Tuesd




 



The unmatched and comprehensive online meeting hall for Nevada workers since 1995
"Our republic and its press will rise or fall together." — Joseph Pulitzer
Je Suis Charlie
Site Map

Andrew Barbano Editor/Publisher
Photo: Debra Reid, Sparks Tribune


Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

— Abraham Lincolnm

First annual message to Congress 12-3-1861

UPDATED on 8-23-2026 GMT

Site Map
Memo to modern short attention spaniels: This front page is chronological, the site map is categorical.

SITE NAVIGATION TIP: When all else fails, read the instructions
(A favorite John Hanks aphorism I've been using for decades)

Breaking News & then some—>

Hawk Fire burns 10,500 acres —> Evacuations remain
Reno Gazette-Journal update 06:38a.m. PDT 8-23-2026

01:58 PDT 8-23-2026—>Reno Nevada Hawk Fire Evacuation and Warning Info
Perimetermap.com is vague. Google Ai shows the current evacuation area. Google hawk fire reno nevada update evacuation/ CALL 775-882-TALK [8255] or Send updates and I will do the same / Stay safe. ANDREW QUARANTINO BARBANO

Instant Replay—>Top 10 Cures for What Ails Us

NVEnergy tries to fry your grandma
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-5-2026

The Mid-'26 Barbwire Blue-footed Booby Prizes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-29-2026

More Barbwire by Andrew Barbano

The 10th Commandment and the 10th Amendment / 7-22-2026

AT&T's License to Kill / 7-15-2026

Fixed fights bite fixers in the ass / 7-8-2026

Father, forgive them / 6-24-2026

Teach your children well
Lost Horizons
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 6-10-2026 Sparks Tribune

What did Emperor T-Rump do to deserve this?
A very private island
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 6-3-2026 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-5, 6-7-2026 GMT

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out.
See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

The Shoes of the Fisherman
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 5-27-2026 Sparks Tribune

The Pope and Rope-A-Dope
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2026 Sparks Tribune

From the den of iniquity to the holy of holies
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 3-25-2026 Sparks Tribune

Pope Leo hits T-Rump and WarHog on Palm Sunday
By  Amelia Benavides-Colón | NOTUS / Salt Lake Tribune / 3-31-2026

Prayers answered: Pope Leo takes T-Rump head-on
Trashes iL Dittatore’s Signature Policy
Suggests that T-Rump administration isn’t as “pro-life” as president’s supporters seem to think.

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops
By Leigh Kimmins / Reuters via The Daily Beast 10-8-2025

The Holy of Holies sprays Lysol on the Den of Iniquity
Pope Leo Urges U.S. Bishops to Support Immigrants
Pope Francis earlier suggested that Trump was “not Christian”
By Elizabeth Dias and Elisabetta Povoledo / The New York Times 10-8-2025

Conservative Clergymachistae: "SANTA MERDA! SANCTUS CACAS! Mama Mia!"

Barbwire Pope Leo XIV Roundup
(Where were you in April 25?)

Make love, not war / 8-31-2025
Windy City Showdown: Pope Leo vs. the American Mad King/8-27-2025
Pray for deliverance from the dogs of war
ANGELS FOR AMERICA: Leo-14 & Lech Walesa for the good guys/6-18-2025
Confessions of an altar boy / 5-14-2025
Barbwire first in the world to call for an American pope—>
Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD? JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER?
ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY.
Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES!
At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself.
And please lemme know what you think.

From the Holy of Holies to the den of iniquity
ST. MARY'S NURSES AGAINST UNHOLY CORPORATE OWNERS
Sign the union petition for a fair contract!
NevadaLabor.com health care and nursing archives

Election Ebola and other viruses
Emperor Donnie went to show them Commies the error of their ways.
He came empty-handed when he landed and the Xi-man was amazed.
Xi picked his pocket, kept his wallet, put them in the Great Hall,
With a Ming Dynasty pickle jar containing Donnie's balls.
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 5-20-2026 Sparks Tribune

Reno City Hall: the asylum abides
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano 5-13-2026

Goat dressing, goat polo & Amex horsethieves
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 5-6-2026 Sparks Tribune

Grandma files action vs. Amex horsethieves
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-29-2026 Sparks Tribune

X-Rated Amex flips the bird to customers
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-22-2026 Sparks Tribune

The Pope and Rope-A-Dope
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2026 Sparks Tribune

 

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

"What profiteth it a man if he would gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" — GOD

"So, we have a deal, right?" — Donald Trump

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx
Still crazy after all these years.

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992

The naked truth about war

How to Live Forever
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-8-2026 Sparks Tribune

My Golden Girl
50 years ago today
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 4-1-2026 Sparks Tribune

Betty J. Barbano
2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005
 Remember her laughter

My Golden Girl
50 years ago today

On January 16, 1959, two babies were born.
They became sisters in both life and death.

Larry Barbano, Frater Mei
12-18-1947 / 10-18-2023

THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
New York 3-12-2026 —> Wanda Sykes advocated for Pope Leo XIV as the final guest May 21 on the T-Rump-canceled CBS Late Night show.
Let's get it on! —>WORLDWIDE ONLINE PETITION
Right here—>VOTE NOW yes or no —> and spread the word!
Andrew Quarantino Barbano, Emeritus altar boy (ret.)
Alleluia

From the den of iniquity to the holy of holies
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Expanded from the 3-25-2026 Sparks Tribune

Pope Leo hits T-Rump and WarHog on Palm Sunday
By  Amelia Benavides-Colón | NOTUS / Salt Lake Tribune / 3-31-2026

Vote to get Pope Leo on Colbert's show
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbano / Expanded from the 3-18-2026 Sparks Tribune

Barbwire first in the world to call for an American pope—>
Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? YOU BE THE JUDGE

Welcome to FantasyLand boys and girls
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbano / Expanded from the 3-11-2026 Sparks Tribune

 

Under the Blood Moon —> Little Boys Playing with War Toys
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / from the 3-4-2026 Sparks Tribune / Harry Ron Hu photo

Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

A Win in the Woods: 174 Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Workers Join the IAM union
International Assn. of Machinists / 3-3-2026

INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Communications Workers Union organizing rural Nevada brothel
CBS News / 2-13-2026
BLAME THE NCAA for sports' Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) gold rush
United Brothel Workers website

Speaking of morality plays —>

We become what we despise —Goethe


Operation Epic Distraction
Trump launches joint military operation with Israel against Iran

— Ann Telnaes

Please pardon my suggestion to a double-Pulitzer winner, but shouldn't it be more accurately called a "special military operation"? Maybe she was afraid Putin would sue for trademark infringement. He'd probably let it slide for his fellow candy-ass warrior. Alas and alack, when little boys play with their war toys, people die. — AB
'toon and caption copyright © 2026 Ann Telnaes

 

Judge not or judge tenderly
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-25-2026

BARBWIRE BY ANDREW BARBANO
Expanded from the 2-18-2026 Sparks Tribune
Melt ICE —> Mask up!

BARBWIRE BY ANDREW BARBANO
Expanded from the 2-11-2026 Sparks Tribune
B-Movie: Bad Bunny, Ballgame, Bernstein and Barbano's Beethoven Brunch

BARBWIRE BY ANDREW BARBANO
Expanded from the 2-4-2026 Sparks Tribune
We don't need no stinking badges!

BARBWIRE BY ANDREW BARBANO
Expanded from the 1-28-2026 Sparks Tribune
What if you knew them and found them dead on the ground?

In Memoriam: Executed by Trump Gestapo
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alex Pretti, American citizen 1988-2026
Renee Nicole Good, American citizen 1989-2026
South Padre Island, Texas
Ruben Ray Martinez, American citizen 2002-2025
Requiescant in pace

'toon copyright © 2026 Ann Telnaes

 

 

THE ORANGE CRUSHER'S CITRUS CANCRE METASTASIZES

January 22, 2026

Nevada Press Association Defends Press Freedom After Courtroom Removal of Reporters
NPA condemns removal of journalists who refused to accept unconstitutional reporting conditions.

The Nevada Press Association is deeply troubled by the removal of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters and a photographer from a Clark County courtroom Wednesday after they declined to accept a judge’s condition restricting what they may report, including reporting an alleged victim’s name.

Judges do not have the constitutional authority to dictate what the press can publish. The First Amendment protects a free press from government censorship and prior restraints, and courts must not impose content-based restrictions on journalists as a condition of access to public proceedings.

We stand with the journalists who were exercising their fundamental rights and will continue to defend press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Additional Statement—> “It is astonishing that Nevada judges continue to deny access to court proceedings and court documents after repeated rulings that find such restrictions blatantly unconstitutional. Such actions will only have the effect of elevating scrutiny on the judiciary for attempting to censor already-published details about a high-profile case.”

— Bob Conrad, Publisher of This Is Reno and President, Nevada Press Association

Media Contact: Brian Allfrey
Executive Director, Nevada Press Association
brian@nevadapress.com
www.nevadapress.com

THIS MEMBER OF MARK TWAIN'S UNION DISRESPECTFULLY CONCURS WITH THE DISSENT! —> Quarantino

AND SO WOULD THIS ONE —>

Time to kick some ass!

Be well. Raise hell. Vaxx up and stay safe.

Andrew Quarantino Barbano
NevadaLabor.com

Hmmm...Does Judge Machine Gun Michele Fiore know about this?

War is peace, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-21-2026

Is the light breaking through at last?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-14-2026

Venezuela is Spanish for Vietnam
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-7-2026

The 2025 Barbwire Blue-footed Booby Prizes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-31-2025

TRANSITIONS

Norman Cardoza, 95, 5th Barbwire nominee inducted into Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame

BOXCARS!
Barbwire wins 12th Nevada Press Association award

Hi yo Silver 2025
3-12-2025
4-17-2024
4-3-2024

2024 NPA Barbwire honorees say goodbye

Guy Louis Rocha, 73, dies one year after hall of fame induction
Guy Louis Rocha 'Never knew a stranger'
By Siobhan McAndrew and Jason Hidalgo / Reno Gazette-Journal 9-19-2025

Saturday 9-27-2025 memorial service for Mary Highton-Foxton, 102
Widow of 2024 Barbwire honoree Jake Highton

Requiescant in pace

The seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captives on the carousel of time
We can't go back, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the Circle Game
— Joni Mitchell

Who will answer?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-17-2025

 
Make love—>not war

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

War in moderation?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Windy City Showdown: Pope Leo vs. the American Mad King
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-27-2025

Blame Nevada for T-Rump cancer
37th anniversary Barbwire
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-13-2025

Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame
BREAKING NEWS—> 5 down, 3 to go
7-31-2025 Barbwire Winner
Congratulations to Barbwire nominee & Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Cardoza
Reno Gazette-Journal

Ignore the jesters and you fester
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-30-2025

Payback Time: Colbert to PBS
Never gonna happen? Neither was an American pope. See above.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-23-2025

Guess what? 2-time Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes went to Reno High School

Her 'toon the Bezos WaPost censored

Left: "Dead Puck" © 2025 Ann Telnaes
(Also a bit of a self-portrait)

 

LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR

Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts:

6-22-2025 — I posted the following promo on LinkedIn and Facebook before the Persian Perversion. What the hell, we've been basically at war with Iran since 1953 and we are still looking for a 51st state, right? All we need is a congressional rubber stamp to legitimize this bastardized obscenity of a special military operation.

ANGELS OVER AMERICA
Pope Leo & President Lech Walesa
God knows we need lotsa help

Walesa starts U.S. tour in August, Leo14 already sold out Chicago White Sox stadium — via satellite! Read all about it at Barbwire.US

Barbwire by Barbano, the ONLY advocate for an American pope — immediately last April, long before the conclave. Proof positive posted at April 23 column.

Be well. Raise hell. Stay safe.

SOLIDARNOSC! Subscribe at BallotBoxing.US

Sometimes I regret my chutzpah when I occasionally guess right. I've said for months that when T-Rump saw his political support at home slipping, he'd start a war. an oft-successful ploy employed by his Russian mentor. So he did. (Maybe that's why they were on the phone so long a few days ago.)

There's only one thing left—> Remember when the Mad King said this in 2024 to the precious snowflakes looking for simple solutions: "Re-elect me and you'll never need another election."

More with the Barbwire this week. Working title: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges — or democracy. (Props to Humphrey Bogart and Alfonso Bedoya.)

We apparently need intervention from elsewhere (see below) as the nation feels "Helpless, Helpless, Helpless". (Props to Crosby, Stills Nash & Young.)

Where be our better angels?

 

ANGELS FOR AMERICA
Pope Leo-14 and President Lech Walesa for the good guys
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 6-18-2025

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Never, ever forget that name
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-28-2025

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Confessions of an altar boy
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 5-14-2025

Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

Happy MLK Day. Sorta.

Copyright © 2025 Ann Telnaes

Front Page Archive July-December 2025

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Top of this page

Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo / Felice Anno Nuovo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2026
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Pope Leo, Pope Francis, Ukraine and 160 currently war-torn lands, including ours.

Golden Oldies & Timeless Ticklers

Je Suis Charlie

30+ years of Barbwire Archives thru today

 

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

"What profiteth it a man if he would gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" — GOD

"So, we have a deal, right?" — Donald Trump

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx
Still crazy after all these years.

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992

The naked truth about war

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Make love—>not war

War in moderation?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

Political Animal Crackers & Crackups

      "I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you are a democracy...I'm still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It is as if people there are being reared in a sort of altered reality, like broiler chickens or pigs in a pen."

— Indian novelist Arundhati Roy
in the Barbwire of 9-12-2004

Cancelling Arundhati Roy in today's fascist India
By Salil Tripathi / Guardian of London UK 4-21-2024


      The American electorate is a dumb cow that follows the herd, is easily stampeded, gets milked for all she's worth and produces offspring for meat, muscle or cannon fodder to benefit the few. When all used up, she is sent to the slaughterhouse so that she may give her overlords the last full measure of devotion, bones for Jello and hide for belts. No stars and stripes for her grave because she doesn't merit one, having been totally consumed by our consumptive system. — Barbwire 9-12-2010

"If elections mattered, they wouldn't let us do it."
Travus T. Hipp, 1982

Alas and alack, where it all leads (tol'jaso, long time ago)

Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

a

Je Suis Charlie

30+ years of Barbwire Archives thru today

The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in 500 words
SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 1-3-2011

SITE MAP

SITE NAVIGATION TIP: When all else fails, read the instructions
(A favorite John Hanks aphorism I've been using for decades)

Front Page Archive July-December 2025

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Top of this page

Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

All the news you never knew you needed to know—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

Navigating the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS DEPT.—> A year or so back, I got my first criticism in more than two decades that this site is a bit confusing to navigate. I take that as a compliment. Confusing people is one of my few talents.
    I thought I had anticipated any such problems years ago by liberally sprinkling links to the front page site map. (These days, am I supposed to say that I sprinkled progressively rather than liberally?)
    The front page of NevadaLabor.com acts as a chronological listing of recent workplace news with the latest at the top. I archive annually to create a continuous permanent record fully accessible via the site map or any garden-variety websearch.
    "We Don't Need No Education" is now approaching its 100th installment and long ago earned its own section inside. Say hi to Don Quixote.
    Current Barbwires plus more than 20 years of columaniacal archives, the Statewide News Roundup and Breaking News/Bull'tins/Almanac are all available via the site map—>as well as the usual general or specific ongoing madness and historical inflammation. (Once something's posted here or to any of my other sites, it's up forever.)
    While the front page is chronological, the Statewide News Roundup is categorical, e.g., construction, hospitality, legislation, health care and many others. Breaking News/Bull'tins/Almanac often publishes original U-News as well as links to items at other sites that are not hot enough for the front page chronology. The NevadaLabor.com search engine acts as a short-cut to everything, depending on what you seek. So simply seek and ye shall find.
    As my old friend Wise John the Lake Havasu Cropduster Pilot often says, "when all else fails, read the instructions." So when all else fails, re-read the above, then go to the nearest site map link and/or "search." The NevadaLabor.com search engine is really amazing. It's also union-signatory and thus quite efficient.
    Thanks for your inputs and support over lo, these many years. Keep up the good work and the good fight.
    Esté bien. Haga infierno. / Be well. Raise hell.

—> Andrew the Barbwire Man


Editor's Note: Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me, please read this bulletin — AB) UPDATE: In early 2008, the Las Vegas Sun "upgraded " its website, nuking more than a dozen years of links. If you find an orphaned Sun story, search their site for the title.
 
`



NevadaLabor.com Site Directory

Navigating the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com

Front Page Archive July-December 2025

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

30+ years of Barbwire Archives thru today

Top of this page

Latest Breaking News & Bulletins + Almanac + Archives 1999-present

2023 U-News Front Page Headlines

2022 U-News Front Page Headlines

2021 U-News Front Page Headlines

2000-2021 U-News Front Page Archives

U-News Statewide Archives 1996-2018

In Search Of...

Right to Work for Less | Nevada Labor History | Sparks Centennial
Building Energy  | 100 Years of Union Apprenticeship

DoctorLawyerWatch.com | Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive| BallotBoxing.US

War Rooms: Banks, Cabbies, Cable TV, Cabela's, Cancer Kids/Mining, Consumer Rights/safety, Civil Rights: MississippiWestNV.org, Corporate Welfare, Energy, Health Care, Renters Rights, ReSurge.TV, Starbucks, Wal-Mart

NEW —> WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION
The Neverending Series
The Barbwire Molly Ivins Memorial Columniator Hall of Flames

Un-dissing the Dead—>The campaign against forcibly-paid newspaper obituaries

Labor Links | Nevada Writers | About the Editor | Deciding Factors


Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

MEMORIES OF MEmorial

 


The unmatched and comprehensive online meeting hall
for Nevada workers since 1995



The tale of our gorgeous union-created 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


Back to the top of this page

Site composed and maintained by Deciding Factors, CWA 9413/AFL-CIO signatory

Comments and suggestions appreciated. Click here and ask for inclusion on our mailing list.
But before you do so, please read this bulletin — AB

Entire contents copyright © 1982-2026 Andrew Barbano

[CWA 9413/AFL-CIO]