Everything Ulster (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
It's been a busy few weeks for those following the debate over the national stadium plans for the Maze. A matter of a couple of weeks before Peter Robinson is due to make his 'recommendation' to the Executive over the Maze plans, it has emerged John Sweeney, the Permanent Secretary of DCAL ( the deparment headed by Edwin Poots, the Maze's head cheerleader - nothing to do with the fact...
Kicking Ass Ann Arbor (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
... out there and party it up. But then there’s this. This is former New York Republican Congressman John Sweeney at a frat party in 2006 where he was “visibly intoxicated”. (Link here ) This crosses the line completely. A Congressman doing this is simply unacceptable. Any 51 year old man, especially a Congressman, should not be drunk at a frat party. The difference between him and Leinart...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
... 1199 Wisconsin President and registered nurse Dian Palmer today called on AFL-CIO President John Sweeney to retract his hasty statement last week criticizing SEIU members and accepting the inaccurate depiction presented by the California Nurses Association (CNA). Palmer urged Sweeney to view unedited video footage to determine for himself that the much-debated April 12 protest...
The Sleuth (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
It looks like the vast right wing conspiracy doesn't discriminate when it comes to party affiliation. Lawyers for John Sweeney Jr., the son of former GOP Rep. John Sweeney of upstate New York, are now arguing that the younger Sweeney's arrest in a violent brawl four years ago was part of a conspiracy led by former Gov. George Pataki -- a Republican -- to destroy congressman...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Yesterday in the Washington Post, AFL-CIO’s president John Sweeney rhetorically asked “How many murders are ‘acceptable’?” regarding the union killings that have been used as argument by Congressional Democrats to delay indefinitely a vote on the FTA with Colombia. “I can’t answer… with a number other than zero,” stated Sweeney. That’s good posturing. Sweeney presents these...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
To anyone who thinks that Scientology is a creepy cult, this BBC documentary certainly won't do anything to disabuse you of that impression. While making the film, journalist John Sweeney is repeatedly shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight by his appointed ?minder? from the church (who looks somewhat like Tom Cruise), denounced as a "bigot" by star Scientologists and...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Last Sept. 27, 16-year-old Andres Damian Florez Rodriguez was on his way home from school when he was forced into a van by three armed men. Andres is the son of Jose Domingo Florez, a leader of the Coca-Cola bottling union in Santander. The assailants drove along, beating the boy while they received radio instructions. Then they gave him a message to convey: "Tell your papa that we won't rest until...
BwT (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
This World - Chavez~The Trillion Dollar Revolutionary Image: http://www.image4host.com/files/sbl7jke6cvriwrwt10gf.png This World's John Sweeney goes to Venezuela to investigate just how good the controversial President is at running his own country. President Hugo Chavez calls the United States...
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The jobs report is a disaster and we need to take action now. While the business elite wrings its hands and analyzes what this means for the faceless economy, working people already know. This report means there are 434,000 more...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
President Bush’s decision to send the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Congress over the strong objections of the leadership of both the House and the Senate “shows an outrageous disregard for basic human and workers’ rights,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says. In a statement, Sweeney says: Workers in Colombia are terrorized every day for standing up for their economic...
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Forty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. But the movement Dr. King led with unparalleled strength and commitment was much larger than any one man, as he well understood. Inspired by his words...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Here's a podcast that probably isn't downloaded to many executive iPods or streamed on CEO laptops— Corporate Watchdog Radio . The show's latest installment recaps the recent Investor Summit on Climate Risk held at the United Nations and includes a segment featuring AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and his call to link the fight to stop global warming to social justice and a fair global...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
John Sweeney knows the benefits of catching the wind. The Harvard resident's 35-foot sailboat, moored at Buzzards Bay, is outfitted with a 10-foot-tall, 200-watt wind turbine that powers electronics and other on-board equipment during jaunts to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Heretical Sex (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Here are links to some of the excellent articles by Camilla Cavendish, journalist at the Times of London. Guilty until proved innocent: the grotesque reality of family courts John Sweeney, an investigative reporter and presenter on the BBC's Real Story, describes reporting on the family courts as being as difficult as reporting from Zimbabwe. Of the seven child abuse cases he has covered...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Sen. John McCain has a habit of voting away good U.S. jobs--not to mention overtime pay, Social Security, Medicare, our freedom to form unions and bargain and more. When the AFL-CIO started doing research to uncover John McCain's record on working family issues , it was like peeling an onion--layer after layer of hostile, Bush-esque actions and positions wrapped in McCain's camouflage...
