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1884 - McCoy & Everette Pyle discover important Tataviam Indian artifacts in Bowers Cave (Val Verde) [story]
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1884 - McCoy & Everette Pyle discover important Tataviam Indian artifacts in Bowers Cave (Val Verde) [story]
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College of the Canyons captured a 13th straight Western State Conference Championship on Monday, April 29 at Knollwood Country Club, after a 36-hole tourney that saw all six players finish in the top-10 of the field's individual standings and send the Cougars to another 3C2A Southern California Regional Championship event.
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1927: First major competition, second annual rodeo, at new Baker Ranch arena (later Saugus Speedway). Overflow crowd more than fills 18,000-seat arena. Entire SCV population was ~3,000 [story]
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A relic of Saint Jude has left Italy for the first time on an extended tour of the United States. Treasures of the Church, an evangelization ministry of the Catholic church, will present the Tour of the Relic of St. Jude the Apostle. The relic of St. Jude will be hosted Monday, May 6 at Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church.
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Given the ongoing uncertain situation in the Red Sea and surrounding area and following extensive consultation with global security experts and government authorities, Princess Cruises, which is headquartered in Valencia, is revising the itineraries for its two 2025 World Cruises, which will no longer visit the Middle East or Asia, and now instead, will offer new port stops in Africa and Europe.
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1973 - Watergate figure H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, a former CalArts board member, resigns from Nixon White House [link]
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Labor Day is supposed to be about respect for American workers.
Sadly, the only time the rightwing fringe cares about labor is on Labor Day, which Eric Cantor really wants to change to Business Owners Day instead. Here is his tweet from 2012: “Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.”
Cantor and the rightwing got a lot of grief last year for this nonsense. So this year, Joe Messina delivers the new, improved message that Labor Day is about unions. Union thugs. That tend to vote Democratic Party.
Fifty years ago, union membership was 30 percent of the workforce; today it is 11.3 percent. But American workers do want to organize. Why haven’t they been able to?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-23/the-real-reason-for-the-decline-of-american-unions.html
Because beginning in the 1960s, the right pushed policies and legislation stripping workers of their rights, union bashing, cutting wages, outsourcing jobs, down-sizing, eroding labor laws and pay equity, discriminating, phasing out pensions, benefits and contracts, eliminating financial, health and safety regulations, and generally telling the American worker to go to hell.
If workers actually had the freedom of choice Messina claims, would they tolerate this? No. No one would work at companies that don’t respect workers rights and safety laws. Those companies would go out of business. So what Messina claims clearly is not true.
The reality for American workers is this: “According to research from the Brookings Institution, only 58 percent of Americans born into the bottom fifth of income earners move out of that category, and just 6 percent born into the bottom fifth move into the top. Economic mobility in the United States is lower than in most of Europe and lower than in all of Scandinavia.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/
The right deliberately tanked the economy and outsourced jobs as a power grab. The right wants to keep workers so focused on their shaky economic future they won’t be able to notice the slow elimination of the American workplace as we knew and fought for, and the massive profits and phenomenal power corporations are amassing.
The right wants us to think there is no exploited proletariat. Just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The American Dream.
Because you have to be asleep to believe it.