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The Story of One New Arizona Voter |
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(AFL-CIO blog, 11/15/12)
I've been on the ground this week in Arizona to help a campaign UNITE HERE invested in this year called Adios Arpaio. Adios Arpaio was a massive voter-registration campaign, aimed at voting out the notoriously anti-immigrant Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, that was led by 2,000 high school students, many of them the children of immigrants. We registered 35,000 new voters, and 70% of them are Latino. I've spent some time here before and many, many weeks since helping with everything I could.
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Marvel President Kevin Feige Named Motion Picture Showman of the Year by IATSE Local 600 |
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(THR, 11/14/12)
The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild will fete the exec at its annual luncheon Feb. 22 at the Beverly Hilton.
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Hollywood Unions Cheer Defeat Of Prop 32 |
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(deadline.com, 11/7/12)
Entertainment industry unions today lauded the defeat of Proposition 32, the so-called “Paycheck Protection” initiative on California’sballot. DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, Professional Musicians Local 47, Teamsters Local 399 and IBEW Local 40 joined other labor unions in the state urging a “no” vote on the measure.
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Unions Expand Voter Turnout Effort Thanks to Citizens United |
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(Las Vegas Sun News, 11/1/12)
It’s a Saturday morning, and the young, black woman who just opened her door to Yolanda Florian in North Las Vegas is clearly tired. But Florian knows she has found a prime target, and she’s not about to let her go back to sleep.
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Mayor’s Race Draws Big-Spending PACs |
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(Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 10/30/12)
A union-backed political action committee known as Workers for a Better Hawaii spent more than $700,000 in recent months supporting Hono¬lulu mayoral candidate Kirk Caldwell and opposing former Gov. Ben Cayetano.
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Con: Proposition 32: A trick to silence working Californians |
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(LA Daily News, 10/28/12)
Two years ago, when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was waging an unprecedented war against unions in that state, I denounced union busting at the Academy Awards during my acceptance speech for Best Cinematography.
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Obama Endorsed by Several Entertainment Unions |
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(THR, 10/23/12)
AFM and IATSE cite the president's support for working people; WGA West's PAC weighs in as well.
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