REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
January 29, 2012

'It's no wonder, then, that the trite old phrase "class
warfare," which Republicans still wield, sounds so
stale and outdated. Too many Americans are aware that
they are the casualties of an economic cataclysm -- if
not an actual war. The old drumbeat of "class warfare"
won't dismiss their questions about a system that
increasingly favors the fat cats.' [...]

Indiana and NFL Union Leaders Protest Hyatt

By Tom Lobianco
Associated Press
February 3, 2012

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-superbowl-hyattpr,0,7320782.story

INDIANAPOLIS-

Indiana and NFL union leaders on Friday protested the
possible layoffs of hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency
in downtown Indianapolis as part of an ongoing labor
fight with the hotel chain.

Roughly 100 demonstrators marched outside the hotel
chanting and carrying signs with the Hyatt corporate
logo converted into a frowning face. The hotel is a few
blocks from where the Super Bowl will be played on
Sunday. [...]

Green Jobs

Keystone XL Opponents Need a Jobs Program

By Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Grist
February 1,2012

http://grist.org/green-jobs/keystone-xl-opponents-need-a-jobs-program/

Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking a
well-deserved victory lap. The Obama administration's
decision to reject TransCanada's pipeline proposal - at
least for now - represents an historic win for the
environmental movement, and reveals the potency of the
emerging alignment between the environmental, anti-
corporate, Occupy, and other movements. [...]

BlackCommentator.com Cover Story:

Left Margin

Medicare, Social Security & Medicaid Still Under Threat
in 2012

By Carl Bloice
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board
BC
February 2, 2012

http://www.blackcommentator.com/457/457_cover_lm_medicare_ss_medicaid_under_threat_2012.php

Next month, people in three Northern California
communities will get to see and hear up close former
senator Republican Alan Simpson, the man who once
referred to Social Security as "a milk cow with 310
million tits," and his trusted sidekick, former White
House chief of staff and Morgan Stanley director
Democrat, Erskine Bowles. [...]

Bulletin No. 37, February 5th, 2012

Left or Right, Where's the Threat?

By Victor Grossman

Berlin

Late last year the German establishment was caught with
its pants down. It was not a pretty sight! Early this
year, alas, while still hastily struggling to cover
itself up, its pantaloons fell again, dramatically
revealing a second, no less abhorrent sight than the
first one. [...]