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Week ending Friday March 11, 2011 Earthquake in Japan Continuing Special Coverage Our friends at Roots Action are hard at work on a new action in support of the “Full Employment & Training Act” (H.R. 870), just introduced by Congressman John Conyers. Can you help? What better way to finance good green jobs for millions of unemployed Americans than to tax the Wall Street juggernaut that created this economic disaster in the first place? The “Full Employment & Training Act” is a brilliant legislative remedy for two ills that afflict our society -- massive unemployment and speculative profiteering that keeps widening the gap between the rich and the rest of us. The law would make the Wall Street speculators behind the economic disaster pony up to create jobs: whether teaching children, making homes energy efficient, caring for the sick or rebuilding neighborhoods. Please help gather co-sponsors for the bill by signing the Roots Action letter to the Progressive Caucus. Wisconsin Continuing Special Coverage Wisconsin Continues Right-Wing Structural Reforms That Have Decimated the United States With the latest turn of events in Wisconsin, Republican state senators have circumvented the need for a quorum vote on Scott Walker's budget bill by leaving out the fiscal clauses and passing the new laws curbing collective bargaining rights for state and public employees. This dubious tactical manoeuvre strips away the pretence that Walker and his GOP allies have hitherto maintained that the legislative package was necessary to close the state's budget deficit: Walker's objective is, as protesters in Madison have argued all along, to break the last vestige of organized labour strength in the US – the power of public sector workers to organise and negotiate collectively. Stated or not, Walker's ambition is to complete what Ronald Reagan began 30 years ago. Read the complete story Our Top Ten Headlines... 'General Strike!' Thousands Storm, Reoccupy Wisconsin Capitol in Response to Legislative Votes Nuclear Emergency: Japan Warns of Radiation Leak from Quake-Hit Plant Gulf Spill Sickness Wrecking Lives Decline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, says United Nations From No 1 Fan to Critic-in-Chief, Damon Takes Aim at Obama Democrats Roll Out Climate Change Big Guns, Republicans Remain Immune Chevron Wins Halt to $18 Billion Judgment in Ecuador Pollution Case America's Secret Plan to Arm Libya's Rebels How Many Afghan Kids Need to Die to Make the News? Eco-Farming Could Double Food Output of Poor Countries, Says UN Our Top Ten Views... Robert Reich: The Birth of the People’s Party Robert Alvarez:On the Brink of Meltdown: The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Michael Moore: America Is Not Broke Chris Hedges: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us Thomas S. Harrington: Controversialization: A Key to the Right’s Continuing Domination of Public Debates Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis: Under Obama, Better to Commit a War Crime Than Expose One Bill Nemitz: Maine Librarian's Pointed Budget Message Hits the Mark Robert Freeman: 2011 is 1848 Redux. But Worse John Nichols: "Shame! Shame! Shame!" Ray McGovern: Pvt Manning: Is Army Aping Mafia? Home About Us Donate Sign Up Archives Videos... Walkouts, Bank Boycotts and Recalls: Wisconsin Protests Intensify As Union-Busting Legislation Pushed Through State Assembly Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills, Climate Justice, and the 'Shock Doctrine' Done American-Style The Story of Citizens United v. FEC: Why Democracy Only Works When People Are in Charge Michael Moore: 'This is War. This is a Class War That's Been Leveled Against the Working People of This Country' “Women’s Rights are Workers' Rights:” Kavita Ramdas on History of International Women’s Day and Challenges Women Face 100 Years Later Koch Bros.: Pulling Back the Curtain on Political Puppetmasters Exploring 'The Economics of Happiness' GOP for Small Government Except When It's Not Vandana Shiva: Earth Democracy Founded in 1997, CommonDreams.org is an Internet-based progressive news and grassroots activism organization. We are nonprofit, independent and nonpartisan. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. © Copyright 1997-2011 You are subscribed to Common Dreams as . Click here to unsubscribe