It is often hard to be away from home. No matter whether you’re on a holiday or you’re taking a break from your mundane life in your country or you’ve moved to a foreign country for work, there are times when you will yearn to chat with your mom, dad or your best friends whom […]
Reliance Jio to provide Service to 2.2 Crore Mobile Numbers
The details of the developments of its upcoming telecom venture, is what makes Reliance Industries’ annual report stand out from the rest. The developments suggest that the company may soon roll out its telecom services. Analysts and investors are of the opinion that the exact date of its launch will be announced by its Chairman, […]
Book Review: Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s recent book Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel weaves a collection of horrific tales with the lifelong activist’s wisdom and words of hope. This thin 75 page book (or booklet) is published by Seven Stories Press in 2010. Walker (no relation to me) starts the reader […]
In China, Another Failed Grassroots Election
Written by Oiwan Lam, Global Voices A retired worker from Jiangxi province, China, Liu Ping, had decided to run an economic justice campaign in the grassroots level election for her local seat in China’s People’s Congress. In the process, she and her supporters have been harassed by local police and on May 13, 2011, she […]
Million-Member Mobilization Momentum for Employee Free Choice
Posted by James Parks to AFL-CIO NOW The union movement’s nationwide drive to get at least 1 million signatures in support of the Employee Free Choice Act is gaining momentum. In just four months, nearly 300,000 people have signed postcards to tell the new president and Congress that working families across America want them to […]
Hawaii Legislature Passes Employee Free Choice Measure
by James Parks With passage of the federal Employee Free Choice Act a major issue for working people in the 2008 elections, lawmakers in Hawaii last week passed their own version of the bill. Union members were key to passage of H.B. 2974, which levels the playing field for workers considering a union. The legislation, which […]