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On
April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing
to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
BREAKING
NEWS AND THEN SOME—>
Black
Panther Party Founding Member Bobby Seale speaks at UNR
April 22: Power to the people—>Admission is FREE
Making
the best of an inbred situation
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
College
athletes need unions, pay
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded
from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
Marching
for equal rights and equal pay on tax day
Banqueters
cry: Hail, César
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
Obamacare Bitcoin online vote exchange
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Strike
Chess: LV Culinary and Bartenders unions plan picketing
Las
Vegas Review-Journal / 4-8-2014
In
search of the modern day Barbara Bennett
Barbwire
by Barbano / Substantially expanded from the
4-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
Assemblymember
Lucy Flores, Chávez
alumna Maria Zamora &
Sen. Joe Neal headline César
Chávez Day
2014
NEW!
1960s Northern
Nevada Chávez
work disclosed
César
Chávez
Celebration XII
Monday
31 March 2014
Doors
open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Celebración
de
César Chávez XII
Lunes 31 de Marzo 2014
Las puertas se abren a las 5:30 p.m., la cena a las 7:00 p.m.
Circus
Circus—Reno
Order
César Chávez Day tickets, tables & sponsorships
Bob
McGowan, Miss America and César Chávez
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
When
César
Chávez came
to Reno
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Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A. building
named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
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Hiding
in Plain Sight
—>
The Barbwire Education Scandals go mainstream two years
later
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 3-27-2014
We
Don't Need No Education Archives
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVIII
The politics of media ga-ga
boosterism
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-20-2014 Sparks Tribune
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVII
Follytix
'14: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
BREAKING
NEWS: State illegally uses tax money vs. teacher tax vote
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-13-2014 Sparks Tribune
BETTER
LATE THAN NEVER: Largest Nevada newspaper confirms
Barbwire investigative series about Clark and Washoe County school districts'
phony graduation rates. CLICK
HERE FOR THE AWFUL TRUTH UNO MAS.
Campaign
2014: An expensive comedy act
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-6-2014 Sparks Tribune
WE
LOVE LUCY! As political junkies and others of questionable
character (which describes most of my fans) learned before the rest of
the great unwashed in the Barbwire
of Feb. 20, Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will
declare her candidacy for Nevada lieutenant governor at 2:00 p.m. PST
Saturday, March 1, at the College of Southern Nevada Cheyenne Campus.
Does the date imply Lucy is coming in like a lion? Well, she is
woman, hear her roar. She will address Washoe Democrats on Tuesday evening,
March 4, at DemoHQ, 1465 Terminal Way in Reno. Be well. Raise hell. Esté
bien. Haga infierno.
Shirl
Elliker: Nevada loses an honorable man
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
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on the Barbwire plots new TV season
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above to support community TV & see all the news you never knew
you needed to know 'til now
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVI —>
Education:
The cure spawns an even worse disease
ALSO:
Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will declare for lieutenant
governor in early March
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-20-2014 Sparks Tribune
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Navigating
the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com
WHEN
ALL ELSE FAILS DEPT.—> I recently got my first criticism
in 18 years that this site is a bit confusing to navigate. I take
that as a compliment. Confusing people is one of my few talents.
I thought I had anticipated any such problems
years ago by liberally sprinkling links to the front page site
map. (These days, am I supposed to say that I sprinkled progressively
rather than liberally?)
The front page of NevadaLabor.com acts
as a chronological listing of recent workplace news with the latest
at the top. I archive annually to create a continuous permanent
record fully accessible via the site map or
any garden-variety websearch.
"We Don't
Need No Education" has now passed its 25th installment
and thus merits its
own section inside. Say hi to Don Quixote.
Current
Barbwires plus more than 20 years of columniacal archives,
the Statewide News Roundup
and Breaking News/Bull'tins/Almanac
are all available via the site map—>as
well as the usual general or specific ongoing madness and historical
inflammation. (Once something's posted here or to any of my other
sites, it's up forever.)
While the front page is chronological,
the Statewide News Roundup
is categorical, e.g., construction, hospitality, legislation,
health care and many others. Breaking
News/Bull'tins/Almanac often publishes original U-News as
well as links to items at other sites that are not hot enough
for the front page chronology. The NevadaLabor.com
search engine acts as a short-cut to everything, depending
on what you seek. So simply seek and ye shall find.
As my old friend Wise John the Lake
Havasu Cropduster Pilot often says, "when all else
fails, read the instructions." So when all else fails,
re-read the above, then go to the nearest site
map link and/or "search."
The NevadaLabor.com search engine is really amazing. It's also
union-signatory and thus quite efficient.
Thanks for your inputs and support over
lo, these many years. Keep up the good work and the good fight.
Esté bien. Haga infierno. / Be
well. Raise hell.
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Fold
your favorite charity, then go thank yourself
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-13-2014 Sparks Tribune
College
values twisted: Unionize college athletes
Prof. Jake Highton /
Expanded from the
2-6-2014 Sparks Tribune
Lying
means never having to say you're sorry
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
2-6-2014 Sparks Tribune
We
Don't Need No Education: Time to give up?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
1-30-2014 Sparks Tribune
Barbano
and Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
Click
above for lineup, re-run times and dates
Justice:
Just another word for nothing left to lose
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
1-23-2014 Sparks Tribune
NEW—>
PHOTO OF VIVIAN FREEMAN ADIÓS
Where’s
the modern-day Joe Neal for governor, Democrats?
Steve Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal 1-17-2014
All
the news you wish you didn't need to know
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
1-16-2014 Sparks Tribune
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV-radio-web program
2:00
p.m. Jan. 18 memorial set for former Nevada Assemblymember and hospital
trustee Vivian Freeman
Former
Nevada Assemblyman Bernie Anderson dies
UPDATE:
Funeral 10:00 a.m. PST Saturday 1-18-2014
@ Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sparks for longtime educator
and Judiciary Committee Chairman
San
Francisco Chronicle / Associated Press 1-10-2014
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Can
Amazon drones deliver healthy cigarettes?
Lotsa
laughs, César Chávez Celebration XII, Jello Biafra, 3
obits, the campaign to elect Don Dondero to the Nevada Press Assn. Hall
of Fame + Barbwire.TV. What's not to
like?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
1-9-2014 Sparks Tribune
Solar-powered
insurance drones from hell
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
1-2-2014 Sparks Tribune
HAPPY
NEW YEAR/Little
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Feliz
Año Nuevo
Warring
tribes battle the great black whale
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
12-26-2013 Sparks Tribune
Hope
you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days!
MerryChristmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting
RENO,
Nev. (12-5-2013) — Former Nevada Assemblymember and Washoe Medical
Center Trustee Vivian Freeman died at her Reno home. She was 86.
CELEBRATION OF LIFE SATURDAY
JAN. 18—> NEW: PHOTO OF EVENT
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1927-2013
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2013:
Unlucky number for an ugly year
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
12-19-2013 Sparks Tribune
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May you and yours enjoy a peaceful and prosperous time
Bestest
of the grotesquest for 2013
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-27-2012 Daily Sparks Tribune
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High Holly Days
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Massive
flood danger: how this sorry state got to this sorry state—>
Follytix
as watersport: Reno-Sparks-Washoe governments blew millions, learned
nothing and did even less after the killer floods of 1986, 1997 and
2005
