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KPFA WorkWeek On Korea General Strike, Labor Elections and IBT and Muslim Registration

by KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio
KPFA WorkWeek radio hears a report on the struggle of workers in Korea and the planned Korean general strike on November 30, 2016. WorkWeek thens discusses the recent Trump election victory and what it means for labor with IBT International Vice President elect John Palmer who represents the South and Micah Uetricht, a reporter from In These Times. Last WorkWeek radio looks at the Trump plans for a national Muslim registry with SFSU Professor of Ethnic Studies Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi and the attacks on her by rightwing Zionists
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KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek 11-22- 16 Korea General Strike, Labor Elections and IBT and Muslim Registration
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww11-22-16-korea-gen-strike-labor-elections-and-ibt-and-muslim-registration
WorkWeek hears a report on the movement toward a general strike in Korea by Wol-son Liem who is the director of the Korean Federation of Public Services and Transportation Workers’ Unions/KPTU. She discusses the ongoing railway strike, truckers strike and the plans for a general strike on November 30, 2016. Her union is calling for solidarity actions throughout the world in support of the Korean working class. Next WorkWeek looks at the results fo the election for labor and the Teamster union elections. IBT Vice President elect John Palmer talks about the need to challenge "corporate" unionism. He is joined by In These Times journalist and associate editor Micah Uetricht.
Last WorkWeek discusses the growing attacks on Muslims and growing racism with SFSU professor of Ethnic Studies Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi and the attacks on her by rightwing zionists who launched acmapign to get her fired.
Additional media:
http://www.industriall-union.org/support-the-korea-general-strike-for-workers-rights?utm_source=Newsletters+in+english&utm_campaign=2a9c9b9484-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65751b77d5-2a9c9b9484-19101553
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww-10-11-16-ibt-issues-and-fred-zuckerman-agenda-for-teamsters
https://www.facebook.com/CFASF/photos/a.10150431289791418.411751.54713071417/10154389843601418/?type=3&theater
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwGGPvhgLjShEvq1r3aE6vVavnc30rIOIPMiYVMIOPqcK8dg/viewform
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§Teamsters Picket Port Of Los Angeles For Union Recognition
by KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio
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Los Angeles port truckers picketed the port for union recognition.
§AFL-CIO Continues to Support Democrats-Trumka One More Time For Demos
by KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio
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Trumka One More Time For Demos
The AFL-CIO continues to support the Democrats and most of the unions worked to support Hillary Clinton without a vote of their rank and file. Some workers voted for Trump in anger and disgust with Hillary Clinton and corrupt corporate controlled Democratic party.
by The Whole Picture
From: https://twitter.com/EugenePuryear, Nov 9 posting:
Clinton lost 6% of white workers BHO (Obama) won. Trump won 29% of Latinos, 13% of Black men. "Whitelash" is lazy narrative to promote.
The Green Party was on the ballot in 47 states plus DC. See: http://www.jill2016.com/ballot_access
The contested states where election fraud was committed are Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These are all states that usually have socialist candidates on the ballot as well. This is 2016, over 50 years since the Civil Rights movement and its accompanying legislation, 43 years since Roe v Wade of 1973 legalizing abortion made possible by a strong women's liberation movement that also legalized birth control, and brought us Title 9 in 1972 guaranteeing full funding for women's sports in schools. The white, European descendants are a declining population with a median age of 42 and rising and thus cannot determine anything. The fact that 6% of white workers, all of whom were born after this legislation, somehow think that voting for a fascist, anti-labor, rapist, racist billionaire is how to oppose Democrats only means that 6% of white workers have minimal intelligence. The rest of white workers know better, and so do the rest of the workingclass that bothers to vote. About half the adult population in this country never votes and most of the non-voters are the workingclass of all colors, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year. In San Francisco, a city where the term white workingclass is meaningless since it is majority minority, 37,688 people (9%) voted for Trump, and most of those voters are wealthy. They voted their class, a viciously anti-women, racist, anti-labor, fascist class. Let's just stop blaming the 6% of white workers who have no idea what they are doing in the voting booth when they vote for a fascist, racist, rapist billionaire.
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