Cross Posted at Daily Kos
For the second time in several weeks, United Auto Workers are on strike. This time, it's the workers at Chrysler plants across the country. 49,000 UAW workers went on strike at 11:00 am EST time today against their employers to fight for their rights and a better contract. Even though Chrysler expects the strike to only last for a short while, we need to stand with our brothers and sisters in labor during this potentially difficult time. Follow me over the fold to find out more.
Today I had the pleasure of meeting one of our Congressional candidates from Nevada, Andrew Martin He is an alumni of my university and he came today to meet some of the students involved in our student government. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation about a variety of issues and the campaign itself and I was surprised to see no discussion of him or his campaign on the site. Let me share a few things with you about Andrew, if you'll follow me over the fold.
· Blanche Lincoln's website supports public option (desmoinesdem)
· Big Coal's PR Spending Spree (desmoinesdem)
· IA-03: Former college wrestling coach to challenge Boswell (desmoinesdem)
· Tea Baggers Target Gore... (Cliff Schecter)
· Stimulus Watch (Jerome Armstrong)
· CREW seeks ethics inquiry of Bachmann (desmoinesdem)
· Did IRC help? (MN Campaign Report)
· 5 Worst cities for urban youth (desmoinesdem)
· "The Bishops' Huge Financial Stake in Stupak-Pitts" (desmoinesdem)
· Conservative group wants FEC to override state laws on robocalls (desmoinesdem)
· URGENT: Call these House Ds Saturday to oppose Stupak amendment (desmoinesdem)
· WI-08: Wingnut plans to run as "conservative independent" (desmoinesdem)
