Does this face look familiar?

[Playinghardball]

Workers, please take notice...

[Kalidurga]

1. I love it

Bernie is getting a lot of local union support. Now I just have to figure out how to get my outreach group to connect with other groups so we can talk to national unions for an endorsement.

[Siwsan]

2. I was just looking at a campaign contribution list

between Hillary and Bernie. It was an eye opener. I am fully prepared to back which ever candidate wins the nomination, and refuse to engage in any bashing so I will just say the corporate support behind Hillary vs the union support behind Bernie made my union self sit up and take notice.

[SoapBox]

5. It's a real eye opener!

No more Banksters.

[orpupilofnature57]

7. He's the only one indicting Wall Street and their rats .

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Haha! Perfect! They like him! They really like him!

[SoapBox]

4. Super excellent!

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Beautiful ! Norma and Bernie !!!!!

[appalachiablue]

8. Love it! Based on a true story, NC early 1970s. Hope it circulates widely! Go Labor, Go Bernie!

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living- Mother Jones.

[BrotherIvan]

9. I like that quote

She and I woulda had a lotta drinks and shot the shit. I love people like that.

[appalachiablue]

11. Ireland born 'Mother' Mary Harris Jones was a real fighter, lost all her 4 small children and

her husband in a yellow fever epidemic in 1837 but kept going to help workers, miners and child laborers. '"The Angel of the Miners", Mary was a union activist and fiery speaker once jailed for reading the Declaration of Independence to people if you can believe that. And she once claimed, "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser!". Born in 1830 she lived to be a 100 or more, and spent her last years in Silver Spring, MD. I think she should be considered for the new currency bills along with Harriet Tubman and others.

In 1912 and again in 1923 Mother Jones was involved with coal miner conditions and strikes in the coalfields of southern WV. She was convicted of attempted murder, but before an investigation started due to national uproar, new Gov. Henry D. Hatfield (1912) released her from jail. He was a fairly progressive Republican governor, an MD and ancestor. This period of history is a fav as you see. Those were different times for sure, but what we might be returning to if major systems aren't altered in this country.

Several days ago I was planning to change my *sig line to MoJo's quote. Your comment reminded me, so thanks.

-Illinois Labor History, Mother Jones, the Miners Angel.
http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/articles/172-mother-jones-the-miners-angel.html

[BrotherIvan]

12. Thanks, I have been meaning to read her bio

We need some fighters and hellraisers again.

[appalachiablue]

14. Amen to more fighters and hellraisers, not to be uncouth but we need more people with

conviction, courage and SPINE! Like Bernie, Warren, Grayson and many working in grassroots groups for positive change like our ancestors for heaven's sake.

People in southern Europe are forming populist organizations to fight brutal austerity- housing foreclosures and homelessness, pensions slashed, huge unemployment esp. among youth- for 6 years. And they're having some success, esp. in hard hit Spain where two new progressive women Mayors were elected in both Barcelona and Madrid.

After the 2008 Crash Iceland put their bankers in jail, and some fled for their lives. Sweden also just took harsh actions against financial predators.

Trickle down, free market neoliberal economic policies are devouring the world- us and the earth. Got to stop.
Even the Pope is meeting with economic journalist and author Naomi Klein about working to halt climate change. The Pope also just came out against killer toxins from Monsanto and pesticides.
(No people = No Pope, but whatever the motivation is fine at this point!).
Pardon my outspokenness, it must be our American Revolution for Independence spirit coming out!

[BrotherIvan]

15. I am moving to Spain in the fall and am looking forward to witnessing

the energy. They still have a monarchy and Catalonia was hoping Scotland would break off from UK so they could too. Europeans are much better at demanding their rights than Americans because they still have a tradition of worker's rights. Very ironic since the US always advertises it's "freedom" and rights of the individual. But those rights have been chipped away for a long time. The most effective campaign is the propaganda that the rich really ARE superior and the inferior worker should work until she drops just to buy a bunch of crap she doesn't need. They have won the war by putting the nation to sleep. Hopefully we can wake up, but I really truly doubt it.

[jwirr]

13. As I read her story I also thought of another southerner who Bernie reminds me of: Huey Long and

his "Share the Wealth" populism. Hopefully the Louisiana will remember him when they think about voting.

[BrotherIvan]

10. Good movie, worth a watch if you haven't seen it for a while

God I miss 70s movies. I wish we could make good ones like that again. Sigh...

[hootinholler]

16. That's got to be photoshopped

Please, provide provenance for her endorsement.