February is Black History Month, usually recognized in the media and in schools by celebrating Dr. King or a prominent Black athlete, performer or other celebrity.

This year’s Super Bowl will feature two teams from 1199SEIU turf—the New England Patriots vs. the NJ-NY Giants.

Monday, January 16^th, we will be observing the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If he were alive today, what do you think he would want to tell us?

With many of the Occupy encampments shut down by local mayors and police, much of the mainstream media are pretending that the Occupy movement is dead.

Time Magazine has just named as its Person of the Year, “The Protester”, a reference to the grassroots movements from Tunisia and Egypt to Occupy Wall Street.

In less than three months, the Occupy Wall Street movement, with its “99 Percent” formulation, has changed the national political conversation from “deficits” to issues facing working people—jobs, income disparity, corporate control of the political process, “banks get bailed out, we get sold out.” Big banks were forced to drop their attempt to charge consumers for debit card transactions.

It’s understandable why so many working-class and poor people try to take advantage of “Black Friday” bargain shopping for Christmas. On the other hand, Black Friday puts a huge burden on retail store workers and their families who essentially have to give up Thanksgivings so the stores can make bigger profits. (At Target, a non-union chain like most big retail outfits, workers initiated a petition campaign against “Black Friday” because of this.