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The future does not exist
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-28-2008

Stalking the perfect storm
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-21-2008

Shut up and work
Nevada workers besieged as usual
Charter Communications bankruptcy predicted

Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-14-2008

Chainsaw massacre in Carson City
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-7-2008

CWA WINS 4-1 AT ST. MARY'S-RENO
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Tony the Tiger and the flaky NFL
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-30-2008

Not even 30 pieces of silver
Reno City Council Signs Community TV Death Warrant

Contact Sen. Harry Reid for help
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-23-2008

Rise of the Machines
Rise in protest to save community television

Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 11-16-2008

So sue us: Charter tells Sen. Reid and Reno
11-14-2008

SPECIAL BULLETIN: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will be Sam Shad's guest on the statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/Radio/Webcast show on Monday, Nov. 17. Cox cable (Clark County/Las Vegas) lobbyist Steve Schorr will sit on Sam's pundit panels on Nov. 18-19.
Click here for the complete broadcast schedule
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The devil and the deep blue sea
Charter cable deal and Reno "settlement" offers are all death warrants for community television. Court battle looms closer.

Sparks Tribune / 11-11-2008 + Barbwire special web edition, 11-12-2008

Back to work
Reno City Council reviews defective, deflective Charter cable settlement as FCC investigation opens + The Cycles of History revolve again
Update 11-11-2008: Ratepayers group may sue City of Reno as well as Charter
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune / 11-9-2008

A PROUD LABOR MAN ADDRESSES NEVADA LABORSen. Joe Biden, D-Del., addresses the Nevada State AFL-CIO convention at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno on August 21, 2007.

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216
2:00-4:00 p.m. PST, 22:00-24:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT
What may well be the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

Margins of error
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune 11-2-2008

Union caravans blitz Sparks-Reno-Washoe
Actor Kal Penn rallies participants

Nevada labor leader Douglas Matejovsky dies

Drag queens for change
Nugget makes workers an offer they can't refuse
Charter cable on the financial skids as AT&T enters market
Shoddy Sequoia voting machines play into Karl Rove's hands
Expanded from the 10-12-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

The good, the bad and the ugly
Illegal voting machines and killer vaccines
Michigan judge's ruling will affect Nevada cable ratepayers

Expanded from the 10-5-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune
Updated 10-7 and 10-8-2008

Paul Newman: Driven Star
New Michael Moore film premieres on SNCAT this week
Slow progress on saving community radio-TV stations

Expanded from the 9-28-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Chamber of earthly delights
Expanded from the 9-21-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

The south has risen again
Racism means never having to say you're sorry

Expanded from the 9-14-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Nurses win contract with St. Mary's Reno
Washoe Med/Renown nurses also get new deal

Latest statewide labor news roundup

OCTOBER SURPRISE:
Bombing Iran for fun and prophet

Bush plans to attack soon, major media ignore credible reports
Barbwire 9-7-2008

Sen. Obama, meet Mr. Durocher
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-31-2008

A nice Labor Day story
The labor films former actor and union president Ronald Reagan didn't want you to ever see

Teamsters resume talks with Washoe County bus system
Phone callers to Barbwire.TV warn that a strike remains imminent

Charter negotiates Russian-style:
Will accept 100% of everything

Daily Sparks Tribune 9-5-2008 / Barbwire Update 9-7-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP opposes Charter channel switch

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ready to join legal action against Charter Cable

Fight Back!
Save Community TV

SPARKS, WASHOE, CARSON AND DOUGLAS CABLE CUSTOMERS URGED TO CONTACT LOCAL OFFICIALS
ReSurge.TV may broaden legal action to include ratepayers and program producers outside of Reno
8-25-2008, Updated 8-28-2008

WE WIN ROUND ONE — As the Barbwire show scooped the state on Friday, Aug. 22: Charter has caved in and postponed the execution date for 90 days. Thanks for bringing the heat.
Donate to the cable ratepayer legal defense fund

The evil empire eats its appetite
Community television wins a 90-day stay of execution
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-24-2008

Reno city council votes unanimously to sue Charter to keep community TV accessible
Resurge.TV will also file

The people were heard on Aug. 14. Call, write or show up at Reno City Hall at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20

Bandwidth bandidos admit to their greed
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-17-2008

The people vs. Charter's pirate ship
Time to sue the bastards

Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-10-2008

Charter cable attempts to kill community TV
Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Bad news for cable subscribers, good news for Hug High School
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-3-2008
Donate to the cable ratepayer legal defense fund

Barbano on KTVN TV-2's Face the State

Skinny dipping with the devil
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 7-20-2008
UPDATE: Angle spurns offer to debate Raggio on Nevada Newsmakers
Barbwire calls her bluff 8-7-2008
UPDATE: Just as Angle weenied out on Shad, Raggio hotdogs the Barbwire

$4.8 billion Echelon Resort construction project shuttered until at least 2011; 800 LV workers lose their jobs.

Barbwire.TV gets first interview with University Regent Howard Rosenberg after ban from ballot
Nevada Supreme Court upholds term limits,
boots Rosenberg and Woodbury

Vote for Rosenberg anyway, dammit
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 7-27-2008

Tahoe Shakespeare Festival musicians haven't been paid after termination
Non-union rats imported from New York City.

UPDATE: Settlement in the offing, union and management differ on who did what, with which and to whom (surprise, surprise)

History and serendipity
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 6-1-2008

Tale of the greasy goose
The neverending story of the rigged game at the gas pump
Barbwire Sparks Tribune 5-25
-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP asks that Regional Transportation Commission finally honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday
Talks stalled, federal mediator called in, contract expires June 12
Negotiatons resume June 7 — Foreign-owned managers offer a pay cut disguised as a one percent per year raise

Check the snowfall report for hell!
Save Mart Supermarkets recommends that its workers unionize

Barbano trashes casino corporate welfare on Nevada Newsmakers statewide TV/podcast/webcast

Petition oblivion and snow in hell
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-18
-2008

Read My Lips Roulette
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-11-2008

Las Vegas Musicians Union leader Thom Pastor seriously injured by drunk driver

The 38th anniversary of Kent State

List, lust and political roulette
Barbwire/Sparks Tribune 5-4-2008

Labor Day everywhere but the U.S.
Workers Memorial Day
Déjà vu all over again

Washoe Med: Renown for Ripping Us Off
Inhospitable Reno hospital terrorizes its nurses for daring to picket for an hour. So take it to the streets!
Barbwire Special Web Edition 4-10-2008
Updated 4-11-2008

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN — Washoe Med nurses picket during a one-day strike on 6-23-2001. The issues were the same as during a 1990 organizing drive and remain today: Understaffing which erodes patient care so that the conglomerate may profit and proliferate on the backs of health care consumers and taxpayers.

Who's on Worst?
Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize
Barbwire 4-6-2008

This day in history: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King., Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968
Three days of commemorating King in Reno, April 4-6, 2008
Remembering King by forgetting him

Reno Chávez event plays to overflow crowd

Reno, Sparks and Washoe County declare
March 31, 2008, as César Chávez Day

THE WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered photo from 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.

(Photo courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers' Union Local 169.)

More stories and photos from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit.

César Chávez: This day in history

César Chávez Day brings labor and management together in Reno
Annual event at Circus Circus March 31 will also bring together César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
U-News 3-27-2008

GIANTS 3: The beast awakens and comes full circle
Barbwire 3-30-2008

Week of the Giants Begins
United Auto Workers demonstrate while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and César Chávez offer advice

3-23
-2008

Giants will walk among us again
Barbwire 3-16
-2008

Annual César Chávez Celebration
Circus Circus Reno — March 31, 2008

UAW and other unions protest unfair trade
at Reno General Motors warehouse

Reno Gazette-Journal 3-29-2008
Sign the petition online

Painters Union pickets Scheels store at Sparks Marina Legends development

New Paycheck Deception Initiatives Filed

Communications workers picket Reno subcontractor

Republican immigration plank plunked into Democratic platform
Employer and employee sanctions spark opposition

STRIKE LOOMS CLOSER — Culinary Union pushes for injunction against Reno Grand Sierra

The Dean's List

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

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The tale of our gorgeous graphics

In 2002, we were honored to produce the Centennial Book for the 100th anniversary of the founding of northern Nevada Painters and Allied Trades Local 567/AFL-CIO. Working on a short time frame, we cast a nationwide net for appropriate cover art and succeeded beyond our wildest dreams thanks to muralists Kathleen Scarboro and Kathleen Farrell. The above illustration ("Papering the World: Joliet's Wallpaper Industry") appeared on the cover and interior of Local 567's Centennial Book, copies of which have been submitted to Nevada libraries and historical organizations. The mural, painted on a wall in Joliet, Illinois, depicts Painters Union members manufacturing wallpaper the old fashioned way, long about the time of Local 567's founding. Ms. Farrell is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, an affiliate of the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades/AFL-CIO. Ms. Scarboro is a member of the Maison des Artists in Paris, the association which represents artists in France.

Ms. Farrell executes murals, mosaics and figurative sculptures for the labor movement. Her work and that of others may be viewed at the Friends of Community Public Art web site. "We have added new table top size sculptures for sale as well as additions of our life size sculptures," she says. "A number of the sculptures feature union members including the Baseball Player (The Catch) and The Firefighter. I have also finished the rad workers sculpture I mentioned awhile back. I welcome work from unions that would like to buy the existing sculptures or hire me to create awards, tabletop size sculptures and life size sculptures."

Sister Farrell may be contacted at terri@fcpaonline.org; phone (815) 722-4140; fax (815) 722-9007. You may view more of her work and obtain additional contact information at http://fcpaonline.org/artist.asp?a=farrelka

Rotating at the top of this site as well as in pastel form in the background of this page is a mural produced for the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union/AFL-CIO. The others were acrylics on canvas done for the United Food and Commercial Workers and to memorialize the plight of U.S. chicken processing workers (si podemos). Enjoy.

Be well. Raise hell.

Murals/montages copyright © Kathleen Farrell



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