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Thursday, December 5, 2013

12-5-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:






Bob Zellner. Moral Mondays in North Carolina.
  Julian Bond and Bob Zellner. Bob Zellner is a long-time social justice organizer and veteran of SNCC and the Southern Civil Rights Movement. From North Carolina: Report on the trial of the dirty dozen. The practice of law, like organizing, consists of large swaths of boredom punctuated by periods of exhilaration. Our trial yesterday in Raleigh, NC for the crime of witnessing at the state legisl

Mandela.

Quinn signs pension theft bill. What he was put on this earth to do. Now he can leave.
  Squeezy signed the bill in a private location this afternoon. Union and retiree lawyers head for court. WGN: “Illinois is moving forward,” Governor Quinn said in a statement. “This is a serious solution to address the most dire fiscal challenge of our time.” State lawmakers passed the major overhaul to pension legislation in a history-making vote at the state capitol on Tuesday. The worst-funde

I discuss pensions with Ken Davis and journalists on Chicago Newsroom.
. Ken Davis is joined by Marcus Gilmer, Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Konkol, DNAInfo Chicago and blogger Fred Klonsky. They discuss Tuesday’s landmark legislation to cut public employee pensions and how the juvenile justice system adjudicates gun crimes. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network TV. It will be broadcast tonight, Thursday for those with have Chicago cable.

Pension thieves.





12-4-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: It’s the Democrats, stupid. And the Republicans, if they mattered.  Democrat Kelly Cassidy was for it before she was against it before she was for it. Democrat Toni Berrios was for it before she got primaried and voted against it.   Will Guzzardi’s primary challenge is the reason Berrios flipped. Ther