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AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama

AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech given at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, sponsored by USW Pre...
AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech given at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. FABULOUS! Entire speech at http://www.usw.org/multimedia/video

Mr. Trumka formerly served as president of the United Mine Workers of America.

UPDATE: On February 6, 2009 Mr. Trumka was appointed to The White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board, to be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker.

UPDATE: On July 9, 2009 Mr. Trumka announced his candidacy for President of the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation. He made history by adding two women to his slate: Liz Shuler, current executive assistant to the Electrical Workers (IBEW) President, to be his Secretary-Treasurer, and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, to continue on that position.
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paw1dawg (2 days ago) Show Hide
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Richard Trumpka for President of AFL-CIO, its been a long time coming!
TheRghtWng (3 days ago) Show Hide
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Richard Trumka is a Goon. He is liar. He is a propagandist.
RIchard Trumka is one of the lowest levels of humans on the planet.
He doesnt believe what hes saying. He would speak for 3 hours about how his Mother is bad for the country if it advanced Big labor.
Rot in Hell Trumka
cameo9876 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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You don't know what you're talking about. If you were in trouble you would be lucky of Mr. Trumka were there b/c he would be the first person to help you.
DefenceSpeech (4 days ago) Show Hide
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Not taking anything away from this guys speech, but people need to realize that the Democratic and Republican parties are what destroyed this country in the first place. They are both at the beckoned call of the corporations and lobbyists, and both couldn't care less about the working class.

Next time you vote, look at the platform of the third party candidates, I assure you they will have not only better policies, but will more than likely follow through on what they propose to change.
dayfan1962 (5 days ago) Show Hide
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Excellent speech! Racism is an ugly fact of life in AMERICA. It's about time someone other than other African Americans see it, call it out and speak against it so we can ALL get on with the business of the American dream........
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dogpoke, the ignorance in your post is amazing.
arabbit55 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Wow, its funny becaue would it really matter what RELIGION a person is, as long as they did a good job running the country? You need to get YOUR head out of "the sand". Yes, I am muslim, and a liberal. Have your 2 cents.
arabbit55 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Your race shouldn't be the most important thing in your life. Who you are should be the most important thing in your life and your race unfortunately plays a big role in that.
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commiepanda (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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what difference does it make how dark their skin is? but i have a quite a few black friends. one was my roommate in college and my best friend now is black.
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