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Interview with Valerie Orth on Creating Sweatshop-Free Communities (audio/mpeg 9.1MB)
Valerie Orth is working on a campaign to create "Sweat Free communities" -- passing government procurement legislation that bans sweatshop-produced goods here in the bay area. Before joining Global Exchange, Valerie represented industrial laundry workers in California with UNITE Local 75....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 10:14am PDT
Stop The War - Bring The Troops Home Now! Labor anti-war rally (audio/mpeg 10.5MB)
sounds from the March 19 labor rally at Dolores Park, San Francisco, on the second anniversary of the war on Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 9:27pm PST
AK Press Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 42.7MB)
Interview on February 1, 2005 with Lani Riccobuono and Zach Blue from AK Press, "a workers’ co-operative wholly owned by its members. All decision-making, including which titles we distribute and what we publish, is made collectively. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. The sorts of books we stock are less and less availab...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:40pm PST
Inkworks Press on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 20.1MB)
Interview on Feb 15, 2005 with Bernard and Melissa from Inkworks Press in Berkeley, CA, 'a worker-managed union shop which has proven to be an innovative organization conducting business in a cooperative and democratic manner.'...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 3:15pm PST
UC Bargaining Committee Hears from Workers, Students, Politicians and Community Members (audio/mpeg 1.5MB)
thirty minutes of audio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:29pm PST
Safeway Grocery Workers' Rally (audio/mpeg 3.2MB)
excerpts from Saturday's grocery worker rally and march at the Market/Duboce Safeway Friday, Oct 15th; the rally was held to kick off the start of new contract negotiations for the NoCal grocery workers; (7 minutes)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 8:21pm PDT
Hotel Picket Audio from after the Union Square Rally (audio/x-wav 9.4MB)
Sounds and Interviews from the Westin St. Francis picket line after the UNITE/HERE Local 2 rally in Union Square...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:00am PDT
Michael Kozar of The Bay Area Radical Health Collective (audio/x-wav 8.4MB)
Calling for a November 3rd march for universal health care -starting in Justin Herman Plaza at 9am, Marching through the Tenderloin, and Converging at the Feder...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:00am PDT
Nancy Kaeler about the Million Worker March (audio/x-wav 4.3MB)
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Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:00am PDT
More Audio from Hotel pickets on 10/10 (audio/x-wav 18.0MB)
A call was put out on indybay a few days in advance and as a result many people showed up sunday night (10/10) to express their support for the striking and locked out hotel workers. These are some of the sounds from the night's activities. All the cuts are short....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 11:53pm PDT