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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:22 PM
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Children become orphans as feds bust union drive (tear a nursing infant from the arms of her mother)

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/13115/1/266/

Author: John Wojcik
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/26/08 10:37

Questions: Where in this world do tax dollars pay government agents to park near preschool centers and watch parents drop off or pick up their babies?

In what type of land do government agents stalk busloads of 5-year-old school children and the staff who teach them?

Where do government agents smash in a front door and tear a nursing infant from the arms of her mother?

Answer: In Postville, Iowa, where employers want to stop a union organizing drive at Agriprocessors Inc., the nation’s biggest kosher beef slaughtering plant.

The largest single immigration raid in history at that plant, May 12, tore families apart and turned children with loving parents into orphans, immigrant rights and labor activists testified to Congress on May 20.

The military-style commando raid by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) stopped a union organizing drive at the plant dead in its tracks, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers, the union spearheading the drive.

FULL story at link.

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:24 PM
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1. That would make Pat Buchanon, and a lot of Americans very proud.
The fuckers.
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iamjoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:25 PM
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2. Union Should Be Required For Kosher
Kosher comes from the Hebrew for "proper"

Since many Jewish principles involve kindness to the less fortunate and the bible often mentions kindness to "servants" and the poor, no meat should be considered kosher if it was made with exploited labor.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:42 PM
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4. Interesting point. Thanks for educating us! nt
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 08:24 PM
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6. Not violating the law and perpetuating a new slave class should be "Kosher"
Nuff said.

Duke

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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 07:39 PM
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3. Disgusting. nt
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 08:12 PM
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5. "they" did the same thing in the early 1900`s
against the garment workers strike...i remember reading about this a long time ago..
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