

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Pledge to vote for Eric Garcetti for Mayor

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Vote Eric Garcetti Mayor of Los Angeles 2013

Olivia Rubio

At Eagle Rock connecting with voters my favorite call of the day was the EG supporter that said " Eric para mi es el mejor para ser Nuestro alcalde"

(English translation: "For me Eric is the best to be our Mayor")

A solid yes! Makes my day!

Go Team Garcetti! —

Today in Labor History

May 20  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

The Railway Labor Act takes effect today. It is the first federal legislation protecting workers’ rights to form unions - 1926

(Understanding the Railway Labor Act: The title of this book says it all. Wilner is the ultimate authority on labor-management relations in the railroad industry. His latest book is incredibly helpful to those seeking to learn more about rail labor history, the mechanics of rail labor law, and how railroads and their multiple unions bargain collectively under the RLA's provisions. It is hugely helpful as well to those familiar with the RLA but seeking a reference work providing greater detail on the law's provisions and how they impact negotiations at the national and local levels.)
Some 9,000 rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio - 1933

 Some 9,000 rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio - 1933 

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Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles 2013

An excited crowd of Eagle Rock volunteers called voters reminding them to vote may 21st and sharing their stories for supporting Garcetti for Mayor. After some spirited words by Eric, Emmanuel and Jimmy Eagle Rock strikes a "V" for Victory! 

Vote May 21st Garcetti for Mayor!

 

Applying for Food Stamps - Los Angeles County

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Gannett Blog: Marketing | That was then, and this is now

Gannett Blog: Marketing | That was then, and this is now: "This is an exciting time to join Gannett. There’s a fundamental shift in the relationship between consumers and media today, and Gan...

Garcetti TV ad: LA Times, La Opinión, LA Business Journal all endorse Eric Garcetti for LA mayor

Intelligent. Reasonable. Job Creator. Potential to Meet the Challenge. The Easy Choice. With these words, the LA Times, La Opinión and the Los Angeles Business Journal all endorse Eric Garcetti for mayor. Eric Garcetti for mayor. Problem Solver. Proven Results.

 

Times-USC version of race tightens to Garcetti by 7 - LA Observed

Times-USC version of race tightens to Garcetti by 7 - LA Observed

Bob Marley Roots Tee - Men

Patch gets new CEO, lays off staffers

Patch gets new CEO, lays off staffers

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100 Hours - Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles 2013

In just under 100 hours from now, the polls will close.  

The votes will be cast.  

The pollworkers will pack up and start shipping the ballots downtown to be counted.

A new mayor will have been selected by the voters of Los Angeles and we will eagerly await the final results.

And this race will be a very close one.

Can you help us today, over theweekend, on Monday, and on Election Day, to get out the vote?  

You have been the most incredible group of dedicated volunteers - thousands of Angelenos who believe that our best days are still ahead of us and who donated so much time.

You know who I am - someone who has been focused for 12 years on neighborhood turnaround, a legislator who has written nationally-recognized initiatives to improve the quality of life for LA residents, and a public servant who has made the tough choices necessary to be an effective and independent leader.

Help the campaign get the word outthat this election matters and that every vote counts.  We want towake up on Wednesday feeling that we did all we could to ensure avictory and to move our city forward.

This has always been a people-powered campaign and that people power has never been more important than over the next 100 hours.

Finally, thank you for being alongside me on this journey.  It has been an honor, a privilege, and the best experience of my life.

Let's take it home.

With deep gratitude,

Eric

Eric Garcetti- Los Angeles Mayor 2013
Los Angeles, CA, United States

'New York Post' buyouts focus on 'loyal soldiers ... highest paid' | Capital New York

'New York Post' buyouts focus on 'loyal soldiers ... highest paid' | Capital New York

St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral Men's Fellowship

St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral Men's Fellowship is proud to announce Dad's FAMILY Night with special guests Motivational Speaker and Vietnam Veteran Bob "Mr. Inspiration" Wieland, Hollywood Stuntman, speaker and author Sammy Maloof and Singer/ Songwriter Janeen Ferdinand.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of dinner, fellowship, music, prizes, raffles and life-changing TESTIMONY! This event / dinner will take place in the St. Nicholas Heritage Hall at 2300 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles CA 90057. 

 

Save the date, share with your family and friends and DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! For more information, please contact George Hannah at dalool@aol.com, (626) 390-9285 or Jim Samore (323) 646-3717. Thank you for your support.

Today in Labor History

May 17   --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

First women’s anti-slavery conference, Philadelphia - 1838

Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954

Twelve Starbucks baristas in a midtown Manhattan store, declaring they couldn’t live on $7.75 an hour, signed cards demanding representation by the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. Management roadblocks continue to deny the workers their union to this day -

Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com

Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954 ~De

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

 

Washington Redskins Fedex Field Framed Wall Art

Miami Herald officially moves to new headquarters

Miami Herald officially moves to new headquarters

Thursday Night in the Blogosphere

Free The Press, Buy The Tribune Company

A Talk With María Elena Durazo - Frying Pan News

George Maloof enters closet to avoid reporters - SI.com

Washington Post Co. shuts 2 Maryland papers - Poynter

Activists turn to Indiegogo to buy Tribune's newspapers - Crain's

New site aims to be ‘a smarter version of MediaBistro’ - Romenesko

What ailing newspapers can learn from themselves - The Media Online

The old days of newspapers are gone, but the characters remain - The Province

Consumers rely on newspapers making purchasing decisions - El Dorado Spring

Honda Workers Become Latest Victims of Enterprise Zone  - CA Labor Federation

How To Jail More People And Make More Money For The State - Advice Goddess

The Wave endorses Garcetti - Los Angeles Wave: Editorials

The Wave endorses Garcetti - Los Angeles Wave: Editorials: The Los Angeles Wave endorses City Councilman Eric Garcetti for mayor in next Tuesday’s mayoral election.

Infamous right-wing billionaires Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers are threatening to buy the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Enough - let's buy the Tribune Company ourselves, and free the press.''

Free The Press, Buy The Tribune Company

Winning at the Race of Life

Vietnam Veteran, speaker Bob "Mr. Inspiration" Wieland and Hollywood stuntman & speaker Sammy Maloof are transforming lives across the country.

Bob has been chosen by Event Planners as one of the BEST motivational speakers for over 35 years & counting! Sammy Maloof is a Hollywood stuntman, business owner and host of his own reality show. This duo is motivating, mentoring, coaching & empowering corporations, schools, churches & organizations to WIN worldwide! Call us today or email chipinten@yahoo.com for booking information: (626) 292-2258. http://chipin10.com/

Shut the black guys “Big Mouth”!

By Haywood Galbreath

Yesterday I wrote that listening to O.J. testifying attempting to get a new trial for his robbery conviction in Las Vegas had opened up an old wound that had never quite healed for me or a lot of Americans!

The O.J. Simpson not guilty verdict has for almost 20 years divided America and broken it apart in reference to race relations! White Americans and Americans of color who want white Americans to find favor with them! Say that the verdict was unjust that he was guilty that the evidence was overwhelming pointing to his guilt! And that because of slick lawyers, money and a predominantly black jury a guilty man was set free! White Americans say their feelings have nothing to do with race and their continued anger has to do with feeling that the family’s and the victims did not get justice! So they feel justified in not letting this matter go and not forgetting what they say was injustice committed!

It’s not funny how time slips away or people take up certain causes that benefits them and there’s and wants you to forget about atrocities committed by them and there’s! For over 200 some years the justice system in this country as well as this nation as a whole that was ran and still mostly ran by white Americans has committed the atrocities and many, many untold atrocities against people of color upon this land! The justice system has and continues to disproportionately incarcerate black Americans especially black males at a higher rate than white Americans and give them more time for the crime than they do white Americans especially white male Americans!

In reference to murders committed against black people white Americans especially white male Americans have gotten off free found not guilty by a predominantly white juries! And white Americans do not seem to have a problem with it or cry out for justice for the victims or their families! It’s a hot topic for mainstream media one day one week or one month and then mainstream moves on to something else! Unlike mainstream media’s obsession with the O.J. verdict for almost 20 years!

White America you always telling people of color to get over it and move on! You need to get over it and move on! I called the O.J. haters out yesterday and challenged you to call me out! I had no takers seems to me that you would like to do what white Americans often say about boisterous black male Americans! And that is shut the black guys big mouth! But to be able to shut my mouth you have to be prove I’m not speaking truth! And to take a line from a movie “your people aren’t too good with dealing with the truth!”

-Iconic “history making” photojournalist Haywood Galbreath-

 

Today in Labor History

May 16 - Union Communications Services, Inc.
 
Minneapolis general strike backs Teamsters, who are striking most of the city’s trucking companies - 1934

U.S. Supreme Court issues Mackay decision, which permits the permanent replacement of striking workers. The decision had little impact until Ronald Regan’s replacement of striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) in 1981, a move that signaled anti-union private sector employers that it was OK to do likewise - 1938

Black labor leader and peace activist A. Philip Randolph dies. He was president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and first black on the AFL-CIO executive board, and a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington - 1979

 Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com

U.S. Supreme Court issues Mackay decision, which permits the permanent replacement of striking workers. The decision had little impact until Ronald Regan’s replacement of striking air traffic controllers (PATCO) in 1981, a move that signaled anti-union private sector employers that it was OK to do likewise - 1938 ~De

NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. 304 U.S. 333 (1938) is a 7-0 decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that workers who strike remain employees for the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The Court granted the relief sought by the National Labor Relations Board, which sought to have the workers reinstated by the employer. However, the decision is much better known today for its obiter dicta in which the Court said that an employer may hire strikebreakers and is not bound to discharge any of them if or when the strike ends.

The Mackay doctrine, as the striker replacement portion of the ruling is known, is one of the most significant Supreme Court rulings in American labor law, and has defined collective bargaining in the United States since its publication. "Mackay Radio was more than a decision that provided an instrumental method for a firm to replace economic strikers and to resist their return to employment after a strike. It was also a decision that established important practices that constituted the conduct of union-management bargaining during the post-New Deal Era."

The ruling is also highly controversial, even 70 years later. It is strongly and uniformly condemned by labor unions, and resolutely defended by employers. In the legal community, however, "the doctrine continues to provoke the notice and the nearly universal condemnation of scholars."
Mackay Radio has had a significant impact on collective bargaining and labor relations in the United States. As several legal scholars and others have noted, the decision makes the "United States... almost alone in the world in allowing permanent replacement of workers who exercise the right to strike."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Mackay_Radio_%26_Telegraph_Co.

 

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Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

LA City Attorney candidate Mike Feuer with LA Times Pressman Charles Laird

Selling ads by time, not space - Jeff Jarvis

Newspapers' only hope? Quality - Fortune

Protest of L.A. Times Sale to the Koch Brothers - LA Weekly

Desperate “Times” at Anti-Koch Brothers Rally - Frying Pan News

Merc puts its building up for sale - San Fransisco Peninsula Press Club

Hundreds protest possible Koch acquisition of Tribune papers - Poynter

Why newspapers matter to newspaper people - The Eatonton Messenger

Possible Sale of LA Times to Koch Brothers Sparks Protest - Fishbowl LA

Evening Sun in Hanover will move to three-day-a-week publication - Penn Live

UK's Sun to introduce paywall for online content..will people pay? - Editors Weblog

Tribune CEO responds to Koch brothers 'noise'

From: Peter Liguori
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:02 PM
Subject: Our strategic review process

There's been a lot of noise recently about the possible sale of our newspapers and speculation on who the interested parties might be. From the get go, such speculation has been and is premature. A sale transaction is only one of our possible strategic options, and there are many others.

Such speculation is understandable, as over the past several weeks we have received a great deal of unsolicited interest in our publishing businesses, which says a lot about the strength of our brands, the outstanding journalism you deliver, and the talent and dedication of each of you.

I’ve promised that we will be as transparent as possible about the strategic review, so I want to get you up to speed on where we are now.

First and most important, thanks to your hard work and innovation, our newspapers are performing well and we’re ahead of our 2013 financial plan. We’re delivering compelling journalism, which drives readership, circulation and advertising. Our sales force’s creative, performance-oriented advertising programs are delivering results that are above expectations. Finally, we’re engaged in thoughtful, efficient business practices and managing our publishing operations better than ever.

As we’ve discussed at our employee town hall meetings, we will continue exploring all strategic options to maximize shareholder value, including retaining and operating our publishing assets. The process is ongoing and no decision to sell our publishing assets is imminent.

An important element in maximizing value, of course, is continuing to do the incredible job you’ve been doing since the start of the year—delivering great content, expanding our reach, and developing new products. The Board of Directors and the leadership team is extremely grateful for everything you’ve enabled us to accomplish so far.

Thank you.

Peter

SOURCE: LAObserved

Mike Bonin on Eric's position on LAX Modernization

Everybody agrees on nearly all of the proposals - improving the terminals, bringing light rail to LAX, and building a consolidated car rental facility. Eric wants to move forward on these important projects as quickly as possible to create more jobs now, increase safety, relieve traffic, reduce pollution and improve the experience for passengers, workers and residents. Alt 2 contains all these projects, is the environmentally superior option, and won't increase traffic by disrupting Lincoln Blvd.

Today in Labor History

May 15  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis, where workers were striking for a 9-hour day. A lower court had forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing to obey the judge’s anti-boycott injunction - 1906

The Library Employees’ Union is founded in New York City, the first union of public library workers in the United States. A major focus of the union was the inferior status of women library workers and their low salaries - 1917

(Unions for Beginners: Written and profusely illustrated in a user-friendly, accessible style, Unions for Beginners lays down a simple presentation of the colorful epic story of the struggle of working people to rise from lives dominated by toil and underpaid work to becoming full-fledged participants in the American dream they helped to build. Unions for Beginners presents the history of unions and the labor movement, the principles underlying union organizing, the decline of unions in the shadow of the rising corporate state, and the resurgence in the 21st century of union activism.)

The first labor bank opens in Washington, D.C., launched by officers of the Machinists. The Locomotive Engineers opened a bank in Cleveland later that year - 1920

Death of IWW songwriter T-Bone Slim, New York City - 1942

Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathon Kwitney reports that AFL-CIO President George Meany, Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland and other union officials are among the 60 leading stockholders in the 15,000-acre Punta Cana, Dominican Republic resort. When the partners needed help clearing the land, the Dominican president sent troops to forcibly evict stubborn, impoverished tobacco farmers and fishermen who had lived there for generations, according to Kwitney’s expose - 1973

Gunfather Clock - Clocks

What journalists need to know about the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records

What journalists need to know about the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records

Koch Brothers Protest

Koch Brothers Protest, a set on Flickr.

300 men and women staged a protest over the possible sale of the Tribune Company newspapers to the Koch Brothers.