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Saturday, August 25, 2012

About Those 1/2 Million Call Center Jobs Shipped Overseas... - YouTube

About Those 1/2 Million Call Center Jobs Shipped Overseas... - YouTube: "


"Ron Collins, Communication Workers of America (CWA) joins Thom Hartmann. A job that's becoming increasingly harder and harder to find in America over the last few years is one in the call center industry. Since 2006 - a half-millions American call center jobs have been packed up and shipped overseas to low-wage countries. Companies like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and T-Mobile are the some of the biggest culprits when it comes to killing American call center jobs. But, Democrats in Congress have been pushing legislation to put an end ot this mass exodus of jobs. The Unite States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act cuts off federal loans and benefits to companies that off-shore their call center jobs. This bill also keeps a running list of companies that have off-shored call center jobs in an effort to discourage the practice. Back in June, the House of Representatives took a vote on this legislation - and most Republicans lined up against it - killing the bill - and leaving the few Americans who still have call center jobs screwed. But now, Democrats in the Senate are trying to revive the legislation with the help of Senators Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Bob Casey in Pennsylvania - two states that have been hit really hard by call center job losses. As Senator Sherrod Brown said this week in defense of the United States Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act: “When companies send call center jobs overseas, they don’t just frustrate consumers - they hurt our economy as well. With thousands of Ohioans looking for work, it just doesn’t make sense to ship these jobs overseas.” He's right - so what can be done to make sure this legislation passes to stimulate OUR economy - instead of stimulate foreign economes with what used to be American call center jobs. 

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Monday, August 6, 2012


Wikileaks Logo - Illustration
Wikileaks Logo - Illustration (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares
Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again
by Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff

Forbes.com
July 18, 2012

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/18/wikileaks-reopens-channel-for-credit-card-donations-dares-visa-and-mastercard-to-block-it-again/

After 18 months of having its funding nearly completely cut
off by a payment industry blockade, WikiLeaks says it's
finally found a new workaround that allows it to receive
credit card donations again. The Fund for the Defense of Net
Neutrality (FDNN) has agreed to accept donations on behalf of
WikiLeaks, through the French payment card system Carte Bleue.
WikiLeaks claims that Visa and MasterCard are contractually
obligated to allow payments through Carte Bleue, and thus are
prevented from blocking the donations as they've done in the
past. After a legal victory against Visa in Iceland, the group
is literally daring the card companies to shut down payments
again.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Raise our taxes. Please

The western front of the United States Capitol...
The western front of the United States Capitol. The Capitol serves as the seat of government for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It is located in Washington, D.C., on top of Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall. The building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings. It is an exemplar of the Neoclassical architecture style. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Congress faces a choice. It can ask the wealthiest 2 percent to limit ourselves to the tax cuts other Americans get — those on the portions of our incomes under $250,000 — so that it can shrink the deficit while continuing to invest in education, infrastructure, clean energy, health care, and rebuilding a strong middle class. Or it can slash investments vital to our nation’s future in order to be even more generous to those of us who need it the least. That shouldn’t be a hard choice."
   http://wapo.st/Pm12x5

~~Top two percenters to Congress:
 Raise our taxes. Please.

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