Guest Sermon by A.J. Segneri First Unitarian Church of Chicago Sunday, September 1, 2013 I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for attending this Labor Day service, and I would like to especially thank those who helped plan and are participating in this service. Again thank you, and I would like to dedicate this moment to those laborers who have fallen during their fight for their rights. In 1999, my friends and I took a trip to New Mexico to backpack for two weeks in the southern Rockies. On this particular backpacking trip we could visit various…

by Jill E. Stein September 5, 2011 President Obama’s new job proposals are intended to send a political message that the President cares about the dismal state of the economy. But America needs a decisive and immediate solution, not a limited gesture for the unemployment emergency facing 25 million workers in need of full time jobs that aren’t there. We need a Green New Deal that will establish government’s responsibility to guarantee the right to a job for every American willing and able to work. The roots of this lie in the Employment Assurance concept that the Roosevelt administration used…

an open Letter to Philly Unions .. STOP Supporting the Democrats and Republicans! Let’s Run Our Union Reps for City Council at Large & City Commisioner in 2011 as Green Party Candidates! I am a union representative for the UFCW, Local 152. Many of you know me or have heard about me in my run for State Representative where I produced the highest percentage of vote of any third party candidate in a three-way race – beating the Republican in Philadelphia! I produced this great victory because I stood for the issues, used basic union organizing skills, took NO corporate…