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May Day 2005
May Day is an international day of worker solidarity and anti-capitalist struggle, which began in the United States and became international in response to the repression of Chicago anarchists and eight-hour work day movement in the 1880s....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 3:20pm PDT
5/1-8 This Week is Cover the Uninsured Week
41% of Uninsured Adults Unable to See a Doctor When Needed Due to Cost...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:55pm PDT
Spring rebellions show student-workers, unions and community a potent force
Although carefully concealed or downplayed by the big business media, burgeoning campus rebellions and related struggles are rising to a fever pitch across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and elsewhere....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 5:54pm PDT
Industry without Happiness: On the Guaranteed Minimum Income
A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism while work disappears..A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 7:16am PDT
Yale, Columbia, UMass Amherst grad students fight back
Graduate student-workers and their allies at three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive, spirited work actions this week, April 18-22....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 7:17pm PDT
AgJOBS Stopped for Now
AgJOBS will not be voted on as an amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill. Many Senators preferred not to include AgJOBS and other immigration amendments on the appropriations bill....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 2:25pm PDT
May Day, 60th V-E Day, 60th Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day, 30th Victory in Vietnam Day
As May Day, International Workers Day, May 1, approaches, this year being on a Sunday with larger than usual celebrations and renewals of commitment to the struggle, this year we also commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps and Victory in Europe on May 8, the 30th Anniversary of the Victory of the Workingclass of the World in Vietnam on April 30, 1975 and the 60th Anniversary of the first act of the Cold War, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 1:10am PDT
Update from Zanon workers in Argentina
Over the last week, the workers of the
Zanon factory in Argentina have received numerous death threats. The
wife of a worker was kidnapped, had her face and chest slashed, and was
threatened various times  all in the face of police and governmental
indifference....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 2:47am PDT
UC San Diego Strike on 4/14/05
UC San Diego witnessed 1000 strikers and 300 at a solidarity rally today, April 14, 2005 in a long overdue labor action at all 9 University of California campuses and other UC facilities....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 7:01pm PDT
Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers
UFCW: Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers - Again; Company Police Force Instigate Plant Riot in Assault on Workers; NLRB Orders Reinstatement of Workers, Payment of Lost Wages...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:38am PDT
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'; UFCW Calls on the NLRB to Aggressively Investigate Whether Wal-Mart Bribed Employees to Suppress Worker Support for Union Representation...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:03am PDT
Rhizome Collective Interview on In "The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 16.6MB)
Interview on February 1, 2005 with Scott Kellog from Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas an educational collective that promotes permaculture and sustainable living, projects include Center for Community Organizing, Center for Urban Sustainability, an after school program and a brownfield restoration project. (Part 1 of the special 2 hour show; AK Press interview follows in second hour)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:51pm PDT
8 Days of Sitting In at WashU for a Living Wage
The following is from a student participating in the ongoing sit-in/occupation in the main administrative building of Washington University in St. Louis. The sit-in is in support of campus workers who do not currently receive a living wage. Currently the sit-in has been going on for 8 days(since April 4). Below this message is a list of ways you can take action and a summary of what we've been doing over the past 10 days....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:27pm PDT
BTL:Commemorate May Day, with "Inquisitions," a radio play dramatizing...
...the struggle for workers rights and civil liberties....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 3:58am PDT
Neutering Social Security
Whether it's to dogs or to We the People, George's message is the same: This radical surgery is needed for your own good. If, however, you suspect that something besides your welfare is really motivating him, you're exactly right....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 7:06am PDT
Wal-Mart Admits Their Health Care Program Falls Short
Wal-Mart Admits Their Health Care Program Falls Short
“Wake-Up Wal-Mart” Campaign Asks Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, Inc. to Explain Troubling Statements...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 4:39pm PDT
UFCW Launches New Campaign to 'Wake Up Walmart'
UFCW Launches New Campaign to 'Wake Up Walmart'; America's Campaign to Change Wal-Mart Begins with New Website and Blog...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 9:40am PDT
Take Action:From the Ongoing Sit-In at Washington University in St. Louis
The following is from a student participating in the ongoing sit-in/occupation in the main administrative building of Washington University in St. Louis. The sit-in is in support of campus workers who do not currently receive a living wage. Currently the sit-in has been going on for over 24 hours(as of noon april 5). Below this message is a list of ways you can take action....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Call for Submissions: Fifth Estate's special issue on Wobblies & Work
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Fifth Estate will be joining in this centenary celebration by dedicating its Fall issue to the topic of Wobblies and Work....
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2005 8:09pm PDT