Gracie Gato: Fighting words won't make a better world, but civility can

THE WORLD right now is noisy with division. It can feel like we’ve been trained to choose sides in every argument, left or right, red or blue, us or them.

UnionLeader.com

#WSJ reporter in #HongKong claims #Murdoch owned media outlet fired her for #winning role as an elected #UnionLeader in June after #Beijing criticized #union and #PressFreedom. #NewsCorp owned #DowJones claims routine #ReOrg and editorial focus shift to #Singapore necessary in current biz climate.

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Wall St. Journal Reporter Says She Was Fired Over Hong Kong Union Role

The journalist accused her former employer of failing to stand up for press freedom, a claim that the newspaper rejected.

The New York Times

"It's an honor to be the first Teamster of our 121-year history to address The #RepublicanNationalConvention said #Teamsters #Prez Sean O'Brien, who has received sharp criticism for giving a 17 minute address onstage during opening night of the RNC Trump Vance coronation event in #Milwaukee..The oft combative #unionleader who narrowly avoided a #CapitolHll fist fight with a #GOP rep last yr stopped short of #endorsing Trump but said he "The American people aren't stupid, they know the system is broken. ...Working people have no chance of winning this fight. That's why I'm here today, because I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did," O'Brien railed against "The Elites" after he kissed the rings of the leadership of the political party proposing more tax cuts for the billionaire class as well as pledges to decimate so called #Socialist programs like publicly funded #Education and #HealthCare

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WATCH: Teamsters President Sean O'Brien speaks at Republican National Convention | 2024 RNC Night 1

YouTube

Influential #conservative publisher rips 'dangerous' #Trump

"He has no business being president of the #UnitedStates," said #JoeMcQuaid — the publisher of #Manchester, #NewHampshire's #UnionLeader newspaper.

"He’s a dangerous man and he has a lot of #sycophants, and he has a party which looks at the world today in the political landscape and has determined that they must say nice things about him or they’re not going to get elected."

#UnfitToBePresident

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dangerous-2667013252/

'No business being president': Influential conservative publisher rips 'dangerous' Trump

Joe McQuaid — the publisher of Manchester, New Hampshire's Union Leader newspaper — is seen as one of the most influential conservatives in the Granite State. And it's a near certainty that former President Donald Trump will not win its coveted endorsement.In a recent interview with Politico, McQuai...

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Shock Poll Shows Independent Nebraska Union Leader Beating Republican Senator

With Senate control hanging in the balance, Nebraska Democrats are considering backing Dan Osborn in his challenge against Sen. Deb Fischer.

The Intercept

.> Gandhi's name has been associated with this quote since at least 1982, when the Workshop Of Nonviolence Institute summed up Gandhi's philosophy in an issue of WIN Magazine:..> Gandhi once observed that every movement goes through four stages: First they ignore you; then they abuse you; then they crack down on you and then you win..> The misattributed quote, then, is most likely a combination of Klein's 1914 speech combined with an attempt to summarize Gandhi's nonviolent doctrine and philosophy. - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/first-they-ignore-you/.> a speech by union leader Nicholas Klein in 1914 provides a closer version of the misattributed quote:..> And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. #Gandhi #NicholasKlein #LaborUnion #ClothingWorkers #UnionLeader
#FourStagesOfTruth #FourStagesOfProgressInEthics #FourStagesOfChangesInValues
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'First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You' Quote Isn't Gandhi's

A quote misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi started recirculating after it was tweeted by presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Snopes
Cesar Chavez - Wikipedia

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So, maybe i shall that i am also a #UnionLeader locally and provincially (BC, Canada). I have learned that Education is not Apolitical (thank you Dr V. Andreotti/UBC). As such, the work we've done is to create safe spaces for #IndigenousTeachers. I balance between yelling into the abyss [of an anti-Indigenous world] and adding important edits to policy.

#IndigenousAndUnionStrong #SocialJusticeAndIndigenousIntersect

#MickLynch DISMANTLES the Media, #KeirStarmer & EXTREME #RightWing Government Coming Our Way

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#UK #UKShitShow

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