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DESCRIPTION:2/5/19 SF Forum "Time For A General Strike”   And The Lessons Of The 1919 
 Seattle General Strike\n\nPublic Forum\nTuesday February 5, 2019 7:00 
 PM\nBernal Library\n500 Cortland St.\nSan Francisco, CA\n\n\nThe General 
 Strike is becoming again relevant after many decades. The president of the 
 CWA-Association of Flight Attendants Sara Nelson on the commemoration of 
 MLK anniversary called for organizing a general strike to carry out the 
 goals of MLK and also against the attack on millions of public workers and 
 contract workers by the Trump administration.\nThe reactionary vicious 
 assault of Federal workers ordering over 500,000 to work without pay is 
 tantamount to slave labor prior to the US civil war. The 13th amendment of 
 the Constitution passed to prevent the re-institution of slavery banned 
 this practice yet the Trump administration is now bringing it back. The 
 mass action of airline air traffic controllers calling in sick actually 
 ended temporarily the Federal government shutdown after La Guardia airport 
 slowed traffic and banned corporate planes from operating during the 
 emergency.\nIt is important that working people in the US learn from our 
 general strikes in our  country. The last general strike in America was in 
 1946 in Oakland and the successful 1934 strike of ILWU longshore workers 
 and west coast maritime workers in 1934 broke the back of the bosses and 
 allowed hundreds of thousands of workers to organize in Northern 
 California. The power of the ILWU still remains and it continues to take 
 political job action including against the war in Iraq and the racist 
 police murders.\nThis is also the 100th anniversary of the Settle general 
 strike in February 6, 1919 which took place after the Russian 
 revolution.\nToday, the Trump government is planning to call a national 
 emergecy to carry out his program to usurp the Congress and people of the 
 United States. They are also planning an invasion of Venezuela. He wants a 
 dictatorship and he is intent on creating an “emergency” to help push 
 his drive for dictatorship along. The Democrats and Republicans will not 
 protect us from the rise of fascism since this is a system problem. On 
 February 15 when Trump plans to possibly push a national emergency we need 
 to organize now for mass collective action.\nThis forum will look at the 
 lessons of the Seattle general strike, past strikes and the struggle today 
 for a general strike.\n\nSponsored by\nUnited Public Workers For 
 Action\nwww.upwa.info\nFor information\ninfo(at)upwa.info\n(415) 
 533-5942‬\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/29/18820889.php
SUMMARY:"Time For A General Strike” & Lessons Of The 1919 Seattle General Strike On The 100th Ann
LOCATION:Bernal Heights Library\n500 Cortland St.\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/29/18820889.php
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