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DESCRIPTION:Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:00:44 -0700\nTo: erc@ecologycenter.org\nFrom: 
 karen pickett (by way of Ecology Center)\nSubject: ILWU Solidarity Rally 
 Monday 8 am!\nJOIN US AT THE PORT ON MONDAY!\n\nJoin the Alliance for 
 Sustainable Jobs and the Environment, Earth First!, Rainforest Action 
 Network, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Global Exchange and the Sea 
 Turtle Restoration Project as well as locked-out dock workers for a 
 Solidarity Rally at the picket line.\n\nWe will have an informal press 
 conference, and then join our brothers and sisters in the International 
 Longshore union on the picket line. Show the media and the world that the 
 dock workers, who have supported many progressive causes have the support 
 of community activists far and wide.\n\nMONDAY OCT. 7,  8 AM\nPORT OF 
 OAKLAND\nDirections:\nDowntown Oakland 12th St. exit off freeway.  Go 
 north on 7th St. until the end. (Past Oakland main Post Office, cross 
 Maritime St., to Shoreline Park area. At one point, 7th St. turns right. 
 Watch the signs).\n\nIf you can, bring a sign that states your 
 organization\'s support for the ILWU.  Wear your organization\'s 
 t-shirt.  See below statement of support being circulated in environmental 
 community.\n\nInfo: 925-376-7329\n*******\nALSO come to the solidarity 
 demonstration at the GAP and Payless Shoesource, members of the West Coast 
 Waterfront Coalition (WCWC is the industry association, working with the 
 corporate boss, the Pacific Maritime Association to put pressure on the 
 Bush administration to intervene.)  Payless has just responded in a 
 positive way, so the demo will be principally at the Gap. This demo is part 
 of a coordinated action at cities up and down the west coast.\n\nGather at 
 Payless, march to Gap. Both are near Powell and Market.\nSAT., OCT. 5, 1 
 pm\n\nInfo: Portworkers Solidarity Committee: 
 415-821-6545\n********************************\n\nStatement Of Support For 
 The ILWU From Organizations And Leaders In The Environmental Movement\nThe 
 International Longshore and Warehouse union is engaged in a battle of 
 historic proportions with far-reaching implications for us all in this age 
 of corporate globalization.  For more than 65 years, the ILWU has not only 
 provided crucial services to the people of the U.S., but the union has been 
 on the cutting edge of progressive labor support for other causes, taking 
 action in support of Chilean democracy, political prisoners in the U.S., 
 and strong stances against apartheid and dictatorial regimes, human rights 
 abuses and the WTO, among other issues of global importance.\n\nWe have 
 recently seen the Bush administration exploit the nation\'s fear of 
 terrorism to suspend civil rights, particularly those of political 
 activists. By the same token, the Bush administration, through the Dept. of 
 Homeland Security, has made statement about possible militarization of the 
 ports, threatening the use of troops as scab labor, effectively stripping 
 the ILWU of its collective bargaining rights.\nThe ILUW is negotiating with 
 the Pacific Maritime Association, whose allies in this process are 
 corporate members of the West Coast Waterfront Coalition (WCWC). WCWC 
 members include many multinational corporations that currently have 
 environmental and environmental justice campaigns against them, such as 
 WalMart, the Gap, Home Depot, Chiquita and others.  Those corporations are 
 lobbying the federal government to intervene. An underlying corporate 
 agenda is revealed in efforts to restrict union power on the docks, and is 
 linked to the current wave of globalization and privatization.\nAs 
 progressive advocates of environmental values, we see the links between our 
 agendas and the struggles of labor. We stand in solidarity with our 
 brothers and sisters in the ILWU and fully support their rights to 
 collectively bargain, without government intervention. Further, we urge PMA 
 to bargain fairly and in good faith, and we urge the Bush administration to 
 not intervene in this private sector negotiation process 
 inappropriately.\nAn injury to one is indeed an injury to all.\nCirculated 
 by the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment\n\nplease forward 
 and distribute.\n--\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nSecurity is mostly a 
 superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as 
 a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than 
 outright exposure.\n     --Helen Keller\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/11683.php
SUMMARY:ILWU Solidarity Rally Monday 8 am!
LOCATION:PORT OF OAKLAND\nDirections:\nDowntown Oakland 12th St. exit off freeway.  
 Go north on 7th St. until the end. (Past Oakland main Post Office, cross 
 Maritime St., to Shoreline Park area. At one point, 7th St. turns right. 
 Watch the signs).
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