Iowa union workers head to Wisconsin protest

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http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=14147626

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A busload of eastern Iowa union members is headed to Wisconsin to support workers protesting their governor's proposal to limit union rights.

KCRG-TV reports that the bus that left Cedar Rapids Saturday morning was paid for by Scott Smith, president of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Building Trades Council. Smith said union workers going on the trip believe that teachers and workers who plow snow and clean streets deserve fair wages.

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1. WHAT A GOOD IDEA

"Human history can be viewed as a slowly
dawning awareness that we are members of
a larger group. Initially our loyalties
were to ourselves and our immediate
family, next, to bands of wandering
hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small
settlements, city-states, nations. We
have broadened the circle of those we
love. We have now organized what are
modestly described as super-powers,
which include groups of people from
divergent ethnic and cultural
backgrounds working in some sense
together — surely a humanizing and
character building experience. If we are
to survive, our loyalties must be
broadened further, to include the whole
human community, the entire planet
Earth. Many of those who run the nations
will find this idea unpleasant. They
will fear the loss of power. We will
hear much about treason and disloyalty.
Rich nation-states will have to share
their wealth with poor ones. But the
choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a
different context, is clearly the
universe or nothing."

--Carl Sagan

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2. Great news. Keep it coming.

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