Today's Teamster News 05.21.12

States Unite Against Citizens United  Associated Press   ...wenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending...
Emergency law, celebrity support giving oxygen to Quebec protesters  The Globe and Mail   ...Quebec’s emergency law aimed at reining in protest marches and restoring social peace failed to stop outbursts of violence during its first test over the weekend, while the months-long student movement gained some big-name support on the global stage....And Montreal band Arcade Fire sported the red squares while performing alongside Mick Jagger on NBC’s Saturday Night Live...
Greek cash withdrawals raise fear of run on bank  Los Angeles Times   ... Middle-class Greeks have already borne the brunt of the financial crisis since it exploded more than two years ago and probably will feel the most pain if the country ends up being booted from the 17-nation Eurozone...
Mississippi prison riot leaves guard dead, 8 hurt  Associated Press   ...It's a privately run facility used to hold illegal immigrants for the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
Koch Operative Steered $55 Million To Front Groups Airing Ads Against Democrats; Ads Assailed Candidates Over Abortion, 9/11, Medicare  Republic Report   ...a new document filed with the IRS reveals how the Koch political machine funneled over $54.5 million in previously undisclosed funds to a litany of front groups designed to smear Democrats...
A Sea of Robin Hoods Tell the G8, "It's Time to Tax Wall Street!"  PR Watch   ...Thousands of nurses from around the world descended upon Daley Plaza, in the heart of Chicago on May 18, to demand that the richest nations in the world put an end to austerity politics and start asking the people who collapsed the global economy to do more to "heal the world."...