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5/6 General Strike in Austria-1st in 50 yrs For the first time in 50 years, Austrian workers went on general strike, with 1 million of the 1.4 million trade union members participating. The issue was pensions in a country where the retirement age is 59 for men and 57 for women....
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2003 8:19pm PDT
Starfucks® sues tiny First Nations coffeeshop for "trademark infringement"! Three years ago, Darin Swanson and his partners christened their HaidaBucks cafe. Now the coffee shop in the Queen Charlotte Islands (British Columbia, Canada) is being sued by the Starbucks company, which says the name is too familiar to their own. "I guess they have a problem with the word 'bucks' in our name. They're letting us use the word Haida -- nice of them," Swanson said. Swanson and his partners -- all members of the Haida Nation -- insist they have aboriginal rights to t...
Posted: Sat, May 10, 2003 2:05pm PDT
Texas Young Communist League launches new website The Young Communist League of Texas (TX-YCL) has recently launched a new website. The website boasts several interactive features; users may vote in online polls, place events on the TX-YCL web calendar, and even submit articles for publishing....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2003 9:12pm PDT
Why Libertarians support the prostitution of children "we call for the repeal of all laws that restrict anyone, including children, from engaging in voluntary exchanges of goods, services, or information regarding human sexuality..."...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 6:13pm PDT
Non-Performance Based Executive Compensation According to senior resident scholar James Strawman - "When the economic wind is at your back, it's easier to make lots of money. In tough times, with a declining revenue pie, businesses need great managers more than ever. How to attract them? Give them the biggest piece of pie. Still hungry? Hand them the spatula..."...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 10:13pm PDT
BTL:Labor Movement Speaks Out Against Bush Administration's... ...Post-9/11 Targeting of Immigrants. John Wilhelm, president of the International Union of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, speech excerpt produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 6:15am PDT
PHOTOSETS OF TURKISH QUAKE PROTESTS AND SCHOOL DORMITORY Photosets with hundreds of photos related to the Turkish earthquake are available at the following URLs. Some photos duplicate:
*Photos of Celtiksuyu, where the school dormitory collapsed:
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Celtiksuyu&n=100&c=news_photos
*Photos of Bingol, scene of protests:
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Bingol&n=100&c=news_photos...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 1:55pm PDT
Apartheid Claims Task Force Sues Gold Fields for Sub-human Conditions and Uranium Water "Gold Fields appears to have cared more about their profits that they did about their employees... all of whom were forced to live in and work under sub-human conditions, exposed to dangerous substances and without adequate safety equipment and facilities. And, the only reason for this was that the labourers were 'black'. "ACT demands that Gold Fields produce 'secret' reports about the dangerous conditions in the mines, including uranium contaminated water. Gold mine workers have be...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 1:16am PDT
DESPERATE SARS-HIT HONG KONG RESORTS TO INTERNET TO SAVE ITS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM As high school students head for their summer exams in the midst of school closures forced by Sars, the Hong Kong authorities have accepted an offer from Edinburgh's Interactive University to make its online teaching package available to 30,000 students. The online materials will enable the China-based students to study from home, rather than risk infection by attending classes....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 1:10am PDT
May Day General Strike in Israel On May Day, 2003, a general strike shut down Israel....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 9:57pm PDT
Mayor Willie Brown Declares May 1st Levi Strauss Day In a glaring omission of any mention of International Workers' Day, Mayor Willie Brown announced that May 1st is now Levi Strauss Day....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 12:36pm PDT
Why is America's Economy Failing? Who are among America's Most Wanted responsible for collapsing our economy? Click the link below and find out yourself....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 12:23pm PDT
Dozens feared dead in South African May Day bus crash Up to 80 people are feared dead after a coach carrying trade union members plunged into a reservoir in central South Africa on its way toa worker's May Day festival....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 4:33am PDT
5/1 Possible Israeli General Strike Israel may have a general strike on Thursday, International Workers Day, May 1, which labor leader Amir Peretz promises to be the "largest strike in the history of Israel.."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2003 1:10am PDT
Berkeley MayDay Reclaim the Streets Come celebrate the coming of Spring, International Workers' Day, and the reclaiming of our streets for people, not for cars or profit!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2003 12:11am PDT
RONALD MCDONALD FORCED TO COUGH UP 16.5 BIG MACS TO POMONA WOMAN HE DEFRAUDED The now-dying McDonald's Corporation forced out Sandra Darling, who had six well-performing Southern California restaurants in the early 1990s, because she criticized some of its policies. Her victorious suit contended that by the time her franchise renewal came up, the Hamburglar had instituted a policy giving it the option of repurchasing the highest-performing franchises. Ronald McDonald refused to back loan applications, lowered Darling's store quality ratings and opened competing restaur...
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2003 10:37pm PDT
We will always be rebels they say, “we seize power from above and then we change things;” while we say: from below, without any desire to seize power, we struggle....
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2003 8:43pm PDT
ANTICHRIST BACKS ''RIGHT'' OF NIKE TO PUBLICLY LIE ABOUT ITS SWEATSHOPS The case against Nike was sent to the US Supreme Court after California’s Supreme Court narrowly ruled last May that Nike could be liable for false public claims about working conditions in its factories abroad, according to the Christian Science Monitor. With the Antichrist on its side, Nike is arguing that because their lies were not produced in formal advertisements they are protected as free speech. Yes, the same Antichrist who has brought us the Patriot Act to suppress individual liberti...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2003 7:57am PDT
YOU make me sick Some of the Middle east discussions on SF indy show that even progessve are just small little colinzers waiting to get out of the "progressive" closet....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2003 11:10am PDT
Bay Area IWW Organizing Victory East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse workers vote 13-0 to officially unionize with the Bay Area IWW....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2003 10:00pm PDT
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