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.... a racially-worded poster accuses a woman of spreading AIDS by doing fellatio....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:12am PST
Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council. The hotels include the Biltmore, Hyatt Regency, Beverly Wilshire, Westin Bonaventure, Wilshire Grand, St. Regis, Sheraton Universal, Hyatt West Hollywood and Century Plaza.
A Nov. 11 community meeting at the UNITE union hall brought together community and union leaders to help plan strategy fo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:02pm PST
Hotel workers at 14 San Francisco luxury hotels are in the sixth week of a lockout that began on October 1. The action by the hotels was in response to a strike launched September 29 by1,400 members of Local 2 of the Union of Needle Trades Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (UNITE HERE) against the Hilton, Argent, Mark Hopkins and Crowne Plaza hotels....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:00pm PST
This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line
every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making
concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:14pm PST
Basically, there are five safeguards of the Constitution: Executive, Judicial, Legislative, Press, and the People. America's defense of the Constitution is now in the hands of the People. Poetic Irony, that now that those that want it will now have to suffer for it, or continue in Tyranny....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 4:21am PST
Went to an organizing/strategy/direct action meeting tonight - it was NOT a DASW meeting. DASW process stuff was specifically excluded from the agenda...but the various DASW partisans in the room had to bring up their old conflicts with one another...and the rest of us had to listen...again.
Why should the rest of us have to listen to DASW's collective divorce proceedings whenever we go to SF meetings? The DASW warfare starts to make the Socialists look functional.......
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 12:24am PST
The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a RALLY & MARCH to support the SF locked out hotel workers for this Saturday, November 20. Gather at 11:00 AM in Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:22pm PST
... protest oil addiction, watch Iraq film, hear authors read, perform your poetry, meet queer leatherfolk, do more.
Nov. 18 thru 26 in our SF Gay Area.......
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:14am PST
Wild story about the Pentagon's secret Internet....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 7:12pm PST
An election stolen by bumbling idiots-haha we caught you!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 6:23am PST
Please contact your congressperson today and let them know how your feel about the ’work’ they are doing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 6:19am PST
Backroom Deal Allows Continued Operation of Polluting Power Plants...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:49pm PST
VOTERGATE BART ALERT! THURSDAY, 11/18, SF, POWELL & MARKET, 5 PM; THE ONLY MANDATE IS TO STOP VOTER SUPPRESSION.
OHIO RECOUNT IS ON - REMOVE THE SEC'Y OF STATE FROM THE COUNT. NETWORKS: RELEASE STATE & COUNTY EXIT POLLS...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 12:40pm PST
Recently, I was involved in a project that required a visit to every
Independent Media Center in the country. I learned of an enormous
movement happening across the United States that literally astounded
me. There are protests and marches in every major city in
the country....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:38pm PST
Elephants need you to be their voice at Thursday's City Services Committee meeting. Residents must speak out in support of two animal friendly ordinances....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:11pm PST
Help Stop Racism in San Francisco, help protect the innocents!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 3:43pm PST