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Leaders and Led Leaders are our example and we should emulate and follow that example at all times, in this way we guarantee a future of complete destructive ‘anarchy’ for the world – ‘blessed are the liars and murderers for they have inherited the earth’! Whatever the discourse and regardless of any other consideration we will incorporate it to achieve our aims. The law and other ‘constraints’ are for the weak; we create and alter laws according to our needs. ‘Sedition’ automatically implies our ‘right’ and...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:03am PDT
Bay Area Teachers Support Oaxaca Colleagues (video/quicktime 22.7MB) On Friday, June 16th, Teachers for Social Justice called a picket at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco. Thirty Bay Area teachers delivered a letter of concern which the Consulate promised to forward to the PRI governor of Oaxaca. Karen Zapata, Teachers for Social Justice; Dennis Kelly, United Educators of San Francisco; and, Ed Murray, San Francisco Community College Federation of Teachers, spoke. Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:37pm PDT
Activists Demand Prosecution of Insurers, Too/Next Action In Oakland 6/29 Injured workers protested the corrupt Insurance Assessment Commission's refusal to prosecute
insurance companies for fraud and terrorism against injured workers....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 10:48am PDT
BAY AREA Summer Organizing Internship – UNITE! HERE UNITE! HERE International Union is accepting applications for a Bay Area summer paid internship program ($550/wk stipend)....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:42pm PDT
Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25) Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
Support Oaxaca teachers on strike! (Videos + article) Below is some raw fottage of what's happening....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:53pm PDT
Union Members Lose While The Loveall Leadership Gets Rich! While union members of new UFCW Local 8 Golden State continue to be pledged with concessions ,store closures and job uncertainty the Loveall leadership continues to get rich off the backs of rank n file workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:29pm PDT
Minimum Wage 'Showdown' This Week It’s urgent that you contact your U.S. senators and representative now and tell them to vote for a minimum wage increase and reject any amendments designed to hurt workers....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 7:36pm PDT
Illegal? Fugitive? Need a SSN? Use 000-00-0000, 9 million other people have! The federal Government Accountability Office found that between 1985 and 2000, 9 million people got hired using this Social Security number: 000-00-0000....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:31am PDT
Widespread unrest erupts among textile workers in Bangladesh Angry protests by thousands of textile workers broke out last month around the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka and reemerged again this month. The unrest threatened to create a political crisis for the government, as the economy is heavily dependent on textile and garment exports produced in the country’s sweatshops....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 6:37am PDT
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 2) Bottom Line, Cody's is a casualty in the struggles between businesses in their will to power under the logic of capitalist market discipline, not People's Park or the downtrodden masses. To argue otherwise is to ignore reality.
Based on deductive reasoning, its the only conclusion that best fits the facts....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Capitalism--not People's Park--killed Cody's Books (Part 1) Since the announcement that the original Cody's Books in Berkeley is going out of business, local pundits, politicians, capitalists, and scissorbills have created a shit-storm. As happens so many times when influential businesses close, the capitalist class and its enablers have predictably placed the blame for this tragedy upon the shoulders of the usual suspects: the homeless, young punks, holdovers from the 1960s counterculture, and the city of Berkeley itself. As usual, the real truth goe...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 12:43pm PDT
BTL:Bush-GOP Tax Cuts Benefit Wealthy While Jeopardizing U.S. Economic Future Interview with Len Berman, director of the Tax Policy Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 5:29am PDT
Autoworkers want traction on jobs, health care LAS VEGAS — The fight for jobs and national health care were uppermost on the minds of 2,000 autoworkers and retirees who gathered here for the United Auto Workers convention June 12....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 10:33pm PDT
Support the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc, a community center in San Jose Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc is a community organizing center that focuses on the democratic rights of la Raza. Support the July 2, 2006 fundraiser for the Centro....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:52pm PDT
Oakland File Screening "Five Factories: Workers Control in Venezuela" Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 7:09pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 1:16am PDT
Union Wins Landslide Victory - Shattuck Cinema Workers Pull Through with Vote for The IWW This afternoon workers at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas voted an outstanding 22 to 2 in favor of unionization. Despite new promises by Landmark and an attempt by CEO Bill Banowsky to thwart the union attempt, workers at the Shattuck say they've never really been worried about the vote....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 12:17am PDT
Contra Costa unions plan June 27 strike Thousands of Contra Costa County workers plan to walk off the job June 27 to protest gridlocked talks between the county and its bargaining units....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 11:10pm PDT
Get This Work -- Free Concert and Jobs & Opportunities Fair Frank Ogawa Plaza
14th Street & Broadway (Downtown Oakland)...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 10:32pm PDT
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