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A utopian society will have learned to decentralize power, to keep it manageable and thus controllable, instead of creating supranational institutions and conglomerates whose size and financial power detach them from any democratic control. Just look at the European Union: In Brussels, an estimated 25,000 lobbyists besiege and work the deputies and commissioners....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 3:04pm PDT
PVFT Local 1936 Delegate Pamela Beth Sexton adult education teacher talks about the effect of the broken levee on the immigrant farmworker community, systemic racism and the role these farmworkers play in our economy....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 7:56pm PDT
A rally was held at the San Francisco Federal Building on March 13, 2023 to connect the toxic rail wreck disaster in East Palestine with the Hunters Point-Treasure Island toxic clean-up scandal. Over $1 billion was spent by the US government to pay for a clean-up of the radioactive dump site and Tetra Tech managers were charged and convicted with fraud in the clean-up. The company also retaliated against health and safety whistleblowers with terminations. It is presently being sued by the DOJ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2023 7:50pm PDT
Three years ago, the leadership of the Namibia Rossing mine workers union were fired by the new owner the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC. The company through corruption and collusion with the SWAPO government has stalled the arbitrations and stalled the labor process to keep the workers unemployed. There will be a hearing on March 28th and actions will take place at the San Francisco Chinese Consulate and other consulates and embassies around the world in solidarity wit...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 12:17pm PDT
San José Peace & Justice Center
48 South 7th Street
San José, CA 95112...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 25, 2023 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2023 11:11pm PDT
online meeting, see website for details...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2023 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2023 1:24pm PDT
San Francisco Chinese Consulate
Geary & Laguna St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2023 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2023 11:24am PDT
ILWU Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room
400 North Point St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 10:30am PST
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 10:16pm PST
If inflation is the result of a distributional conflict, it can also be deliberately stopped by governments. Governments could skim off the higher profits through a tax in order to subsidize energy costs for consumers. Governments could also raise taxes (on the rich, it should be added) as a way to curb economic demand and thus inflation....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2023 7:26am PST
One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2023 7:34pm PST
Berkeley South Branch Library Meeting Room
1901 Russell St, Berkeley...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 4, 2023 2:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 8:23pm PST
WorkWeek covers the Turkey Earthquake, Corruption & Erdogan & Ballad Of Harry Bridges along with the ILWU Local 10 initiated Labor Community March for Mumia Abu-Jamal on 2/16/23....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 11:40am PST
On the one year anniversary of the Ukraine war a rally was held against US intervention....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2023 4:12pm PST
WorkWeek looks at the NTSB report on the toxic railway wreck in East Palestine and the causes of it with railroad engineer Hugh Sawyer who is with Railroad Workers United. He reports on the systemic issues that have led to this and many other derailments, the dangers that the East Palestine community are faced with and the need for nationalization of the railroads....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:02pm PST
The nuking of Palestine, Ohio to remove the toxic waste has exposed the serious and dangerous health and safety conditions in the rail industry and the failure of the government to have oversight and control in this catastrophic disaster. WorkWeek interviews Jerad Cassity who is SMART-TD National Safety Team (NST) Chief of
Safety about this incident and the working conditions and health and safety of railroad workers....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 9:39am PST
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:07am PST
ILWU Local 10 held a stop work action and held a march and rally to demand the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The family of Tyre Nichols also attended and spoke out....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 7:32pm PST
Hundreds of ILWU members and supporters demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal as part of ongoing campaign...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 12:54pm PST
The UFCLP calls for mass worker/labor actions including general strikes to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and racist police terror and murder. We also protest the San Francisco Labor Council bureaucrats who opposed supporting the ILWU Local 10 initiated march and rally. These bureaucrats like the national AFL-CIO leadership continue to support the Democrats and Republicans who support more funding for the police along with their militarization. The AFL-CIO, SEIU, IBT, CWA and other unions continue to ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2023 5:44am PST
Angela Davis spoke out for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal and also for ILWU Local 10 which is having a stop work meeting on 2/16/23 with a rally from their union hall to Harry Bridges Plaza to support the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2023 5:54pm PST