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Building Bridges Radio - Wal-Mart Discriminates with Liza Featherstone & Judy Gorman Sin Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK...
Posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 7:43pm PST
Mass looting of supermarkets in Rome, Italy A story from today's Guardian (UK)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 2:07pm PST
MUNI Fare Hike Next? Kerry concedes,
SF hotel lockout continues,
Newsom's Prop K con job,
MUNI fare hike next?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 12:25pm PST
Flying Picket Sunday Nov.7 7pm Meet at Powell & Geary (in Union Square) in San Francisco. We'll fly from hotel picket to picket, going to as many as we want to, making noise, meeting hotel workers, showing solidarity, and having fun....
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 10:10pm PST
Reenact Reverend Billy's Crime Against Starbucks Well, Reverend Billy finally got put on trial...in Los Angeles no less. So, while he's stuck in court, throw on a collar and white blazer, slick your hair back, and preach in your local Starbucks!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 8:13am PST
Working America Turns Out for Change Working America Turns Out for Change; Food and Commercial Workers Union Calls for Action to Rebuild Working America...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 10:17am PST
A.N.S.W.E.R. 'Adopts' a Local 2 Hotel—San Francisco Thursdays, October 28 to ???, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
480 Sutter between Powell & Stockton
(in Union Square, a short walk from the Powell St. BART station)...
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 10:11pm PST
S. KOREA. 11.02/Last week's struggle report... ...by Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective (MSSC), nowadays since more than 350 days in strike against mass arrestings and deportation of migrant workers....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 4:56am PST
Hotels lash Newsom The mayor barked. It was the hotel industry's turn to bite back.
Two days after a fiery Mayor Gavin Newsom slammed hotel operators over refusing to end the bitter lockout of 4,300 workers, the director of The City's most prominent hotel trade group declared its "trust in Mayor Newsom has been shaken."...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 4:34pm PST
S.F. union dispute disrupts 2 Waikiki
hotels Honolulu, October 29 – Shortly after 3 am this morning, a group of locked out hotel workers from the Sheraton Palace hotel in San Francisco began picketing the employee entrance of the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian hotels. Currently 4,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been locked-out by 14 hotels in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 10:37pm PDT
Solidarity Begins to Go Nationwide More than 4,000 workers are locked out in SF in their struggle against the multinational hotel chains that are trying to take away their healthcare (while only offering only a measly $.05 raise to tipped and $.20 raise to non-tipped employees). Fellow workers in Hawaii are honoring their picket lines against the Starwood chain, which owns the Sheraton Palace and St. Francis hotels here. This is what needs to continue happening to strengthen working class struggles against global capitalists. ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 1:17pm PDT
Upcoming Flying Pickets: Solidarity with Hotel Workers 7pm HALLOWEEN SUNDAY Flying Picket AND 7pm SUNDAY, November 7th, An Even Bigger Flying Picket
Meet at the corner of Powell & Geary in Union Square...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:28pm PDT
Halloween Critical Mass Halloween Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
6pm, this FRIDAY, October 29th
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza (the foot of Market Street @ Embarcadero)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:44am PDT
Stockton IWW Truckers Report Report and updates on IWW truckers union in Stockton CA....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:32am PDT
10/28SF Labor TV On Healthcare Crisis & MWM Intern Delegates On Thursday October 28 from 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM on San Francisco Comcast Channel 29, Labor On The Job will focus on the crisis in healthcare and the international delegates attending the Million Worker March in Washington D.C. on October 17, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Craiglist controversy: Scab ads violate craig's own posting policies craig made motions as if he was waiting for the SF political community to get behind the locked out workers. now the employers are showing their true colors and even the mayor is with the workers. what is craig gonna do? help the employers shit all over SF? or stand up for community standards?...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:57am PDT
S. KOREA. 10.26/Last Week's Struggle Report... ...by MSSC (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective) - now since 346 days in strike against government's policy of man hunt and mass deportation....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 9:36pm PDT
Nov 3: Peace Movement & Labor Unite to Shut Down Scab Hotels On Nov 3 at 5 p.m., the peace rally at Powell and Market must march to Union Square to join the labor picketlines to build the peace and labor movements as one which it must be for both to win....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 7:13pm PDT
Dashing Mayor to the Rescue San Francisco's millionaire mayor has not said the hotel workers deserve a victory, let's not forget that....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 6:18pm PDT
SF Hotels Refuse to End Labor Lockout SF Hotel Owners refused to end the lockout today and Mayor Newsom is set to join the picketlines at the St Francis this afternoon. More info will be posted later....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:45pm PDT
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