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BREAKING NEWS
Reno-Sparks NAACP asks that Regional Transportation Commission finally honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

Read My Lips Roulette
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-11-2008

Las Vegas Musicians Union leader Thom Pastor seriously injured by drunk driver

The 38th anniversary of Kent State

List, lust and political roulette
Barbwire/Sparks Tribune 5-4-2008

Labor Day everywhere but the U.S.
Workers Memorial Day
Déjà vu all over again

Washoe Med: Renowned for Ripping Us Off
Inhospitable Reno hospital terrorizes its nurses for daring to picket for an hour. So take it to the streets!
Barbwire Special Web Edition 4-10-2008
Updated 4-11-2008

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN — Washoe Med nurses picket during a one-day strike on 6-23-2001. The issues were the same as during a 1990 organizing drive and remain today: Understaffing which erodes patient care so that the conglomerate may profit and proliferate on the backs of health care consumers and taxpayers.

Who's on Worst?
Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize
Barbwire 4-6-2008

This day in history: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King., Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968
Three days of commemorating King in Reno, April 4-6, 2008
Remembering King by forgetting him

Reno Chávez event plays to overflow crowd

Reno, Sparks and Washoe County declare
March 31, 2008, as César Chávez Day

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.

(Photo courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers' Union Local 169.)

More stories and photos from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit.

César Chávez: This day in history

César Chávez Day brings labor and management together in Reno
Annual event at Circus Circus March 31 will also bring together César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
U-News 3-27-2008

GIANTS 3: The beast awakens and comes full circle
Barbwire 3-30-2008

Week of the Giants Begins
United Auto Workers demonstrate while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and César Chávez offer advice

3-23
-2008

Giants will walk among us again
Barbwire 3-16
-2008

Annual César Chávez Celebration
Circus Circus Reno — March 31, 2008

UAW and other unions protest unfair trade
at Reno General Motors warehouse

Reno Gazette-Journal 3-29-2008
Sign the petition online

Painters Union pickets Scheels store at Sparks Marina Legends development

New Paycheck Deception Initiatives Filed

Communications workers picket Reno subcontractor

Republican immigration plank plunked into Democratic platform
Employer and employee sanctions spark opposition

STRIKE LOOMS CLOSER — Culinary Union pushes for injunction against Reno Grand Sierra

The Dean's List

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

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The tale of our gorgeous graphics

In 2002, we were honored to produce the Centennial Book for the 100th anniversary of the founding of northern Nevada Painters and Allied Trades Local 567/AFL-CIO. Working on a short time frame, we cast a nationwide net for appropriate cover art and succeeded beyond our wildest dreams thanks to muralists Kathleen Scarboro and Kathleen Farrell. The above illustration ("Papering the World: Joliet's Wallpaper Industry") appeared on the cover and interior of Local 567's Centennial Book, copies of which have been submitted to Nevada libraries and historical organizations. The mural, painted on a wall in Joliet, Illinois, depicts Painters Union members manufacturing wallpaper the old fashioned way, long about the time of Local 567's founding. Ms. Farrell is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, an affiliate of the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades/AFL-CIO. Ms. Scarboro is a member of the Maison des Artists in Paris, the association which represents artists in France.

Ms. Farrell executes murals, mosaics and figurative sculptures for the labor movement. Her work and that of others may be viewed at the Friends of Community Public Art web site. "We have added new table top size sculptures for sale as well as additions of our life size sculptures," she says. "A number of the sculptures feature union members including the Baseball Player (The Catch) and The Firefighter. I have also finished the rad workers sculpture I mentioned awhile back. I welcome work from unions that would like to buy the existing sculptures or hire me to create awards, tabletop size sculptures and life size sculptures."

Sister Farrell may be contacted at terri@fcpaonline.org; phone (815) 722-4140; fax (815) 722-9007. You may view more of her work and obtain additional contact information at http://fcpaonline.org/artist.asp?a=farrelka

Rotating at the top of this site as well as in pastel form in the background of this page is a mural produced for the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union/AFL-CIO. The others were acrylics on canvas done for the United Food and Commercial Workers and to memorialize the plight of U.S. chicken processing workers (si podemos). Enjoy.

Be well. Raise hell.

Murals/montages copyright © Kathleen Farrell



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