‘Redskins’ football team protested
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About 5000 people marched and rallied at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Nov. 2 to protest the Washington Redskin’s racist name and logos. The protest took place before the football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Washington team. Rhonda Reese, who marched with protesters from the American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center, told a reporter from the Twin Cities Daily Planet that she was there because “Redskins” is a racial slur. “It’s a bounty they put on the Native people for their scalps,” she said. “It’s negative and it’s derogatory.” Clyde Bellecourt, a founding member of the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media, told the media: “All of these mascots have to go. Black Sambo is gone, John Wayne is dead. It’s time for America to let it go.” The protesters rallied two days after a federal judge indicated that the Redskins’ owners could proceed, for now, with their lawsuit against five Native American activists who had successfully petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Redskins patent registrations. Meanwhile, the FCC has said that they might ban use of INSIDE the team name during television broadcasts.
population was smashed, while the top ten percent flourished in the context of the largest rich-poor gap in the modern era. George Bush was a miser to the corporate elite by comparison.
Obama raised the war and surveil lance budgets to record highs, today ap proaching $2 trillion a year. Bush was far behind. Yet it was Obama, after all, who was elected as a “man of peace and democratic rights!”
Obama started, continued and/or se cretly organized seven wars at once: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Bah rain, Yemen, Egypt and Ukraine, plus lots of covert wars across the globe— drone wars, death-squad privatized army wars, and more. George Bush was a pacifist by comparison.
“Champion of the working class” Obama created six million new jobs since 2009, 76 percent of which were low-wage (50-65 percent less than full time jobs), non-union, no benefit, part-time or temporary work at substandard conditions. Meanwhile, one million fulltime jobs per year, largely union jobs, were offshored to distant lands to in Twin Cities Daily Planet crease the super-profits of U.S. multinational corporations.
Obama reduced the official unemploy ment rate to slightly less than seven percent today. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t include in its figures the 8 million “discouraged” workers who have dropped out of the employ ment market. They have no work but are not “unemployed” according to the government’s number crunchers. In truth, close to 35 percent of the U.S. workforce today has no job!
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