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Protest REI's ties to Sweatshop Labor! Wednesday, May 12, at 11pm, there will be a community picket out in front of the San Francisco REI office. REI is refusing to pay a measly $27,000 owed its factory workers as well as refusing to disclose its records....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:50am PDT
Tomorrow Night: Televising the Revolution at El RIo! Come this Tuesday Night, see the incredible film, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and raise money for the San Francisco Day Labor Program!...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:34am PDT
Oakland Trucker Strike May Be Over... After taking off for the afternoon, I returned tonight around 8:30pm to find a few dozen workers still talking about the strike and what to do next. Essentially the strike was broken up this afternoon when the Port of Oakland went to court to obtain an injunction "against the continuing unlawful disruption of transportation in the harbor area"....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 9:51pm PDT
Update: Port authorities give strikers order to leave Today at around 1pm Port Authorities tried to give strikers legal papers to force them to leave Port property(aka the APL main gate where they are picketing)....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 2:03pm PDT
5/7 Update: Oakland Truckers Strike Not Over Yet, Solidarity Needed After about 3 hours of negotiations at the Port of
Oakland building tonight on 530 Water St, it became
apparent that a large number of trucking companies
were still not willing to offer the truckers what they
have been asking for since the strike began...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 12:43am PDT
Telephone Workers March for Justice @ SBC - pics from the march and rally 
The message went out that CWA "Will Strike If Provoked."...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 8:51pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 4 
Strike continues despite media reports that state otherwise....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Port of Oakland Press Release Claiming Trucker Reached an Agreement with the Port 
This is the press release that folks over at the Port of Oakland sent out without even allowing the workers to decide whether or not they agreed to the supposed agreement or not....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:11am PDT
Police, Port Authorities, and Companies Attempt to Force Strikers Back To Work 
Pictures and a reportback on the role that the Port of Oakland authorities, the Police, and the Oakland Tribune played in the strike today, Wednesday May 5th. A more extensive report will be written later in the week....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 6:44am PDT
DASW Labor Solidarity Working Group Call to Rally Today 5/6 at 4pm 
CALL to SUPPORT STRIKING INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS
RALLY/PICKET/RAISE FISTS - THURSDAY May 6th, 4 pm
Port of Oakland Commission Offices, 530 Water St., Jack London Square
(Striking Truckers Representatives will be negotiatiing with the companies starting at 5pm inside 530 Water St.)...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 4:10am PDT
Teamster's Informational Flyers for Oakland Truck Driver Strike 
2 informational flyers handed out by the Teamsters today at the APL gate. One is about the profits that the steamships are making, and one is about the profits the oil companies have been making....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:50am PDT
Truckers' strike continues; community support needed The truckers' strike is still going, despite an inaccurate report announcing that truckers would return to work Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:42am PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 3 
Independent truckers carry their strike into the fourth day!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 8:34pm PDT
Call for Solidarity Meeting at APL Gate, Oakland Docks at 6pm Whether that means talking to other folks you know and encouraging them to visit the strikers at the Oakland Docks, calling that friends of yours who works for the corporate media, or even just forwarding this call to action to your friends....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:29am PDT
Tuesday Night @ the Oakland Docks 
Tues night at the Oakland docks...scab trucks came in, and left later by police escort , while the truckers who hold the contracts watch on the sidelines and protest loudly at the scandal before their eyes....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 12:53am PDT
URGENT: Support striking truck drivers in Oakland! Call for demonstration of community support...
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 11:24pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 2 
Independent truck drivers continue their strike into the third day....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 3:23pm PDT
Truck Drivers Still on Strike at Oakland Port 
I will post more of a reportback later in the week. I am busy posting pics, updating the main story, and spending time at the docks. Come out and join the strikers for a while if you can. The strike is on indefinitely, as the workers have commited to stay out in solidarity until all the drivers get the same deal. If the workers decide to settle or any authorities decide to attack the strikers I will try and post an update within a half hour(or get someone else too)....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 3:23pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Independent owner/operators on the West Coast carry their strike through the weekend. Signs of growing solidarity felt in the Oakland area and up and down the Coast....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:35pm PDT
Workers News from the Central Valley 
19 farm workers exposed to deadly nerve-gas pesticide, three workers still hospitalized in guarded condition...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 3:36pm PDT
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