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Je
Suis Charlie
¡Feliz año nuevo!
César
Chávez Celebration XIII
/ Celebración
de César Chávez XIII
Tuesday
31 March 2015
/ Martes
31 de Marzo 2015
Circus
Circus Reno
—>BREAKING
NEWS, BULLETINS & ALMANAC
The
skeleton of the underbelly of the news
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-24-2015 Sparks Tribune
U-News
Exclusive: HAZMAT EMERGENCY
/ DECONTAMINATION AT WINNEMUCCA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL / UPDATE:
All schools closed Friday and Monday / NEW—>PHOTOS
FROM THE OBSCENE SCENE
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Student
Josh Turner gets hosed and loses his shoes
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Joe Turner photo —> More
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Blowing
out for Beantown: Defrocked Washoe
Super Pedro Martinez fingered as finalist for Boston school boss job.
That should jinx the Patriots for a repeat.
We
Don't Need No Education Archive
Parsing
our parsimonious public pursers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-17-2015 Sparks Tribune
Washoe
school boss addresses NAACP
We
don't need no stinking wages!
What
else is new? Southern Nevada CLC authorizes strike sanction vs. wage
violator.
The
flush of victory and the irony of deceit
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-10-2015 Sparks Tribune
Senate
Republicans take a jackhammer to the bedrock of Nevada trade unionism
The last bastion of local hire
comes under fire
By
Sean Whaley / Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-4-2015
Follytix,
Foxcatchers and corporate weasels
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-3-2015 Sparks Tribune
Machine
Gun Michele and cheap Ma Bell
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-27-2015 Sparks Tribune
The
South Rises Again. Does Ira
Hansen know about this?
3
states make MLK holiday a co-celebration honoring Confederate General
Robert E. Lee
Shaun King / Daily KOS 1-22-2015
Education
Dysfunction Part LIII—>
Gov.
Veto El Obtusè talks some trash
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-20-2015 Sparks Tribune
Poor
Denny's Almanac for Jan. 19: Lord
of War
Poor
Denny's Almanac for Jan. 18: Goose
and Gander
Poor
Denny's Almanac
for Jan. 17, 2015: Imperial
America
In memoriam
January
16, 1959, brought the births of Debra Joyce Donlevy/Carson High '77
(1959-1978) and Donna Leslie Cline (1959-1999). Their
youth was cut in twain on the same night in 1978 within the loneliness
of the High Desert Outback of the American Dream. Remember them fondly.
Longtime
LV Assemblymember Jerry Claborn dies
Northern
NV MLK Weekend events find new venue
Good
grief: Je suis Charlie Brown
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-13-2015 Sparks Tribune
Corporate
media: Thou shalt censor thyself
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-6-2015 Sparks Tribune
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(About damn time
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Breaking
Bad 4: Ira & his ammosexuals flip us the finger
Hansen
places his puppets in top slots but still controls the lower house.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-9-2014 Sparks Tribune /
Updated 12-11-2014
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BREAKING
BAD
Walter White and some other white guy
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...Who?
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Breaking
Bad 3: Ira, the guv and the dragonslayers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-2-2014 Sparks Tribune
Nevada
Lawmaker Ira Hansen Is Forced From Leadership Post Over Remarks on
Minorities
By KIMBERLEY McGEE and ADAM NAGOURNEY / The New York Times / 11-24-2014
Breaking
Bad Part Deux: Ira blames the Tribune
Barbwire
by Barbano / Submitted for publication 11-21-2014 / Expanded from
the 11-25-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune
IRA
ON TV-4: I'm
not a racist, I just play one on TV
BREAKING
BAD 11-23-2014 —> Hansen resigns as Nevada State Assembly
Speaker
Speaker-elect
Hansen bigot, racist, homophobe
BARBANO
DECRIES HANSEN ON STATEWIDE NEVADA NEWSMAKERS TV
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10
Elko / 11:30
a.m. PST Tuesday,
11-18-2014
Re-run
times and dates + view online
Host: Sam Shad
Guest: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal
Pundits:
Michael Hackett, Alrus Consulting
Jesse Gutierrez, charter school operator and former Executive Director,
Nevada Hispanic Services
Andrew
Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
Related
item:
Follytix
'15: From Topless Campaign to Breaking Bad
Barbwire
by Barbano / Sparks Tribune 11-18-2014
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BREAKING
BAD
Walter White and some other white guy
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...Who?
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The
documented racism and bigotry of incoming Nevada State Assembly Speaker
Ira Hansen
Barbwire by Barbano / Sparks Tribune /
11-18-2014
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hope you will do all you can to get the Republican Party to repudiate
this bigoted legislator. He is a disgrace to Nevada and a disgrace
to democracy. The onus here needs to be placed on the Republican
Party. Are they going to continue to harbor this man and treat
him as a responsible human being or expose him as the scoundrel
he really is? Can he continue in this position of responsibility
or should he be made to step down? Make them choose! — Julian
Bond, NAACP Chairman Emeritus, 11-20-2014 |
Reno-Sparks
NAACP calls on Assembly GOP Caucus to replace Hansen
11-20-2014
Reno
News & Review 11-20-2014: Republican
leader left a trail
SMOKING
GUNS: The Ira Hansen Files
HANDS OFF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Nationwide
demonstrations Friday Nov. 14
1:00-5:00 p.m. at Reno Main on Vassar Street
On
Friday, Nov. 14, the four labor unions of the U.S. Postal
Service are sponsoring a National Day of Action rally
at 125 locations across America. We encourage everyone who
enjoys using the post office in its current form to attend.
Northern Nevada contact: Paul
Maille (That's not a play on words. It's his real
name.) 775-846-6982.
Click here to find National
Day of Action locations nationwide. (It's a .pdf file
and takes time to load.)
Please consider signing
and sharing one of our petitions to save our post office.
This holiday season, we will be pushing hard once again
to get everyone we can to send us a letter or postcard to
SAVE OUR POST OFFICE, P.O. Box 5041, Terre Haute IN 47805.
We share these letters with Congress.
Thanks.
Your
USPS neighbors
Facebook.com/StopDelayingAmericasMail
www.StopMailDelays.org
EDITOR'S
NOTE: The strategy being employed by corporatists
in Congress is to degrade the service to a point that it
loses public support and can then be fully privatized. But
FedEx is not going to delivery Aunt Tillie's medicine in
Austin or your postcard to Cousin LeRoy in Paducah if they
don't live on profitable routes.
After WW2, GE
and GM bought up the cable cars of Los Angeles and degraded
the service until they could get politicians to blow up
the system. Result: People would have no choice but to buy
cars. There is now talk of bringing the trolleys back to
gridlocked LA — along the freeway routes which were
built on the cable car lines. (The technically groundbreaking
Robert Zemeckis-directed film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
was actually a historical satire of that real-life scenario.)
San Francisco and few other cities successfully resisted.
My Uncle John,
who was the Southern Pacific agent in Reno in the early
1950's, said the railroads did the same thing to what was
once legendary passenger service. They cut it back and made
the accommodations maddeningly poor so that there would
be little outcry when it was eliminated. They kept the passenger
revenue only without the all the food and sleeping car glamour
of old — and without all those union workers. How?
Ever wonder why
just about every Greyhound terminal in the U.S. was built
next to a railroad station? And they kept a lot of the small
freight and mail business in the belly of the busly beasts.
See you on the
picket line.
Be well. Raise
hell. Esté bien. Haga infierno.
ONSITE
IMPRESSIONS:
More
than 100 showed up to the picketing, as did the Reno
Gazette-Journal
and all major network-affiliated TV news departments, English
and Spanish. The postal service made a profit of $600,000,000
last year, but incurred a $5 billion
on-paper loss due to the 2006 Republican congressional
mandate that USPS pay for health care for as-yet unborn
retirees 75 years before they are birthed, conceived or
even a twinkly in their parents' eyeballs. (Don't you wish
you could get your health insurance paid just by thinking
about it?)
There's
a strong right-wing minority lobby for the rights of the
unborn, but might this not be a trifle excessive? The media
largely ignore the 75-year absurdity to focus strictly on
the annual accounting bottom line red ink.
WHAT'S
NEXT? Greyhound, FedEx wants to meet for lunch
to learn more about how you do it.
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FROM THE PAST —> FED UP AT
THE FEDERAL BUILDING (9-27-2011) —> More than
200 postal workers and members of other unions demonstrated at
the Bruce Thompson Federal Building in Reno in favor of passage
of HR 1351, which would remove the funding drain now threatening
the United States Postal Service. The federal courthouse may be
seen in the window reflections of the auto in the foreground.
Another
rally was held in Reno on 24 march 2013. (NevadaLabor.com
photo) |
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Voting,
gloating, loathing and scapegoating
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-11-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune
Get
Outta Dodge, Part Deux
ToljaSo
Dept.—> Evil twin school bosses Martinez and Morrison axed
in the same week. Read the latest dispatches about The Music Man scoring
tar and feathers in North Carolina
Tar Heel country, then remember
how Heath Morrison and Pedro Martinez created a similar climate of
fear in Nevada.
Bully
boys run out on a rail
Take special note of the Barbwires of 5-13 and 5-20-2012
At
Last: Journalist Dennis Myers deconstructs the day that Reno-Sparks-Washoe
school boss Pedro Martinez melted down
Nevada
attorney general succumbs to Reno paper's reprehensible rabble-rousing
MUST
SEE: Myers interview on 11-11-2014 Nevada Newsmakers with Sam Shad.
Click here for re-runs and webstreaming.
Virginia
City's next scary sexy Hollywood movie
Virginia
City 911: Sexy Sheriffing in Old ConforteLand
Barbwire
by Barbano / Special Nevada Day Edition 10-31-2014, Updated 11-1 and
11-3-2014
Follytix
'14: Year of the Topless Campaign
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-28-2014 Sparks Tribune
Barbwire:
Nevada not really
a state
No,
we were not Battle Born in Kenya
Top
10 reasons Nevada lives in the 19th Century
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
10-17-2013 Sparks Tribune
Words
from God on Nevada ballots and Ebola
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-21-2014 Sparks Tribune
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"I
heard a bit of good news today. We shall pass this way but
once."
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And
the moonhowlers criticized Vice-President Joseph Biden for
visiting
Gomorrah South to press for an increase in the minimum
wage. Need any more reason to vote?
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'Toon
by George
Price from the 14 April 1973 edition of The New Yorker. Sent
by a reader.
Copyright © The New Yorker 1973
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Cheap
thrills: Sex banned in Gomorrah South
How
to intimidate Nevadans from registering to vote — by a Democrat,
no less
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 10-14-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part L—>
True
confessions from the back of the bus
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-7-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part XLIX—>
We
don't need no education: Leaks R Us
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-30-2014 Sparks Tribune
LA
Times 9-28-14: Nevada overstating economic benefits of Tesla factory
Federal
judge refuses to stop Nevada fracking
By
Scott Sonner / Associated Press 9-27-2014
–>9/23
Teamsters OK new contract with Reno-Sparks-Washoe
transit system
–>9/23 Washoe School Superintendent Pedro Martinez out as Barbwire
alone predicted
last week
FIRE
METERS FUEL A LONG, HOT SUMMER
As with the bright, shining lies of the Washoe
and Clark County School Districts' graduation rates, the Reno
Gazette-Journal
is again two years behind the Barbwire
(11 October 2012) regarding NVEnergy's combustible "smart meters."
It ain't news unless the legit media find it first, right?
The
latest shrift & shred on Tesla fever
Taxpayers
taken for Teslacide demo ride
Elon
Musk: Pseudo-green plantation overlord and union buster
Can
megaresorts scam Tesla-style freebies?
EXTRA—>READ
ALL ABOUT IT: Barbwire scoops Reno Gazette-Journal by 2 years on flammable
NVEnergy fire meters
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-23-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part XLVIII—>
St.
Elon, Lord Pedro and Gov. Veto El Obtúsè
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-16-2014 Sparks Tribune
9-23
CRYSTAL BALL UPDATE: The above column accurately predicted Supt. Martinez's
departure one week in advance
Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes
Tesla
and the hospital thieves:
Theft of Washoe Med/Renown provides cautionary tale
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-9-2014 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 19 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" is now approaching its 50th installment
and thus merits its
own section inside. Say hi to Don Quixote.
Current
Barbwires plus more than 20 years of columaniacal 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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Top
Gun mechanics at NAS Fallon vote to strike
Teamsters
reach new tentative agreement with Washoe mass transit contractor
U-News
/ 9-5-2014
Door-to-door
salesmen and stoner stores
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 9-4-2014
Happy
Labor Day
On
Sept. 1, 1907, labor leader Walter Reuther, named
by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of
the 20th century, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. (More
Labor Day Poor Denny's Almanac)
Labor
Day 2014: Red, white and screwed
Silver State Lining: Nevada union membership
10th-highest in the nation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-28-2014
Be
well. Raise hell.
Southern
Nevada rally for good jobs at Boulder Station Aug. 29
UPDATED
22 AUGUST 2014 01:07 a.m. PDT, 08:07
ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT —>
On this date in
1966, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, now the United Farm
Workers of America (UFW), was formed from a merger of the National Farm
Workers Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
and became a powerful tool for the advancement of Latinos under the
leadership of César Chávez
and Dolores Huerta. (Courtesy
Dennis Myers'
daily Poor Denny's Almanac
© 2014)
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| OCTOBER,
1969 — César Chávez, right, and Walter Reuther,
center, at the dedication of the United Farm Workers' new headquarters
in Delano, Calif. The buildings were dedicated to Reuther's late
younger brother, Roy. The Reuther-led United Auto Workers were instrumental
in acquiring the land and funding for the "The 40 Acres,"
as the site was known. The man at left was on a picket line for
five years and may or may not be a Chávez relative. Anyone
who can identify him, please contact
me. A character resembling him appeared in many scenes of the
2014 major motion picture César Chávez. (Photo
courtesy of George Nelson, UAW Local 2162 Retirees.) |
Sexy
scandals, whitewashes & black towers
Media overlook federal
sex/race/ethnicity investigation into Washoe County School District
Meanwhile,
big money is spent strictly on abstinence
State panel to review militarization of police departments
In Nevada visit, new Veterans Administration boss
proves all jobs require training
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the Sparks Tribune / 8-21-2014
Nevada's
advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights:
Police militarization barrier
to community relations
HANDS
UP! Moment of Silence for slain Mo.
teen Aug. 14, Reno & Carson City
Education
Dysfunction Part XLV—>
Bringing
serious heat well into the night
Nevadans host moment of silence for Missouri police shooting
victim Michael Brown
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-14-2014
TEAMSTERS
VOTE DOWN CONTRACT WITH RTC WASHOE TRANSIT OPERATOR
Education
Dysfunction Part XLIV—>
Pots
and Kettles: Can't we all get along?
BREAKING
NEWS—> WCSD Board of Trustees Vice-President
Dave Aiazzi has announced that he has been diagnosed with leukemia and
will be resigning by the end of September. Remember him with healing
thoughts and prayers.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-7-2014
College
President: Race an issue in l'affaire Martinez
RENO (4 Aug. 2014) — On today's Nevada Newsmakers
program on KRNV TV-4/Reno and KENV TV-10/Elko, Truckee Meadows
Community College President Maria Sheehan stated "I
cannot tell you that race is not a factor" with respect
to the suspension of Washoe County School Superintendent
Pedro Martinez.
Her statement came
in response to a question from host Sam Shad. The Reno-Sparks
NAACP is preparing a response and has asked for a statement
from Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The full interview,
which comes in the first segment of the program, will be available
by about 6:00 p.m. PDT at NevadaNewsmakers.com/
It may also be viewed this evening at 9:30 on Charter Cable
Channel 190 and 24/7 via Charter Cable On Demand. Click
here for the full
statewide re-run schedule.
The Barbwire of July
31(below) first decried the bogus injection of race into an
already tense situation.
Stay tuned.
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Education
Dysfunction Part XLIII—>
Playing
the race card for profit and peril
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-31-2014
Education
Dysfunction Part XLII—>
We
don't need no education or Pedro, either
Reno-Sparks-Washoe
school boss fired and unfired
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-24-2014 / UPDATED
From
longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac: On July 30, 1965, after
defeating the bitter opposition of the American Medical Association
in one of the monumental legislative battles of the 20th century,
Medicare was created by Congress.
8-1-2014
— A tentative agreement has been reached with the operators of
the Reno-Sparks-Washoe transit system and Teamsters
Local 533. Members will take a ratification vote August 10.
How
to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid
Health
Savings Accounts: The insurance industry's Trojan Horse
Andrew
Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal / 7-19-2014
Last
chance to endorse Don Dondero
for NPA Hall of Fame
Send it in NOW or forever
hold your peace
Migrant
laborers: Your folks and refugee kids
What
do broke Baby Boomers and Central American refugee children have in
common?
The future of the U.S. workforce.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
ADMISSION
FREE
Nevadans
premiere live concert and film at Artown
A
cold shower for the NY Times Tesla gusher
40
years in the wilderness: Study says Silver State on downhill slide since
1970
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the
7-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Ask
Hobby Lobby to take in refugee kids
So
five uptight old Catholic guys in grim reaper robes don't like contraception.
Wonder if they thought that way back in college?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
Sign
Rep. Barbara Lee's petition against a 3rd US-Iraq War
Barbara
Lee: The latter-day Jeannette
Rankin
More
about Congressmember Lee
Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation
Sen.
Dean Heller attempts to stage an illegal political rally at federally-subsidized
housing complex
Teamsters
contract with Washoe transit system expires Monday, extension possible
JUNE 30 UPDATE:
Current contract extended through July 31, 2014.
6-29-2014
Update: Strike authorization passed overwhelmingly.
7-31-2014: A tentative agreement has been reached.
Local 533 members will take a ratification vote on August 10.
Labor
Losses:
Former Teamsters Local 533 Secretary-Treasurer/CEO
Louis E. Martino, Jr., 67
NEWLY
UPDATED: Martino graveside memorial service June 24/Mountain View/NW
Reno
Twila "LaDawn" Kulhanek Tutrow, Painters & Allied Trades
Local 567, 52
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers show
Tesla
plants PR slants to get into the public's pants
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-19-2014 Sparks Tribune
Politics
is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly
concern them.
—
Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871-1945)
Nevada's
righteous ayatollahs arise once again
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-5-2014 Sparks Tribune
Reno
Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay
Longtime
CWA member Bill Birkman dies
When
your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-29-2014 Sparks Tribune
Keep
chipping. Pretty soon, you've got a sculpture—>and lots of arrowheads!
LV
unions get deals with all 9 holdout hotels
Golden
Gate caves. No strike.
GG was most recent Gomorrah South property
struck (2002)
MESSAGE
FROM THE MAHATMA
about America's latest carnage
Souls
to the polls—> early voting
Barbara
Bennett, Erik Holland & Václav Havel
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-22-2014 Sparks Tribune
Stabbing
rock-sucking kangaroos on the Ides of May
Reno
Gazette-Journal blatantly manipulates mayoral contest
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-15-2014 Sparks Tribune
Negative
Optimism:
Making the best of being worst
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
massacre at Kent State 5-4-1970
Nevada
State AFL-CIO conventioners join anti-education tax initiative business
coalition
Steve
Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-2-2014
Mayday!
Taxes smolder while citizens
do slow burn
May
Day in Reno, D-Day for teachers' union tax petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded & Updated from the
5-1-2014 Sparks Tribune
Revolution,
evolution, devolution & truth dilution
Also:
Labor leader Joe Assalone dies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-24-2014 Sparks Tribune
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
Equal Rights Amendment will return to 2015 Nevada Legislature
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
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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
Bob
McGowan, Miss America and César Chávez
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by Barbano / Expanded from the
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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.)
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