Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008 - YouTube
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech at Steelworkers conve...
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 05/10/2008
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka offers this moving defense of Obama against racial attacks. (h/t Sullivan )
Sort by The Daily Dish (Free subscription) - 02/10/2008
A pretty amazing speech by the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka. To see a white union man take on racism this way is very moving. Something truly profound could happen in this election, if we want it to:
Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 16/10/2008
Back in August, I described here how AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka took on the issue of race and the elections head on. Trumka's speech to the United Steelworkers has, in turn, sparked a debate within the union movement that has been carried forward by other union leaders, including AFSCME President Gerald McEntee and AFGE President John Gage.
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Sort by Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) - 09/10/2008
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka's recently gave a speech to the recent USW convention, and his powerful words spoke directly to those "hard working white Americans" who cannot move beyond their fears to vote for Barack Obama. He does not hold back in terms of challenging peoples' biases, he assigns responsibility to those of us who ignore -- or are in denial about -- the bigotry out there...
Sort by Oliver Willis (Free subscription) - 02/10/2008
Confront racism. Head on. (via)
Sort by Israelated (Free subscription) - 06/10/2008
(Hat tip to piratejenny)
Sort by DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) - 02/10/2008
This morning when asked why Obama is gaining momentum everywhere in the country while his own polling numbers are tumbling, McCain sputtered and groused to his buddies at Fox that " life is unfair ." With support from voters solidifying around Obama's calm, measured approach-- and rejecting the McCain campaign's erratic and hysterical reactions to everything-- the battlegrounds for November have been...
Sort by feminist blogs (Free subscription) - 02/10/2008
Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO speaks bluntly about fighting racism, how it’s used to divide workers, and why it’s very wrong to vote against Barack Obama because of the color of his skin: The right spent a long time working to turn the hardhats against those who believed in social change, a lot of time working to get the union rank-and-file to vote against their own interests on economic ground, to...
Sort by Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) - 03/10/2008
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, (via Clusterflock)
Sort by Bitch. Ph.D. (Free subscription) - 01/10/2008
This speech might make you tear up; it did me. It's certainly timely as hell. "The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable...
Sort by AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) - 06/10/2008
Wow. Just wow. When AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka gave a heartfelt speech at the United Steelworkers ( USW ) convention last July about the need for all of us to overcome racial prejudice when voting for president and instead cast our ballots for our economic interests and in support of America's future prosperity, we knew he hit it out of the ballpark. Now, literally millions of others...
Sort by VivirLatino (Free subscription) - 11/11/2008
Remember how we all felt so good that Obama recognized that Colombian union leaders were getting murdered by corporations and stated as such during the debates? Remember how the Colombian organization, Association of Indigenous Couincils, wrote their letter to Obama...
Sort by culturekitchen (Free subscription) - 02/10/2008
Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO speaking to all working class Americans. McCain and Palin like to talk about "Joe Six Pack," to use Palin's term, but Obama actually knows what working and middle class Americans go through. Let me add a quote from the conservative newspaper, the Stockton Record , on this point: Republicans have tried repeatedly to paint Obama as an elitist. Hardly. He grew up in a single-parent...
Sort by democrats.com (Free subscription) - 22/09/2008
Listen to AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka explain how to combat racism toward Barack Obama.
