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5-19-2013
MAY
29: Path to Citizenship Public Assembly
Little Flower Church / Kietzke and E. Plumb Ln. / Reno, NV
We Don't Need No Education: The Neverending Series
Nevada and North Carolina newspapers / 2012-2013
Star-stuck:
Dirty deals for dirty movies
Ghostrider
Nicolas Cage sticks it to Nevada school kids
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-16-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
This
week, do something nice for and/or fondly remember the progenitors of
organized labor: Mothers. Be
well. Raise hell. — AB
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This
land is your land
Coming
soon to a musical venue near you: The Almanac Trail Following
the path blazed by Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie
In the summer of
1941, a musical group of labor activists known as “The
Almanac Singers” climbed into a midnight blue Buick and
blazed a trail across the USA, spreading the gospel of unionism
and bringing folk music back to the people. The group, with
members Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Mill
Lampell, created a new kind of topical music, using old
folk melodies to tell the stories of the times.
They played in union
halls, on picket lines, theaters and radio shows, planting seeds
wherever they went. The Almanacs’ now almost-mythical journey
has become an inspiration for legions of musicians, free thinkers
and gasoline gypsies. It paved the road for many of today’s
singer/songwriters.
At the core of it
were some of the greatest labor songs ever written, including
Union Maid, Talking Union, and Which Side Are You
On? (Songs heard nowhere in Nevada other than on the Barbwire
radio/TV shows.)
Some 70 years later,
with the help and guidance of Pete Seeger and The
Woody Guthrie Archives, two modern-day troubadours are following
in the footsteps of the old Almanacs. With banjos and guitars
and a bag full of union songs, New York-based union musicians
“Totem Pole” Rik Palieri and George Mann
are traveling down the road from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles,
up the west coast and then from Seattle to Buffalo, singing
at some of the same places and towns, and inviting local musicians
to join in, as in the original tour.
The Almanac Trail
will be like an old-fashioned “hootenanny” —
an evening of history, music and fun for all generations!
George
Mann and his longtime
mentor and collaborator, the late great Julius Margolin,
played labor rallies in Nevada when Julius was in his nineties,
the Harry Kelber of labor music. [Click
here for the itinerary or here
for a video clip with Pete Seeger about the tour.]
George and Rik want to schedule Las Vegas
on July 25, 2013. Please
contact the Barbwire if you can help them put
it together.
Be well. Raise hell.
/ Esta bien. Haga infierno.
In Solidarity,
Andrew
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Mr.
Wynnderful waxes wealthier whilst we wither
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-9-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
CLINGING
TO THE LEDGE: SB457 (municipal election ward voting for Henderson,
Reno, Sparks and Carson City) comes before the Assembly Legislative
Operations and Elections Committee on May 7 along with SB458 (uniform
election act) and SB325 (plain language ballot). Read
more about them here. Show up and if you can't —> turn
on, tune in and tell a friend.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon
my Spanglish.)
The
asinine assassination of KJFK talk radio
The
Travus 'n' Andy Show's last chance
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-2-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
4-28-2013
National Workers
Memorial Day of the
Dead
You're
not worth much dead or alive
Impose
the death penalty on companies
knowingly causing worker fatalities
Do
you think your life is worth more than $566 a year?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-25-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
UPDATED
5-7-2013 with Robert Reich commentary
Gov.
Sandoval's $3 million New York State of Mind
New
Nevada ad campaign slips
on a sideways banana
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
Sunday 4-21-2013 Reno Gazette-Journal
Portions
of the above also appeared in the 4-10-2013 RGJ and the 4-18-2013 Reno
News & Review
Hopelessly
trying to win an earthquake
I
publicly wept when they looked at me.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-18-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Sitting
ducks in Sparks as storks stalk Carson
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-11-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
César
Chávez's fight continues
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-4-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Tony
Mayorga:
César Chávez event looks like America
Reno Gazette-Journal Guest Commentary
/ 3-28-2013
Sandoval,
César Chávez and the Grateful Dead
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-21-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Thank
you/gracias for a record attendance at César Chávez
XI. Watch this website for photos and information about the event. Remember
to mark Monday, 31 March 2014 on your calendar. Same time. Same place.
¡Sí se puede!
César
Chávez Celebration XI
Join
us again on Thursday, 28 March 2013
Gov.
Sandoval declines invitation for third year in a row
Celebración
de César Chávez XI
Jueves,
28 de Marzo, 2013 / Circus Circus - Reno
El Gobernador de Nevada, Brian Sandoval,
declinó la invitación por el tercer año consecutivo.
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Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown, Culinary
Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras, Local
86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (UPDATE: On 3-19-2009, President
Obama paid tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the Los
Angeles building named after the late labor leader. See the 1986
Chávez Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit.
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Fixing
education: The bulldozer solution
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Rally
to Protect Saturday Mail Delivery & Strengthen Postal Service
Sunday 24 March 2013 3:00-5:00 p.m. PDT
Reno Main Post office / 2000 Vassar Street
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FROM THE PAST —> FED UP AT
THE FEDERAL BUILDING (9-27-2011) —> More than
200 postal workers and members of other unions demonstrated at the
Bruce Thompson Federal Building in Reno in favor of passage of HR
1351, which would remove the funding drain now threatening the United
States Postal Service. The federal courthouse may be seen in the
window reflections of the auto in the foreground.
(NevadaLabor.com
photo) |
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AFL-CIO
and NAACP support Obama choice of Perez for new Secretary of Labor
Las Vegas Sun / 3-18-2013
Breaking
Solidarity:
Union goes unilateral, striking LV cabbies grumble, strike expansion
considered
Las Vegas
Review-Journal / 3-15-2013
Papa
Francisco Primero: ¡Viva La Revolución!
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-14-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Barbano
vs. vindictive lawmakers: Cutting prevailing wages won't stimulate economy
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review / 3-14-13
We
Don't Need No Education Part XVIII—>
Petition
pondering & pandering:
Just Say No, a Nevada tradition
CLINGING TO THE LEDGE—>Do the
Nancy Reagan thing
Just
say no to the teachers' tax petition and invalidate term limits and
right-to-work-for-less in the process. What's not to like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Special Online Abstinence Edition / 3-5-2013
An
edited and updated version appeared in the 3-7-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
The
brutal law of unintended consequences
Between the devil and the deep Joe Neal
Long-lost
research may invalidate more than 100 longstanding Nevada laws
IRONY ALERT—>New
higher electoral standard for teachers' tax petition may generate more
support
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2013 Daily Sparks Tribune
Barbano
back on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/radio program
