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Cesar Chavez Day: Walk for Dignity
The Xispas website and blog is the place to learn about Xicano culture, art, and politics. We deal with history, indigenous traditions, books, opinions, and social criticism. In this newsblast, we offer some people's history and opportunity for community action. Con solidaridad - Xispas staff www.xispas.com/blog...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 1:28pm PST
Govanetor joins our protest Arnold's sellout of us working people, our kids, our elders
Govanetor joins our protest of Arnold's sellout of us working people, our kids, our elders 2 minute video...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 11:39am PST
Protest Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 11:30 am
WHAT: Protest Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan
WHERE Charles Schwab office, 101 Montgomery St. @Sutter
(Montgomery Street BART/MUNI Station)
San Francisco...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 9:03pm PST
Schwarzenegger Runs into Fresno Protest
There is nowhere in this state that Governor Schwarzenegger can go where he will not run into a spirited protest. This one was in Fresno....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:10pm PST
JRA member gets life for embassy raids
PHOTO: Mariko Yamamoto-Deported, Masao Adachi-Deported, Haruo Wako-Deported, Koso Okamoto-Political Asylum, Kazuo Tahira-Deported..Beirut Friday March 17 2000...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 12:53pm PST
Poll Shows Public Opinion Sharply Divided on Regulating Appearance at Workplace
Poll Shows Public Opinion Sharply Divided on Regulating Appearance at Workplace; 16 Pct. Say They Were Victims of Discrimination on the Job...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:28am PST
BAYAN USA CONDEMNS KILLINGS & EXPRESS CONCERN FOR INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS JUSTICE CAPULONG
Threats against the Philippines’ premier human rights lawyer linked to Hacienda Luisita massacre, derailment of peace talks and U.S. “war on terror”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:11am PST
Tonight: Protest Against Wal-Mart in Oakland Town Hall Meeting
When: Wednesday Evening, March 23rd 2005, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Where: ILWU Local 6 Union Hall, 99 Hegenberger Road (cross street
Pardee)...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:07am PST
US Labor Speaks Out on The War (video/quicktime 48.1MB)
On March 19, 2005, hundreds of Bay Area trade unionists and workers joined together in a rally and march against the war. They speak about the connection of the war and the attack on workers at home....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:23pm PST
Clovis experiments with privatization of city services
Clovis City Council unanimously votes to delay a request by a Clovis woman to name a new city park in memory of her son...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 11:17pm PST
photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march
photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 6:35am PST
San Francisco port workers shutting down docks to protest war
There’s a rising tide of workers’ anger against the war in Iraq and the cuts in government programs to pay for it -- in enforcement of worker- safety laws, health care, Social Security, education and jobs. The recent victory of the nurses’ union over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt to deny adequate staffing ratios in hospitals shows that labor can turn the tide....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 5:56am PST
What's next for California's nurses and their patients?
California nurses recently won a well-publicized battle against Gov.. Schwarzenegger and the hospital owner's lobby, but this isn't the first time the lobby has tried to manipulate regulations designed to protect patients....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 11:21pm PST
Photos From Labor Contingent At Anti-War Protest
Several hundred labor rights activists (and groups defending Social Security) gathered behind the tenis courts near 18th and Delores before the main anti-war protest. After many speakers, the labor contingent joined the main march to Civic Center....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 3:14pm PST
What's Left?
"Lefty" Hooligan takes on the multicultural-pc-identity politics of the leftover Left. Reprinted from his column in Maximum Rock'n'roll....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 9:30am PST
Michiag Woes-Why people may be leaving
I am confounded by the total lack of customer servcie & worker pride in the rustbelt state of michigan...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 1:10pm PST
Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate
Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate; Retail Giant's Ongoing Media Blitz Fails to Hide Company Record...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:07pm PST
92% of UC Service Workers Vote to Strike
Low-Wage Workers Say 'Disrespect' and 'Bad-Faith Bargaining' Are Key...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 8:46am PST
An Overview of Anarchism
Within the modern anti-capitalist and anti-corporate-globalization movements we have seen a marked shift from the hierarchical leftist groups of the sixties and seventies that were more given to intrigues, factionalism, and demagoguery, to decentralized, non-hierarchical organizing....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 11:32am PST
Defending Labor's Right To Protest The War
This editorial ran in today's SF Chronicle. Please send this to every union member who you think might be on the fence about going to the antiwar rally on 3/19....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 8:56am PST