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Kroger: Strikes contributed to $337.4 million quarterly loss Kroger Co. said Tuesday that labor unrest, including a 4 1/2 monthlong strike in southern California, contributed to a loss of $337.4 million in the fourth quarter. The retail grocer also said it expects its 2004 results to be lower than in 2003. Kroger is the parent of the Valley's Fry's food stores....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:10am PST
FBI arrests Caltech student in anti-SUV arson The FBI arrested a California Institute of Technology student Tuesday for investigation of arson and vandalism that destroyed or damaged 125 sport utility vehicles at San Gabriel Valley car dealerships and homes last year in apparent support of radical environmentalism....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:05am PST
A HEROIC DEFENSE AND A CRUEL SYSTEM The southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current "jobless recovery."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:06pm PST
How come progressive California can't stop Schwarzenegger? Whatever happened to enlightened California?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 3:46pm PST
Sept: Globalization and the Env'tal Justice Movement: Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement:
An ASLE/UAS Symposium
September 23-25, 2004, Tucson, AZ (Call for Papers by May 31)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:39pm PST
"Free Sherman Austin" - article in SF BayView article written by a lawyer printed in SF BayView...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 5:44pm PST
Surrender at the Supermarket: The national failure of the grocery workers' union The four-and-a-half-month-long Southern California grocery strike illustrated perfectly the basic time-tested strategy of a successful labor action: Organize. Promote solidarity. Prepare for a long fight. Stay the course no matter how deep the financial hardship. Outlast the other side by a day....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 4:44pm PST
¡No Quiero Taco Bell! Join Farmworkers at Taco Bell's Irvine Headquarters to Demand a Living Wage and Humane Working Conditions...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 4:50pm PST
Gira de las maquilas de Tijuana Se invita a participar en una gira sobre las condiciones y luchas de los y
las trabajadoras de la Maquila...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 1:33pm PST
Tour to Tijuana Maquiladoras You are invited to learn about Tijuana maquiladora workers' conditions and struggles...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 1:32pm PST
CWA 9415 - February Newsletter - Live Wire The first edition of "Live Wire," CWA Local 9415's newsletter. February 2004...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 10:03pm PST
HALT! The Media-Mental-Mind-Meld, Let the Peoples Votes, Voices BE Heard 
Electability is a Myth, a Tall Tale deliberately perpetuated by the status-quo, who Lust the Dough instead of Public Service to Promote the General Wellfare, NOT Promote the Generals and More WARfare !THEIR IS NO PROOF A POWERFUL PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM PUSHING Peace, Progress, Prosperity in the People's Public Interest is not Iminently Imperative and Highly Likely to sweep down and all around our Hijacked process and goverment to Righteously install the FIRST! Workers White House.
In fact the...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 3:57pm PST
Safeway's sales dip slightly The target of a massive strike for health care and a local boycott campaign, Safeway is now reporting lower same store sales. Unions announced today that they will begin a comprehensive statewide boycott of Safeway....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 4:21pm PST
Sec of State Shelley Calls on Diebold to to Turn Over its Software Code for Evaluation Shelley is not asking for changes to Diebold's software, but he called on the company to turn over its software code so it could be evaluated by independent experts chosen by the state. Shelley also is requiring random state testing of all electronic voting systems on election day to ensure ballots are accurately recorded....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 10:42pm PST
Green Presidential Hopefuls to Debate @ USC 3 Green Presidential Candidates will debate @ USC February 14 from 1 to 2:30 p.m....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:22am PST
David Crosby's New Song: "The Enron Song" - * LIVE * KPFK (audio/mpeg 5.8MB) David Crosby was interviewed by Michael Slate on "Beneath The Surface," KPFK, 90.7 FM Los Angeles; they speak about current events, corruption like Enron and at roughly the 16 minute mark in this 32kbps mp3 Crosby sings his new song tentatively titled "The Enron Song"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 9:11pm PST
UPDATE ON SHERMAN AUSTIN * UPDATE ON SHERMAN AUSTIN * (Personal experience, with some added info at the end)...
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 12:24pm PST
Hidden payments may shape grocery strike outcome The outcome of the Southern California grocery clerks strike may depend less on a meeting of the minds between employers and employees than on an obscure grocery business practice that has become so pervasive it has sapped the competitive strength of three of the largest grocery chains in America....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:39am PST
How to support SHERMAN AUSTIN 20 year-old activist and webmaster Sherman Austin remains in federal prison for information another youth had on his website, which was linked to Sherman's site. Why should you care about this?...
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2003 8:12pm PDT