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textProfits Fall, Stores Close: Grocery Chains and Bush's Ownership Society by Counterpunch (reposted)
There are too many U.S. grocery chain stores, said George Whalin, head of Retail Management Consultants, in The Sacramento Bee of June 7. Call it overcapacity in the grocery industry....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:40am PDT
textDemo Today in Oakland in Solidarity with Security Workers by via list and JWJ
Noble Tower Apartments at 1515 Lakeside Drive, Downtown Oakland. Between 4:45 and 5pm, the action will move over to the Park Bellevue Towers at the Corner of Perkins and Bellevue. also, a meeting: Thursday, June 14, 7:00 pm CWA Local 9415 Union Hall...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:51pm PDT
textBush Spares Tiny Island Nations, Bashes Gays Instead by New America Media (reposted)
Gays have a new role: uniting the Republican Party and protecting innocents from diversionary U.S. bombs. Surely the president, the writer says, is finally finding his stride. Sandip Roy is an editor for New America Media and host of "UpFront," a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:47am PDT
imageUCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color
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by ~Bradley
On June 6th, UC Santa Cruz students and workers held multiple rallies and confronted Chancellor Denice Denton to demand affirmative diversity on campus. Workers and students are charging UCSC with active institutional racism and sexism by sustaining hidden systematic policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging students, faculty and workers of color. Affirmative diversity means actively working against the status quo of institutional racism and sexism at UCSC. The Diversity C...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 1:43am PDT
textTrade Unions Say: Free Mumia Now! by Workers Vanguard
The fight to free Mumia confronts the full force of the capitalist state’s system of injustice that originally framed up this innocent man and is still determined to see him dead. Federal and state courts have barred any of the evidence proving his innocence, including the sworn confession of Arnold Beverly that he, not Mumia, shot and killed Faulkner....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 9:51pm PDT
textA Guided Tour of Class War: great interview by Barbara Ehrenreich
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on June 6, 2006, Printed on June 6, 2006 You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you pull up in front of the one with the yellow "for sale" sign on the tiny patch of grass. We step out for a minute, on a balmy late spring afternoon, and she says, "You know what I need out here? Flowers!" And it's true, the nearest neighbor's small por...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:21pm PDT
textAffirmative Diversity Talking Points by Diversity Coalition
STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
imageLaborFest July 2006 Schedule/Calendar
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by Laborfest Organizing Committee
LaborFest is an annual cultural, arts music celebration to commemorate the 1934 San Francsico General Strike. This year it also commemorates the 120th anniversary of Haymarket, the 100th Anniversary of the rebuilding of San Francisco after the earthquake and the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike in 1946....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
textStudents and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity by Diversity Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
imageIWW Fabric store workers make gains with new contract
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by Worker Freedom
By x345292 - Industrial Worker, June 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 11:13am PDT
imageAlbertsons Two - Tiered Structure
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by Grocery Worker
As Albertsons workers in Northern Ca wait their fate to see if they will be among many of the rumored store closers there is one Alberston worker that is not just going to take it!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:24pm PDT
textVicente Fox uses police to threaten Oaxacan schoolteachers on strike by Zapatista Solidarity Coalition
Vicente Fox threatens over 70,000 public schoolteachers in Oaxaca with police repression following a 12 day strike, walkout and encampment in Oaxaca City. Once again V. Fox fulfills his nickname of imperialist lapdog by using the Mexican military to silence worker's dissent.....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:04pm PDT
textProposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes by SF Bay Guardian
SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:30am PDT
textProp. D's misinformation campaign by Belinda Lyon
Opinion from the SF Bay Guardian on Proposition D. Written by Belinda Lyons who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. This op-ed is also endorsed by Steve Fields, cochair of the San Francisco Human Services Network; Bill Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; and Herb Levine, executive director of the Independent Living Resource Center....
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 12:24am PDT
textUS job growth falls in May, amid signs of slowing economy by wsws (reposted)
US employment grew by only 75,000 jobs in May, the smallest increase in seven months and down 40 percent from April’s figure. The rise was considerably smaller than expected, and it comes as only one of numerous indicators point to a slowing American economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:29am PDT
textFamilies of coal miners killed in Kentucky disaster protest exclusion from hearing by wsws (reposted)
More than a dozen family members of the five miners who died in a May 20 explosion at a Harlan County, Kentucky coal mine picketed outside a closed-door hearing Wednesday where federal and state investigators were questioning dozens of executives from Kentucky Darby LLC, as well as mine employees, about the circumstances that led to the tragedy. The families had been barred from attending the hearing and asking any questions because authorities said the state wanted witnesses to be as comfort...
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 11:24am PDT
imageRally for IWW Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers in Berkeley
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by Worker Freedom
The Shattuck Cinema Theater Workers will have their NLRB sponsored union election on Friday, June 16, 2006....
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 3:11am PDT
imageShattuck Cinemas Employees To Vote on Forming a Union
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by Worker Freedom
By Judith Scherr - Berkeley Daily Planet, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 3:54am PDT
textJune 26 Single-Payer SF Labor Council Forum by via list
Why SB 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act is important to Labor...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:18am PDT
text6/1 Greyhound Security Worker Solidarity by via list
Solidarity with Security Workers! Thursdays 5:30-6PM Greyhound Bus Terminal 2103 San Pablo (X 21st St) - Oakland...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:16am PDT
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