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From The Dallas Voice: http://www.dallasvoice.com/group-backing-sally-kern-calls-transgender-opponent-brittany-novotny-a-confused-it-1043177.html

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By  John Wright

—  John Wright

The religious right’s scheme to take the governorship of Hawaii hangs by a thread…

Hawaii has an open primary system and in a story I wrote last April 22, 2010, Christian Right Claims Both 2010 Hawaii Gubernatorial Candidates I predicted exactly what is now happening–an effort to convince evangelical Christians in Hawaii who are registered as Republicans to cross over in the Democratic Party primary this coming Saturday, September 18, and vote for Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Mufi Hannemann.

Former mayor of Honolulu Hannemann, as I detailed in an extended April 2010 two part series (part 1, part 2), is (along with Republican candidate for governor Duke Aiona) tied to a virulently antigay, eliminationist stream of the international Christian right that’s seeking to place its people in positions of political power.

But last week an angry email from the Hawaii GOP head that leaked out to the press and gained national media attention has thrown a wrench into that movement’s plot to place one of its chosen politicians in the Hawaii governor’s office.

[video, below: ITN head Ed Silvoso tells his fellow leaders that it doesn’t matter who wins the race for governor because both candidates, Republican and Democrat, running to be Hawaii’s next governor in the 2010 election, will be “in the kingdom.”]

Continue reading at:   http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/09/christian-rights-plot-to-take-hawaii-governorship-hangs-by-a-mufi-hannemann-thread/

If an employer wants to fire you they can.  You have no rights.

You can than the Rich, the Corporations and their tools Republicrats and Democans who make up our elected officials.  they Red Baited the people who cared the most about worker’s rights out of the unions in the 1940s and 50s then they proceeded to kill the unions in the years since.

The Unions are the only things that insure workers have any rights.  Otherwise you are basically slaves.

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Fired Have Few Options

Even illegal dismissals are tough to prove in court

What happens if you think you have been fired for a bad reason?

If you are a private sector employee not under contract in the US, there are not many legal options to pursue unless you can prove a civil rights violation.

“Private-sector employees don’t have rights” in the US, said Charles Carver, a professor specializing in employment law at George Washington Law School.  An Employee can be fired for any reason.

For any legal reason that is. Workers can’t be dismissed for being whistle blowers, and federal law prohibits employers from dismissing or discriminating against workers because of their sex, national origin, religion, race, color, age or disabilities.  You can also sue an employer for violating an employment contract, and there are state by state definitions of wrongful terminations.

But then even a dismissal that would be illegal can be hard to prove.

“The courts have cut back on wrongful termination cases”, said Steve Paskoff, president of HR consultancy ELI and a former attorney with the government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “You want to have ‘smoking gun’ facts.”

Even if you do happen to press ahead with— and win– a lawsuit over losing a job, you might be better off settling for back pay and other damages rather than asking to be reinstated in your position.

There can be so much ill will folowing a legal battle that it would be better if the former employee didn’t return, Pashoff said.

Tina and I were discussing the history of various peasant rebellions here in the US and elsewhere including the Rent Wars in upstate New York:

From: http://www.oneonta.edu/library/dailylife/protest/index.html

From about 1839 to 1852 farmers in parts of Delaware, Albany, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, Otsego, Montgomery, and Washington Counties staged a massive revolt against what they considered an unjust system of land tenure. Modeling themselves after the patriots who instigated the Boston Tea Party, they disguised themselves as “Indians” and caused much grief to law enforcement officials and landlords.  The Anti-Renters communicated by blowing tin dinner horns, relaying the sound from farm to farm over the hills and valleys: at the sound of the horn, the “Indians” dropped  work and  rushed to a predetermined meeting place.  They disrupted sales of property, tarred and feathered their opponents, and in August 1845 shot Delaware County Undersheriff Osman Steele at a farm sale organized by the authorities to collect money to pay back rent.   This is their story.

Then we started discussing the Diggers and the rebellion of 1649.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers