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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Teamsters skips endorsement in presidential race for first time since 1996
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    “Neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement.

    He added, “We sought commitments from both [former president Donald] Trump and [Vice President Kamala] Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries—and to honor our members’ right to strike—but were unable to secure those pledges.”

    The Teamsters, which represents truck drivers, freight workers and others, held similar meetings with Trump and President Joe Biden when he was still seeking re-election.

    On Wednesday, the union released the results of their survey, which was conducted after Biden dropped out of the race. It found that almost 60% of rank-and-file union members preferred to endorse Trump, while 34% backed Harris, according to an electronic member poll. A phone poll indicated similar margins, with 58% supporting Trump and 31% supporting Harris.

    “While the Teamsters Executive Board is making no formal endorsement, the hardworking members of the Teamsters have been loud and clear— they want President Trump back in the White House!” said campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt in a statement. “These hardworking men and women are the backbone of America and President Trump will strongly stand up for them when he’s back in the White House.”[1]

    1. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/teamsters-union-declines-endorse-presidential-election-breaking-decade-rcna171711 ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPtoQuotes@lemmy.ca•Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
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    2 days ago

    After.

    And we (the U.S.) continue to attempt and fund many more coups against foreign nations to this day.

    History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. – Sydney J. Harris[1]

    About Sydney J. Harris:

    Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal”, was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. He also wrote an aperiodic feature called “Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things.”

    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. | speech at the White House, 13 March 1962[2]

    Bay of Pigs invasion, (April 17, 1961), abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Girón (Girón Beach) to Cubans, on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government.

    Within six months of Castro’s overthrow of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba (January 1959), relations between Castro’s government and the United States began to deteriorate. The new Cuban government confiscated private property (much of it owned by North American interests), sent agents to initiate revolutions in several Latin American countries, and established diplomatic and economic ties with leading socialist powers. Castro himself often and vociferously accused the United States of trying to undermine his government. Several U.S. congressmen and senators, from early 1960, denounced Castro; and by June the Congress had passed legislation enabling President Dwight D. Eisenhower to take retaliatory steps: the United States cut off sugar purchases from Cuba and soon thereafter placed an embargo on all exports to Cuba except food and medicine. In January 1961, Eisenhower, in one of the final acts of his administration, broke diplomatic ties with Cuba.[3]

    1. [1] Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | https://archive.org/details/clearingground00harr_0 ↩︎

    2. [2] Quote number 11 | https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00006245 ↩︎

    3. [3] https://www.britannica.com/event/Bay-of-Pigs-invasion ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West vow to appeal Georgia election disqualification
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    7 days ago

    De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    De la Cruz and West – both of whom submitted more than the required 7,500 signatures to gain ballot access – have said they are prepared to take the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.

    The Georgia Democratic Party didn’t let up, making moves to appeal the secretary of state’s order.

    De la Cruz’s running mate, Karina Garcia, slammed the Democrats for trying to strip third-party ballot access: “Unable to defend their pro-corporate and pro-war record, the Democratic Party’s desperate plan is to twist the law to remove any alternatives from the ballot to cement the system of two-party rule. Working people are in crises, and neither party has any real answers.”

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