Carrying the Banner pt 2

Part 1 is here. I'm rather glad now that I went with Newsies instead of Spider Jerusalem, which is the other thing that occurs to me right now. Spider is considerably less suitable for general public consumption. Not that I would mind a filthy assistant.

Overall, today, I'm seeing a lot of "Is [my state] next?" type articles. Thankfully, the blogs I'm seeing also cite bills, so we can all read and judge for ourselves what the language in the bills are, if not what the climate of the state is, necessarily, if we don't live there. I also found this AFSCME site (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) which, although it says members only, does have links to a lot of relevant laws sorted in alphabetical order by state.

Maryland/Virginia
DelMarVa Now (Delware/Maryland/Virginia) describes a discussion between the governors of Maryland and Virginia, but no action yet in either state.
This article in the Richmond Times details more of Virginia's position currently on unions: they have very few and the right-to-work provision is deeply embedded, as well as a 1993 law prohibiting collective bargaining by public sector workers.

Nebraska
This is an older article (Feb 6) by a local Nebraska newspaper, I'm looking for something more recent.

Nevada
This blog refers to this bill, which, the blog author says, "would eliminate mandatory collective bargaining for local government employees." I invite you to read and determine for yourself at the moment.

New Mexico
This blog mostly talks about Wisconsin, but it also cites this bill, claiming it eliminates collective bargaining rights for child care workers, and this bill, claiming it would make collective bargaining sessions public.
This article also goes into the New Mexico collective bargaining issue, and indicates that a repeal of those rights doesn't seem likely to happen.

North Carolina
The Miami-Dade Herald, of all places, was the first link that popped up about protesters calling an end to the ban on collective bargaining for public employees. This article agrees, and as an article up above under Virginia says, North Carolina prohibits collective bargaining. (HUH, says this NC resident, I did not know that.)

Utah
This Salt Lake Tribune article leads with "A Utah-based group has started the process to recall eight Wisconsin Democratic state senators from office." Elsewhere, I saw that state employees collective bargaining rights were being rallied for, but I couldn't immediately find any sources of a bill in Utah.

And I think, think, mind you.. that that's all the states.

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Previous link roundups regarding non-Wisconsin collective bargaining rights are here and here. They're also on Dreamwidth.

Oh my god you guys I am so tired I can't even begin to tell you. I am, in fact, so tired, that I started typing this with a Spanish keyboard for a second there. And I started typing, 'por supuesto, soy' and then realized, wait, no, backup, speaking to a primarily English speaking audience. And I almost missed my chair when I sat down. And a host of other signs.

My plan for tonight is, go home, take a long hot shower because I feel scusty and crappy. Cook dinner, maybe. Practice guitar, practice Japanese. Do another link roundup updating the last two (previously on Kitty's Livejournal...). Do some writing. Maybe do some spinning just to calm my damn nerves. Or read some more of Como Agua Para Chocolate. I don't know how many of these I'll actually get done because my nerves are shot, my brain is fried, I'm entertaining fantasies of going all Fight Club on Walker ("We cook your food, we clean your house. We guard you while you sleep. DO NOT. FUCK. WITH US.") Which is fun but not productive. It might come down to, practice guitar, practice Japanese, eat a healthy dinner and have a hot shower and go to sleep. If I manage to get everything else done I will pat myself on the back and call myself kick. Ass.

It's depressing. I don't ... remember where I got this particular bug up my ass but I remember that when I was a kid my mother worked for the Farmworkers Union out in California. She did the whole activism bit. And I remember as a kid my perception of unions was, this is what people do to come together so they can deal as a group with big companies and politics and fight for their rights, because otherwise you're a small town factory worker or a picker of oranges or something. And that's stayed in my mind. Whatever Hoffa and the Teamsters and any other corrupt unions have done, that's still in my mind. Fuck you, Walker, and your we need room to negotiate. The unions are willing to negotiate. They're not willing to lose all cohesion and collapse back into a mass of individuals with no right to gather and deal with you collectively. ... Hell, I'm not sure anyone should have to deal with you, you shit-for-brains little weasel, apologies to the weasel lovers. But somehow, you got elected. Probably because you're bought up to the eyeballs.

Okay, and at this point I'm just tired and angry and less than coherent, so I'm going to save the insults for my side of the screen and drop the dragons off and go find some hot water and my guitar.

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Okay. Thankfully, that was grammar rules and copying that over and so on, because I'm not sure I have brainpower left to do much of anything else. And is LJ acting up for anyone else or is it just me? I can't tell if my comments have posted or not.

Guitar. Maybe another link roundup. Some writing. Early bedtime. I give you this brief article about Obama dropping the government defense of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. Something decent had to go right today, right?

I can tag things properly, I swear. I can also do an F-chord on the guitar now. Like a boss. This means I now know Am, A, E, Dm, D, G, and C, in addition to F of course. Next up is the hideous B, and Em which will probably be a refresher. And then... god knows. It'll take me a while to do the B, I think. And I'll keep working on my chord changes. This is probably the most I've done on guitar in a while.