DemocracyForAmerica Campaign Taining
I wanted to make sure you saw the announcement last week about our first DFA Campaign Training of 2010. We are gearing up for another exciting year of training here at DFA and as someone who has attended one of our trainings in the past three years, you know how effective they can be for a local progressive community.

1,500-mile trek brings attention to illegal immigrants floridatoday.com FLORIDA TODAY
MELBOURNE — Gaby Pacheco always has wanted to give back to the country where she's spent most of her life. The 24-year-old earned her bachelor's degree in special education from Miami-Dade College last year. But she can't get a job

floridatoday.com The Flame Trench Florida Today's Space Team Blog
The Boeing Company laid off 36 workers today, a mix of engineers and support staff at Kennedy Space Center who received 60-day notices of job termination.

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG Health Care Tax: Union Leaders Outline Big Improvements for All Working Families
Following two days of intense negotiations at the White House, union leaders believe they are on the verge of winning significant improvements for working families in the pending health care reform legislation

FPL suspends plans to upgrade Brevard power plant floridatoday.com FLORIDA TODAY
Florida Power & Light Co. suspended plans to build a $1 billion natural gas plant in Port St. John indefinitely, frustrating environmentalists who fought for decades to clean the nearly half-century-old plant off U.S. 1

The Daily Show Takes Apart The Haiti Earthquake Reactions Of Limbaugh, Robertson, And Maddow (VIDEO) TPM LiveWire
Last night The Daily Show took down the reactions of Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and Rachel Maddow to the earthquake in Haiti. "It's times like these I guess the only good thing that you can say is that whenever something this horrific happens, everyone comes together... everyone... almost everyone..."

Online College Planned for Union Workers - NYTimes.com The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the main umbrella group for the nation’s labor unions, announced on Thursday that it was joining with the National Labor College and the Princeton Review to create an online college for the federation’s 11.5 million members and their families.