If you wanted to be woken up when September ends, here’s your cue. To the links!<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dave provided the link in his previous post<\/a>, but if you were interested in listening to John Garamendi, George Lakoff, and David Atkins talk about the Majority Rule<\/a> project for a full hour on Angie Coiro’s show on Green960, here’s the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 The CDP is asking its supporters to sign a petition<\/a> urging our legislators not to adopt the ruinous recommendations of the Parsky Commission. Cal Labor Fed chief Art Pulaski<\/a> and CA Tax Reform Association ED Lenny Goldberg<\/a> gave the Parsky Commission a failing grade as well.<\/p>\n \u2022 In a major settlement, PacifiCorp in Portland will decommission four hydroelectric dams<\/a> which have blocked salmon migrations on the Klamath River. It won’t begin until 2020, but if successful it would reverse one of the worst abuses of the Cheney Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Very interesting piece in the New York Times about workplace enforcement crackdowns<\/a> on undocumented workers, in particular the firing of almost 1\/4 of the workforce at American Apparel in Los Angeles. It’s certainly more humane that workplace raids, but some community leaders, like Mayor Villaraigosa, still don’t seem to like it – he wants the Administration to focus on workers “exploiting” immigrants (which would still lead to them losing their jobs, no?). We need a comprehensive solution, in the final analysis.<\/p>\n \u2022 Polling numbers in Maine regarding Question 1 are looking…well, decent.<\/a> 50% no, 41% yes, with 9% undecided.<\/p>\n \u2022 This<\/a> is just part of why Republicans just can’t seem to win over Hispanics. I’ll start liberating my news releases any day now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you wanted to be woken up when September ends, here’s your cue. To the links!<\/p>\n \u2022 Dave provided the link in his previous post<\/a>, but if you were interested in listening to John Garamendi, George Lakoff, and David Atkins talk about the Majority Rule<\/a> project for a full hour on Angie Coiro’s show on Green960, here’s the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 The CDP is asking its supporters to sign a petition<\/a> urging our legislators not to adopt the ruinous recommendations of the Parsky Commission. Cal Labor Fed chief Art Pulaski<\/a> and CA Tax Reform Association ED Lenny Goldberg<\/a> gave the Parsky Commission a failing grade as well.<\/p>\n \u2022 In a major settlement, PacifiCorp in Portland will decommission four hydroelectric dams<\/a> which have blocked salmon migrations on the Klamath River. It won’t begin until 2020, but if successful it would reverse one of the worst abuses of the Cheney Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Very interesting piece in the New York Times about workplace enforcement crackdowns<\/a> on undocumented workers, in particular the firing of almost 1\/4 of the workforce at American Apparel in Los Angeles. It’s certainly more humane that workplace raids, but some community leaders, like Mayor Villaraigosa, still don’t seem to like it – he wants the Administration to focus on workers “exploiting” immigrants (which would still lead to them losing their jobs, no?). We need a comprehensive solution, in the final analysis.<\/p>\n \u2022 Polling numbers in Maine regarding Question 1 are looking…well, decent.<\/a> 50% no, 41% yes, with 9% undecided.<\/p>\n