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#WSJ reporter in #HongKong claims #Murdoch owned media outlet fired her for #winning role as an elected #UnionLeader in June after #Beijing criticized #union and #PressFreedom. #NewsCorp owned #DowJones claims routine #ReOrg and editorial focus shift to #Singapore necessary in current biz climate.

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"It's an honor to be the first Teamster of our 121-year history to address The #RepublicanNationalConvention said #Teamsters #Prez Sean O'Brien, who has received sharp criticism for giving a 17 minute address onstage during opening night of the RNC Trump Vance coronation event in #Milwaukee..The oft combative #unionleader who narrowly avoided a #CapitolHll fist fight with a #GOP rep last yr stopped short of #endorsing Trump but said he "The American people aren't stupid, they know the system is broken. ...Working people have no chance of winning this fight. That's why I'm here today, because I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did," O'Brien railed against "The Elites" after he kissed the rings of the leadership of the political party proposing more tax cuts for the billionaire class as well as pledges to decimate so called #Socialist programs like publicly funded #Education and #HealthCare

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Shock Poll Shows Independent Nebraska Union Leader Beating Republican Senator

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/04/nebraska-senate-dan-osborn-deb-fisher/

#NebraskaSenateRace #IndependentCandidate #RepublicanSenator #ShockPoll #UnionLeader #DebFisher #Politics #News

.> Gandhi's name has been associated with this quote since at least 1982, when the Workshop Of Nonviolence Institute summed up Gandhi's philosophy in an issue of WIN Magazine:

..> Gandhi once observed that every movement goes through four stages: First they ignore you; then they abuse you; then they crack down on you and then you win.

.> The misattributed quote, then, is most likely a combination of Klein's 1914 speech combined with an attempt to summarize Gandhi's nonviolent doctrine and philosophy.

.> a speech by union leader Nicholas Klein in 1914 provides a closer version of the misattributed quote:

..> And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.