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DESCRIPTION:There will be an important meeting at ILWU Local 10 to organize support for 
 the 600 Boron miners, now locked out in the Mojave Desert by global mining 
 giant Rio Tinto for nearly 3 months. \n\nThis solidarity committee will be 
 similar to ones organized in the Bay Area in the past to support the ILWU 
 in the 2002 employer lockout, the Charleston 5 defense committee, the 
 sacked Liverpool dockers and the anti-apartheid struggle. \n\nMembers of 
 all ILWU locals and retirees are invited to participate as well as other 
 union members, antiwar activists and May Day organizers. \n\nThe ILWU 
 miners' struggle is at a critical stage and solidarity actions at this 
 point could turn the tide in favor of the union. The alternative would be a 
 defeat not only for a local of arguably the most militant union in this 
 country, but could become another PATCO, spreading dire consequences for 
 the rest of the ILWU and organized labor. \n\nPlease make every effort to 
 attend. Victory to the Boron miners!\n\n\n\n7 PM, WEDNESDAY APRIL 
 28\n\nILWU LOCAL 10, Henry Schmidt room\n400 North Point St.\nSan 
 Francisco\n\nBoron miners will be in attendance, and will give a report on 
 the critical situation they face.\n\n\n\nMAY DAY APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY FROM 
 JACK HEYMAN, ILWU LOCAL 10:\n\nDear Comrades,\n \nAs you may know, 600 ILWU 
 borate miners employed by Rio Tinto in  Boron, California have been locked 
 out and are waging a desparate  struggle. May Day will be the 3rd month of 
 the lockout, an employer  strike against the union. Rio Tinto, a global 
 mining giant, has  declared class war against the most militant union in 
 the United  States, the ILWU.  Rio Tinto, which was nurtured under Franco's 
  fascist dictatorship in Spain, has earned a reputation as rapacious  
 capitalists who evict indigenous peoples off their resource-rich land,  
 destroy the environment and bust trade unions. This is a struggle  which 
 workers in the U.S. can not lose because after the miners, the  longshore 
 workers will be next and then the organized labor movement.  It is similar 
 to the 1980 PATCO air controllers' strike broken by  President Ronald 
 Reagan. Workers of the world must stand together on  May Day against this 
 brutal attack. As the old syndicalist slogan  goes:  "An injury to one is 
 an injury to all!"\n\nI implore you in the spirit of working class 
 militants on the  barricades, carry a banner on May Day in solidarity with 
 the locked  out miners in Boron, California. On May Day 2008, the ILWU 
 shutdown  ALL West Coast ports to protest the imperialist war in 
 Afghanistan and  Iraq demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. 
 Supporters of  the ILWU around the world held banners and posters at May 
 Day rallies  in support of our strike, took photos and sent them to us. 
 Could you  please do the same to help build morale for our miners at a 
 critical  moment of this struggle and build international labor 
 solidarity?\n \nVictory to the ILWU 
 miners!\n\nJack\njackheyman@comcast.net\n\nP.S. You can also fax solidarity 
 greetings to\n\nILWU Local 30 760-762-5542\n \nILWU Local 10  
 415-441-0610\n\nILWU International  415-775-1302\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/25/18645659.php
SUMMARY:Boron Miners Strike Solidarity Committee
LOCATION:ILWU LOCAL 10, Henry Schmidt room\n400 North Point St.\nSan Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/25/18645659.php
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