Labor and Unions

Nashville Peace & Justice E-Blast May 3
The Nashville Peace & Justice Center regularly shares a listing of area peace-progressive events. We share it here, and the group encourages people to share the information widely. Please attend and support the events -- do your part to help us all turn…

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Can the US Be Saved? Stream of Consciousness After Seeing ‘Where to Invade Next’
Want to make America great again? The answer lies not with Drumpf, not with Clinton’s status quo, but with what you’ll learn in Michael Moore’s latest award-winning documentary. Lesson One: Love your neighbor. Lesson Two: If you think the land of guns, greed,…

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Charge Trump, #FightFor15: Activism for Thursday
For April 14, Progressive Nashville shares two ways to make a difference: Add your voice to the call to charge Donald “Short Fingered Vulgarian” Trump for inciting violence and stand with #FightFor15 activists demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage.

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The Daily Bern: Sanders Staff Nashville Visit Empowers Volunteers
I am still on a high following last night's Nashville stop of the Bernie Sanders campaign's Tennessee State Volunteer Tour. Nearly 300 people from across the Metro area were on hand at the United Auto Workers Hall to meet with Bernie 2016 staffers…

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The Daily Bern: National Organizers Visit, Allow Debates Rally
The great man is not making a Music City stop just yet, but his national campaign organizers make an appearance in Nashville Thursday, Oct. 22. And the following day, supporters will converge at a Democratic National Committee Nashville event. Tennessee 4 Bernie announced this weekend…

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Peace Coalition Meets, Southern Books Festival in Progressive Nashville
Mercury is in retrograde, which may explain why everything is scattered and black right now.  (A painful back injury has left me prone and miserable of late.) Happily, that depressing period should be coming to an end Oct. 9. That means perhaps there…

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Nashville Progressives Celebrate Workers at Labor Day Festival
  On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Workers’ Dignity, and Middle Tennessee Jobs With Justice staged the Nashville Labor Day Parade, followed by the annual Workers’ Dignity fundraising festival at St. Edward Church on Thompson Lane. The third annual…

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Election Runoff, Organizer Networking in Progressive Nashville
Between shooting for Nashville and newly driving for Uber (gotta buy groceries!), had almost no time last week; apologies. Hoping this week will be less stressful and more forgiving. We'll see. In the meantime, here's what's happening through Thursday in Music City, and…

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