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May Day Strike for Immigrant Rights in the Beach Flats 
On Monday, May 1st, International Workers Day, thousands of Santa Cruz residents marched from Beach Flats Park to the town clock and on to San Lorenzo Park. At the town clock, the march from the Beach Flats met up with thousands of people who marched from the base of the UCSC campus....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 12:55am PDT
May Day Strike for Immigrant Rights at UC Santa Cruz 
On Monday, May 1st, International Workers Day, students and workers at UC Santa Cruz walked picket lines at the base of campus and west entrance to support the rights of immigrants and all people. In the United States, grassroots organizers of May Day 2006 called for a day of, "No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling" to help illustrate the critical role that migrants play in the United States and global economy....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:32pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from Bakersfeild cops preventing march grabing marchers (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) Two Calls from Bakersfeild where cops are preventing march and start arresting. caller was aperently grabbed by cops....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from the marches San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) Callins to Free radio Santa Cruz from San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz including Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Payso and FRSC programmers Sandino and Danielsan....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:41pm PDT
May Day 2006 KPFA 94.1 FM News All Day on First Day of 2d US Revolution Happy May Day! Today, the First Day of the Second American Revolution and hopefully the First Worldwide Socialist Revolution, America's first national General Strike will be broadcast all day on KPFA, 94.1 FM. See below for details....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:46am PDT
Injured Workers To Rally In Sacramento On Workers Memorial Day Hundreds of injured workers will be rallying in Sacramento at the state capitol on Workers
Memoiral Day for injured workers and workers killed on the job. The rally will start at 11:00 AM
on the south steps of the State Capitol...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 10:30am PDT
May 1st International Workers Day: Actions on the California Central Coast Salinas, Watsonville, Seaside and Santa Cruz...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:06pm PDT
SF Grocery Workers Win at City Hall ! On Tuesday, 25 April 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously pass the Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:01pm PDT
4/28SF Labor TV Programming On Workers Who Rebuilt SF After The Quake The labor TV show "Labor On The Job" produced by the Labor Video Project will program a show
on the commemoration of the rebuilding of San Francisco and the role of labor with professor Lee
Davis....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 1:40pm PDT
5/18 SF Report On Labor Media From South Africa To Turkey Labor media producer Steve Zeltzer will report on the use of labor media in Africa and Turkey at a
a forum at New College of California on Thursday May 18, 2006 at 7:00PM. He will also screen
video....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 4:57pm PDT
4/21 E. Bay Labor And Immigrants Unite Rally At IBT 70 East bay labor councils and immigrant rights groups will discuss and rally at IBT Local 70 hall....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 12:39pm PDT
Labor Video On The Fight For Pay Equity Justice At UC (video/quicktime 44.6MB) This program is part of presentation on October 8-9 2005 by Maurice G. Freedman, past president of the American
Library Association about pay equity and the state of librarian workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 11:15am PDT
WAJE Hands Over 6,000 Petition Signatures (audio/mpeg 2.2MB) Photos & Audio (3 min 12 sec) of Nora Hochman and Victor Medina from the Working Alliance for a Just Economy (WAJE) as the group turned over thousands of signatures at City Hall to be verified in the ballot initiative process. If enough signatures qualify, the minimum wage hike will go before the voters in November....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:37pm PDT
SF Hearing For Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance Monday, 17 April: Dozens of San Francisco grocery store workers and union leaders testified before the Board of Supervisors Committee on City Operations in support of the proposed Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 3:40pm PDT
STRIKE AVERTED, BUT SCHOOLS STILL CLOSED TOMORROW!!! Just minutes ago the Oakland Education Association reps confirmed that they have reached a settlement and while teachers will be going to work tomorrow, it is still a non-student day ....because the district cannot assure that everyone will get the word and they cannot guarantee safe staffing levels. An extra day will probably be added at the end of the school year....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 12:40am PDT
Free Mind Media's May Day Anniversary 
FREE MIND MEDIA 1ST ANIVERSARY PARTY
April 29th HUGE BLOWOUT BOOKSALE 9-4pm
PARTY 4pm – 7pm
Guest Speakers:
Harjit Gil - Industrial Workers of the World
Davin Cardenas - Graton Day Laborers
Jack Gerson – Comunications Chair of the Oakland Educators Association
Music: Jonh Courage and Friends TBA
Puppet Show: Free Mind Media “A Year in Review”...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 9:40pm PDT
Oakland Schools Strike tomorrow: Ward caves in: No Scabs Oakland Adult school still needs picketeers...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:15pm PDT
The 5th Annual May Day Labor Film Festival "Reel Work" 
The 5th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with sixteen different events starting Thursday April 20, and ending May 1st, International Workers' Day. This year's festival includes the regional premier screening of Sir! No Sir! a film about rank-and-file GI resistance to the Vietnam War as well as Meeting Face to Face, a film partially funded by Reel Work which depicts the historic nationwide visit of Iraqi labor union leaders to the US in 2005. Highlights o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:07pm PDT
Hearing on San Francisco Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance SF Board of Supervisors will conduct a hearing on the proposed "Grocery Workers Retention Ordinance" on Monday, 17 April. The Ordinance, if adopted, will help preserve the jobs of thousands of grocery store employees in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 6:12pm PDT
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