Obama gives Nation’s Highest Honor to Socialist Activist

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From WorldNetDaily.com

By Aaron Klein

November 19, 2010

President Obama announced this week that he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian honor – to John Sweeney, president emeritus of the country’s biggest union, the AFL-CIO.

Sweeney is a socialist activist and a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, the principal American affiliate of the Socialist International. The DSA has demonstrated a close relationship with Obama over the years.

Sweeney is among 15 honorees that include former President George H.W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and poet Maya Angelou.

“These outstanding honorees come from a broad range of backgrounds and they’ve excelled in a broad range of fields,” stated Obama. “But all of them have lived extraordinary lives that have inspired us, enriched our culture, and made our country and our world a better place.”

Sweeney is a member of the DSA’s Boston chapter. He served as president of AFL-CIO from 1995 until his retirement last September.

He previously served for four terms as president of the controversial Service Employees International Union, or SEIU. During his administration, Sweeney famously aligned the SEIU with ACORN and other leftist groups.

Activist and author Joel Kotkin, a fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, observed how Sweeney brought communists into his union leadership.

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“The public-sector unions have pushed the entire labor movement to the left,” he said. “The [SEIU] has embraced organizations with a New Left origin, such as ACORN and Cleveland’s Nine to Five, and has even set up its own gay and lesbian caucus. … The rise of these unions led to the elevation of SEIU’s boss, John Sweeney, to head of the labor federation.

“No George Meaney-style bread-and-butter unionist, Sweeney is an advocate of European-style democratic socialism,” said Kotkin. “He has opened the AFL-CIO to participation by delegates openly linked to the Communist Party, which enthusiastically backed his ascent. The U.S. Communist Party [CPUSA] says it is now ‘in complete accord’ with the AFL-CIO’s program. ‘The radical shift in both leadership and policy is a very positive, even historic change,’ wrote CPUSA National Chairman Gus Hall in 1996 after the AFL-CIO convention.”

Upon assuming the office of the AFL-CIO in 1995, Sweeney was quick to rescind one of the union’s founding rules that banned Communist Party members and loyalists from leadership positions within the federation and its unions. Sweeney welcomed Communist Party delegates to positions of power in his federation.

Linda Chavez and Daniel Gray, in their book “Betrayal: How union bosses shake down their bosses and corporate America,” state Sweeney placed a number of DSA allies in his union office.

The DSA’s official website carries an endorsement from Sweeney: “I’m proud to a member of a movement for change that puts the cause of working people  the heart of the matter.”

Communists hailed labor role in Obama win

WND previously reported Sweeney was quoted by Political Affairs, the official magazine of the Communist Party USA, hailing the role of labor unions in Obama’s 2008 election.

Continue reading here…….

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Clinton health adviser

John Sweeney was a national health- care adviser to Bill Clinton in 1992, and his new book, America Needs a Raise, was ghosted by David Kusnet, Clinton’s chief speechwriter from 1992-94.[3]

Alliances

On taking over the AFL-CIO Sweeney formed alliances with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the National Organization for WomenMichael Lerner‘s Summit on Ethics and Meaning, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Natural Law Party, the Rainbow Coalition, and Voters for Choice, among others.[5]

Campaign for America’s Future

In 1996 John Sweeney, AFL-CIO was one of the original 130 founders of Campaign for America’s Future.[6]

Source: http://keywiki.org

http://keywiki.org/index.php/John_Sweeney

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Sweeney is a card-carrying member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the principal American affiliate of the Socialist International. 

In 1995 Sweeney was the leader of a troika elected to head the AFL-CIO. The other members of that ruling triumvirate were Linda Chavez-Thompson and Richard Trumka.

Sweeney’s threesome called itself “New Voice,” and ran pledging to repeal the policies of moderate AFL-CIO leaders. With government workers now the fastest – indeed, almost the only – growing segment of a shrinking organized labor movement, Sweeney, Trumka and Chavez-Thompson represented a turn away from blue-collar industrial unionism and the AFL-CIO’s traditional emphasis on raising wages and improving working conditions. That old path had succeeded in boosting blue-collar union member wages so high that up to 40 percent of these union members began voting Republican and complaining about higher taxes and bigger government.

Sweeney’s “new” unionism, by contrast, focuses on government workers who benefit from higher taxes and bigger government, and who therefore implicitly support socialism and the pro-Big Government Democratic Party.

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According to Yates, the apparent agenda of Sweeney, Chavez-Thompson and Trumka is to promote “class-based organizing.” Research, says Yates, shows that “those unions which mobilize rank-and-file workers around a program of aggressive solidarity and conflict with their employers have the best chance of winning union elections, bargaining good contracts, and resisting decertification.” 

In other words, the “New Voice” leaders promote class warfare, anti-capitalism, big government, and high rates of taxation. As an avowed socialist, Sweeney is ultimately devoted not to coexisting with capitalism but to making capitalism extinct.

The “Union Summer” indoctrination materials use explicit class-warfare rhetoric. Young participants are told to recite a pledge called “Working Class Commitment” that includes the Marxist dogma “that we produce the world’s wealth, that we belong to the only class with a future, that our class will end all oppression.”

Sweeney, Trumka and Chavez-Thompson also were quick to rescind a founding AFL-CIO rule that banned Communist Party members and loyalists from leadership positions within the Federation and its unions. The “New Voice” triumvirate with open arms welcomed Communist Party delegates to positions of power in the Federation.

More here……

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2009

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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States. It is designed to recognize individuals who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom

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So Obama is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to John Sweeney who:  promotes class warfare, anti-capitalism, big government, and high rates of taxation. As an avowed socialist, Sweeney is ultimately devoted not to coexisting with capitalism but to making capitalism extinct.

HAD ENOUGH…….YET……AMERICA?

We are not racist.

We are not violent.

We are just NO LONGER SILENT.

“I AM……..APPALLED AND DISGUSTED.”

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