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.
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· What Yesterday Says About Young Voters (Mike Connery)
· Max Blumenthal on the dysfunctional movement driving the GOP (Mike Connery)
· IA-Gov: Culver launches second tv ad (desmoinesdem)
· Hilarious Vid On Why We Must Vote No On Issue 2!! (Cliff Schecter)
· NY-23: Scozzafava Drops Out! (lipris)
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· McGovern Grandson Looks to Challenge Thune in 2010 (Jonathan Singer)
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· NJ-Gov: Daggett Goes After Christie and Corzine (Jonathan Singer)
