Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Right-Wing Hoaxster's Attack on Labor Educators Is Defeated

A Missouri labor educator was vindicated Monday after almost losing his job in an attack by notorious right-wing hoaxster Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart’s outfit was responsible for the deceptive videos that got Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod fired and that took down the national community organization ACORN.

After a vigorous campaign by the United Association for Labor Education, the University of Missouri-St. Louis backed down from its initial statement to Don Giljum that he would not be rehired next semester. The chancellor noted that, upon examination, Breitbart’s videos “were definitely taken out of context, with their meaning highly distorted through splicing and editing from different times within a class period and across multiple class periods.”


http://labornotes.org/2011/05/right-wing-hoaxsters-attack-labor-educators-defeated