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May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs - Historia del Primero de Mayo 
To Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Oscar Neebe. Your courage and sacrifice for the emancipation of labor - without borders - will never be forgotten....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 8:58am PDT
Help Distribute Radical Bilingual May Day Pamplet 
Individuals involved with Arizona Indymedia, San Diego Indymedia and Delete the Border produced this bilingual pamplet, providing a radical analysis between May Day and pro-immigrant actions. Please distribute widely. It is an 11'' x 17'' pdf that is easy to print and fold. You can include local details in the document before you print it....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 1:14am PDT
US Revives McCarthy-era Powers for Port Workers WASHINGTON, April 27, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The Bush administration is reviving the McCarthy-era powers to check hundreds of thousands of port workers for possible terrorist links, a British influential industry newspaper reported on Thursday, April 27....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 7:13pm 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 Day - the Real Labor Day May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 9:15pm PDT
May Day Remembered "There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"
August Spies, Haymarket Martyr
This poem by Susan Kling, written in 1990, recalls the roots of Mayday, born in the USA, in our struggle for the eight hour day....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 9:10pm PDT
Mexico 2 Workers Killed in Steel Strike Two striking Mexican steelworkers died and at least 41 were injured in a confrontation with hundreds of police agents in Michoacan on Apr. 20....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:27pm 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
Berkeley Honda's worker strike ends BERKELEY — A 10-month strike at Berkeley Honda is over, following a Monday night vote by union members and Teamsters to accept a new contract.
Members of the East Bay Automotive Machinists Lodge 1546 and Teamsters Local 78 voted 14-1 to accept a five-year contract, said Berkeley Honda general manager Steve Haworth....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 7:26am PDT
The End of Security The state has a social nature and isn't only a security and power state. If the state is reduced to a trough or waterboy for capital, the class compromise is dissolved and justice becomes an abstraction. Neoliberal myths legitimate the growing precariusness....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 6:03am PDT
Union leader jailed for New York City transit strike Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint was jailed in New York City Monday, after a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge sentenced him to 10 days imprisonment and fined the union local $2.5 million for carrying out the 60-hour strike last December....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 10:06pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: May Day Special: Worker Songs Vol1 (audio/mpeg 25.8MB) A May Day Special for all the workers bustin their asses in wage slave jobs
featuring songs and commentary by The Pinkos, Rube Waddel, U Utah Phillips, Fiffteen, Jon Lee, Tree more..
Happy May Day!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 7:38am 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
NYC Union Chief Remains Defiant Hours Before Heading to Jail for Leading Transit Strike Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system for a little more than two days. Hours before heading jail, Toussaint joins us in our firehouse studio to discuss the strike, the future of the union and what he calls the "extortionist media."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:36am PDT
Pension cuts and inequality wiping out retirement for American workers For a growing number of US workers, dreams of a decent retirement are quickly evaporating as companies shift retirement costs onto workers, in the form of deductions from already declining wages, in order to maintain profits in a competitive global economy....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:26am PDT
Commander: Contractors violating U.S. trafficking laws WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq has ordered sweeping changes for privatized military support operations after confirming violations of human-trafficking laws and other abuses by contractors involving possibly thousands of foreign workers on American bases, according to records obtained by the Chicago Tribune....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 11:11pm 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
Exposing the UFCW...Part 1 & 2 Rumors are nasty little buggars that have a way of becoming snippets of truth, or are just pesky pieces of bullshit causing people problems. Kind of like a rash, the minor chafing a guy gets when...well all you guys know what i'm talking about....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:38pm 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
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