Nurses Launch Protest Web Site and Twitter
“I think there is mass discontent in America,” says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United. That’s why her union is introducing ProtestInTheUSA.com, a web site and Twitter feed that would be a “clearinghouse for left politics.” DeMoro agrees with Cornel West that President Obama “has domesticated the left.”
Obama Block Grant Cuts “Betray” Constituency
The president’s proposal to halve funding for Community Action Block Grants, a 46 year-old legacy of President Johnson’s Great Society, is “a huge betrayal of his national constituency,” says Rhode Island-based journalist Brett Warnke. “This is something only a liberal Democrat could do, it seems,” says Warnke, whose recent Counterpunch article is titled, “Obama’s Onslaught On Community Action.
Do Employers Discriminate Against Jobless?
Yes, said some experts that testified before an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearing. Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, noted online advertisement that stipulated: “Only currently employed workers need apply.” Dr. Algernon Austin, of the Economic Policy Institute, also based in Washington, DC, said the practice “is something we should be seriously concerned about, because Blacks are about twice as likely to be unemployed as whites.”
Critical Race Theory
BAR’s Dr. Jared Ball cites Emma Coleman Jordan, the noted Critical Race Theorist, in maintaining that the multiple crises confronting Black America are “a violent result of an ideology which results in economic and social policies predetermined to this effect.”
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