Charlie Averill

• Looking back -looking forward

  
  The following letter was written by Ken Kovack, Legislative Director for the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) and appears here with his permission.
  
  November 25, 2009
  
  From: Ken Kovack, Legislation, Washington, DC Office
  Message:
  
  Looking back – looking forward:
  
  During [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:58am EST
  

• Treat your paper carrier good

  Well, I hope you all enjoyed a great Thanksgiving Day.
  
  Receiving the South Bend Tribune on Thanksgiving brought back memories of my days as a paper boy in Hobart.
  
  There were about twenty of us, all boys in those days, that delivered the Chicago Tribune. We would all [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:24pm EST
  

• Thank you God....For My Union

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:45am EST
  

• Public Option no triggers

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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:33pm EST
  

• Thank you Senator Bayh

  Congratulations and thanks to all of you who attended town hall meetings, demonstrated, wrote letters, made phone calls, visited with your Senators, prayed, etc. etc. for meaningful health care reform.
  
  This evening, all fair minded members of the U.S. Senate voted to begin the debate on the health care [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:51pm EST
  

• Charlie is my kind of guy

  For millions of Americans, Thanksgiving is home, food, and family. And for many of us, the inevitable polite conversation with the uncle who has squandered too many hours listening to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
  
  How are you to survive an evening with your Uncle Mortimer?
  
  You know, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  

• Retirees Praise Reid Health Bill

  815 16th Street, NW, 4th Floor ♦ Washington, D.C. 20006 ♦ (202) 637-5399 ♦ www.retiredamericans.org
  
  For Immediate Release Contact: David Blank (202) 637-5275
  November 19, 2009 dblank@retiredamericans.org
  
  Step in Right Direction, Seniors Advocate Says
  
  The following statement was issued today by Edward F. Coyle, Executive Director of [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:13am EST
  

• Bishops Call For Withdrawal from Afghanistan

  An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
  

  Dear President Obama,

  We greet you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

  We, Bishops of The United Methodist Church, whose names appear below, are deeply concerned about the escalating war in Afghanistan.

  We call upon you to set a [...]

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:36pm EST
  

• Religious Leaders - Keep your views to yourselves

  Every excuse in the world is being presented by the right wing nuts to derail health care reform.
  Much of it is being advanced by our so called religious leaders, especially the bishops of the catholic church (all men, by the way) who have been provided with darned good medical [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:56am EST
  

• Call Senator Bayh

  I just found out the the daughter of one of our retirees recently went bankrupt because of healthcare costs.
  
  Please take a few minutes to Call Senator Bayh's office to let him know that the people of Indiana want Health Care Reform with a strong public option.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:53am EST
  

• Petition for Jobs Now

  
  
  Please click on the petition to the right to enlarge it. Then, print it out and mail it to us.
  
  Thanks. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  

• I Feel So Much Safer - Right Wingers are such hypocrites

  Todays South Bend Tribune reports that the Indiana State Police have arrested a 49 year old woman for growing 90 marijuana plants in her home. Gosh, now don't you all feel so much safer?
  Such poppy cock.
  Today, the weed enthusiasts will be dispersing literally millions of marijuana seed along' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:53am EST
  

• Which Congressman side with Working Families vs. Insurance Companies

  For Immediate Release
  Contact: Kenneth J. Zeller
  Joseph Breedlove
  317-632-9147
  
  Reps. Carson, Donnelly, Ellsworth, Hill and Visclosky
  Get A+ for Historic Health Care Vote,
  Health Care Vote Shows Who Sides With
  Working Families vs. Insurance Companies
  
  (Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 9, 2009) – On the heels of [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:08pm EST
  

• Send Your Best Wishes to our Fort Hood Hero

  by James Parks, Nov 10, 2009
  
  Sgt. Kimberly Munley is a bona fide hero, having risked her life to stop the alleged gunman who killed 13 people and injured 30 at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5. Munley shot the alleged assailant, Maj. Nidal Hasan, four times, despite being [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:05am EST
  

• Donnelly - Good for You

  
  
  I was watching the debate on health care reform closely yesterday and gritted my teeth during the vote, preparing my mind to work my heart out to defeat Joe Donnelly in the next primary if he should end up voting the wrong way.
  But alas, Joe came through [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:13am EST
  

• Let's Make it Happen Now

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:52am EST
  

• Republicans in Congress

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:38pm EST
  

• Phone or email your Congressman today

  The House will likely vote on their health care bill tomorrow, a bill that guarantees quality, affordable health care for all and gives us a choice of a public health insurance option. It meets all of our principles and deserves to be passed.
  
  Yesterday, I participated in a conference [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

• Congratulations to Georgia Pacific Workers

  Today, the workers at the Georgia Pacific Gypsum plant in Wheatfield, Indiana won their election to be members of the United Steelworkers Union.
  
  We need the Employee Free Choice Act so workers won't ever have to go through what this stinking company has put them through for the last' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:32pm EST
  

• Georgia Pacific Field of Dreams

  Union members at the Georgia Pacific Gypsum plant in Wheatfield, Indiana fought a long and hard battle and finally ratified a labor contract last spring. Shortly before the ratification vote, a decertification petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board by a small group which [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:49pm EST
  

• It's hard to be a Blogger, Georgia Pacific

  In attempting to be a blogger, I'm not doing too good. I'm saying in so few words what otherwise could be said in so many. If any of you have details of a college course I could get that could teach me how to say in 1000 words or more [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:09am EST
  

• Butterfly, my favorite aria

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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:52pm EST