Federation of labor has been interested in the political scene for many years because of the fact that to a large extent, the conditions under which we work can be determined by legislation. Whats the difference between 1952 and 1948, for instance . Why was this particular year . Because of the passage of the taft hartley act followed by the establishment of a official political arm of the American Federation of labor that year. And then entry into the Political Campaign of 1948. Since then in addition to the law, we had 28 state legislators pass what we consider the repressive legislation and so far as trade unions are concerned. In order to carry out our objective and long range ageold objective if you want to put it that way of improving conditions under which the great masses of workers of america work and live, we have to consider the political field more and more. In other words, the people who are opposed to us have chosen the political battleground. Who you say this endorsement
Captioning performed by vitac the first crew was expedition one and were up to 44. Weve got two americans and three russians and japanese astronaut up there. It truly is an international crew. Sometimes theres a canadian, a german, italian, its always swapping out there. And right here scott kelly and mikhail are doing a one year mission, spending a year up in space. Its 342 days. Its not quite a year but im going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Its a year mission there. Scott is has an identical twin brother mark kelly married to gabriell gabrielle dif fordse doing a twin study. And the iss is currently funded by nasa through 2024. After that time, were not sure whats going to happen. But nasas commitment runs out in 2024. Ive got to believe the russians arent going to want to give this up either. They dont like to throw space stations away. If nasa abandons it, i could see them jumping in there and saying well take it, well run it and maybe do something commercially with it. S
Which moves to challenge three, assisting labor as an overriding strategic task. The Labor Movement is an essential cornerstone of transformative politics. Not everyone in the left is of this mind. Some do not want no part of the process of change. Still others include labor in a very long list of other political actors. This obviously is in our attitude. When organized, united, and equipped with a democratic vision. The working class in this sector possess transformative power. Of course, this is not the case today. The membership is at its lowest level since world war ii. It is on the defensive and fractured. The left and the labor, while is still small in size and the barriers to reconstitute are revitalized and the growing Labor Movement are formidable. Now, if this were the entire story it would be a bummer. I would go on vacation and head to the pub by noon. But, it isnt. Labor is breaking out of his defensive shell, opening its arms to millions of new members, and taking new ini
I would venture to say it is the predominant view of the elite of our culture. Prominent in europe as well which has become very secular. It embraces ideas about liberty and personality to the nature of human beings that are distinctive socially liberal views lifeanddeath issues generally identity issues the spectrum of socalled hot button morally charged issues in our culture. That is a view that i am writing the book against kemal i hope respectfully because it is a view that has very credible supporters and i want to do them the justice that they deserve. They put forward arguments. I want to put forward counterarguments have gone i have found that secular liberal views are so widespread as to go largely unquestioned. As a result many yields to the the temptation to believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a big it all religious fundamentalist. Reason and science they confidently believe on their side. Guest that is me have on anything you want to add to that . Guest i think i
Can tell you, we have evolved beyond holding tea parties. A georgia, we are beginning Precinct Organization plan. We are going after swing and independent voters. We formed a coalition with the grassrootsservative organization in georgia. We are going to be very competitive in the primary. We need to elect people to congress and two Elective Office that are not going to be in the pocket of big business, Big Corporation sponsors. They are going to say no to them we would a shame that send elected officials to washington dc that care more about appeasing their corporate you continue corporate cronyism and corporate welfare. They talk about our Entitlement Society and how we need to reform our welfare system and entitlement system. Total agreement with that. But we also need to reform subsidies, stop corporate welfare and corporate subsidies, and we need to tell the government to stop picking winners and losers. Subsidies are monopolies in the energy field are the governments ways of pick