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Inside the Mind of a SEIU Political Activist & Insider

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 16th, 2012 at 04:30 PM  | 

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Meet Jessica Shearer, Executive Director of the Healthcare Education Project at 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

In the 14-minute video below, Ms. Shearer, sitting in a panel discussion (with an unknown Tea Party activist beside her), discusses a variety of topics, such as:

  • The current excitement over the OccupyWallSt movement and what it means to the union movement
  • The inability of unions to motivate their own members
  • The half-empty buses to last year’s One Nation rally
  • The election Barack Obama and the subsequent disappointment on his (and the SEIU’s) “caving” on health care reform
  • The failure of Barack Obama’s Organizing for America to realize its potential
  • …and much more

View the video in its entirety. It is an insightful look into the mind of a SEIU activist and insider…a collectivist.

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com

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  • wsg57

    Like, like like…… Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding who is for lunch . The economic collapse was the DIRECT RESULT of government – political operatives – CRA inspired & DOJ lawsuit enforced meddling in the markets to BUY votes with publicly guaranteed Freddie and Fannie loans.
    I was a member of the Teamsters for a few weeks and then worked in a Teamster dominated business for seven years . Corruption and greed in the Teamster organization makes the MOB look like pikers.
    Unions are yet another layer of taxation on the workers they profess to represent and with LESS ROI and accountability than the government.

  • buddyp

    Ahh, the spit-take. Usually predictable, usually funny anyway, and put to good use here:

    • funwithknives

      in any form but we saw this last night on Bair’s news cast. Her jaw was on her chest. Now, how about 10 more in the same vein?
      Was it all a dream?

  • http://www.jacksonlaws.com/ mcclelland

    This is going to be one crazy election. With the amount of money that is going to be spent…the networks that will not criticize lies because of the money they are getting…and the potential candidates…wake me when its December. Just kidding, I love every second.

    Don’t be mislead into thinking the Democrats won’t get pumped up. Everyone is upset. Everyone will vote. Only two parties…for now.

  • johnt

    The woman appears to be an emotional wreck. The standard line about unions being the only life giving force, they gave us weekends, couldn’t have been capitalistic production, etc.
    Gauge the caliber of these people by their linkage to OWS garbage, the guy who introduced the wreck referring to OWS as an “institution”. Status comes easy to parasites and predators.
    Come spring we’re going to have a lot of street action, little of it peaceful.

    • funwithknives

      that labels each and every person they agree with “an activist”, even if same does effectively: Zero.
      My fave was wondering why the Union didn’t bail out/ directly assist her family? What part of the Union’s charter covered that? {“Facts are so pesky and trivial.”}

    • arthurjake

      Maybe she should have remembered who helped her in life and gave her a fresh start. She could be born again and happy and not a train wreck.

  • Roscoe

    Ever wonder what the New Face of Marxism is in America today? Ever think we have no Marxist interested in Collectivization of our wealth and private property. Well, think no more. She is on the below vid. Like all Socialists, she speaks in DOUBLESPEAK and tell “Stories of personal woe is me”. Listen carefully to her story. Her mother and two sisters came out of a bad marriage voting Evangelical Republicans because ONLY the Church came to their aid in poverty. That is the GREAT story here!

    Instead she makes a “pull at your heartstrings” case that the greatest danger in America today are state right-to-work laws and allowing corporations the same political voice as unions. She criticizes our Representative Republic just shy of the point of calling for Anarchy and embraces the Occupy Movement as the greatest movement ever. It is unclear if this union lackey ever had a Civics Class. She equates democracy with Occupy style anarchy and civil disobedience.

    She has a very, VERY telling comment about Obama and support from Foreigners trying to give money to Obama…that the election committee had to keep refusing such foreign support. This is incredibly #1 Corrupt, #2 Illegal and #3 evident that America’s enemies from abroad are trying to put the worst candidate into our highest office.

    Ever wonder if Labor Unions are the Lapdogs of Obama, wonder no more. Damning evidence from the first person. Put aside the personal stories and engaging manner of speak….see the communist for what she is.

  • sbm1

    Or the dumb one, or the idealogue….

    Her mom and sister saw that the union didn’t give a flying F about them, and that when her mom turned to a church, they immediately took her in, housed them, clothed them and fed them, in a way that a community does…it lead to her mom and sister becoming republican and distrustful of the union movement which left them in the lurch…..

    Well, this one had to rebel….had to prove that there were “good and caring” unions out there….that even though private charity and compassion seemed to work for her mom, there is no way that could work for real….it had to be institutionalized…and had to be run by the state….

    You can feel her fighting with her internal understanding that her cause is quixotic…..but she fights against it with all her idealogue might…..

    at least she seems sincere, and not someone who just parrots the party line….which is why I can stand the loonies at firedoglake more than the dem operatives at Dailykos if I need to read a lefty site.

  • oneirishman

    What did her mother think the union was going to do for there family? Ovious attempt to humanize her cause. I got the feeling she wanted housing, income and stability in there hour of need, and how unjust of the world. She thinks that sharing this hardship makes her marsist ideals worthy to those in attendance. Now she has obviously projected all of those feelings into the election of Obama. Can’t wait to see the “visceral” reaction when he’s voted out in the largest landslide in history!

  • skycruiser

    I was caught up short by the opening statement of her story as she brought her *home* to life – - – “in 1991 the townhouse my mother, myself and 2 sisters lived in went into forecloser.”
    She goes on to say the union wouldn’t respond – no home, not even a casserole – it’s not clear what she expected, but she never mentions *work*.
    I realize she was a child when this happened, but she’s an adult now as she relates her story and should know someone has to take responsibility – every thing doesn’t just happen TO them. And, some one help me out here, I don’t understand how the union is responsible for events in their private life. Unable to pay the mortgage, bad marriage, homelessness…she still thinks the union should get involved? That’s scary.
    She cannot live her life without someone else to take care if her. She needs the big union and the big government to take charge. She has the mentality of a helpless child.

  • skycruiser

    Oops! I misspelled foreclosure. I saw how funny that looked just as I hit send.