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Fresno Cesar Chavez March 
100 people march in honor of Cesar Chavez in Fresno...
Posted: Sat, Mar 27, 2004 3:15pm PST
April 15 Forum to Defend Maquiladora Workers & Stop FTAA and CAFTA! Please join us Thursday, April 15 at a public forum in San Francisco on the fight to organize an independent union in the maquiladora (sweatshop, pass-through) industry in Mexicali, Mexico (just across the border from Calexico, Calif.) and to build greater opposition in the Bay Area to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)....
Posted: Sat, Mar 27, 2004 1:05pm PST
Report on Dolores Huerta Event Here's an excellent summary of Dolores Huerta's appearance at CSUS on Thursday night by Duane Campbell....
Posted: Fri, Mar 26, 2004 9:12pm PST
City of Fresno Sues Mauldin Dorfmeier Construction for Millions City of Fresno Sues Contractor for Millions Over Delayed Airport Expansion;
Carpenters Union welcomes move to protect the public interest;
Suit only the latest in a string of disputes involving Mauldin-Dorfmeier Construction, Inc....
Posted: Thu, Mar 25, 2004 4:33pm PST
The Post-Modern Prince: The Working Class in the 21st Century "We are living in a period of transition to a new capitalist formation.. In this turbulent transitional phase, the relative strength between capital and labor has shifted in favor of capital.. The central contradiction is between reproduction and exploita-tion.." translated from the German...
Posted: Thu, Mar 25, 2004 5:56am PST
May 21: 2004 Pacific Northwest Labour History Association Conference Following is information about the 2004 Pacific Northwest Labour History Association conference "Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Workers and the Quest for Social Change in the Pacific Northwest" to be held in Eugene, Oregon, from May 21 - 23. More information is available at www.pnlha.org or email pnlha@shaw.ca...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 9:45pm PST
Call for DASW contingent in Chavez march this Sunday 
Call for anti-war contingent in Chavez parade and festival this Sunday in SF...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 6:31pm PST
Teacher/ Activist Cesar Cruz Fired For Caring About Students and Parents Instead of Profit International Activist, Poet, and Elementary Teacher Cesar Cruz was fired Monday at Downer Elementary School. The firing occured after an article was published that documented Cesar's organizing of a 70 mile march on Sacramento by students and parents to protest budget cuts at their 99% people of color school, as well as the presence of the nearby prison and oil refinery. (Un) Coincidentally, Cesar had also recently aided the community in their demands for a new school and site-based manage...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:55pm PST
Statement on the Southern California Grocery strike by Labors Militant Voice The union leadership let so. cal workers down. Unions should return to the methods of the 1930s and lead a fight for health care for all....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 11:30pm PST
March 25: Speak Out in Support of SF Day Laborers Day Laborers Fighting for Their Funding from the City...
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 3:34am PST
The Social State under Attack "Cuts in benefits are not social reforms but a relapse into the 19th century when society was unable to protect its members from general life risks.. Today society is richer than ever and the social state is indispensable.."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 6:42am PST
Central Valley Events in Honor of Cesar Chavez 
Listing of events honoring the life of labor leader Cesar Chavez...
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 2:48pm PST
San Francisco Asks to Resume Gay Weddings Lawyers for the City of San Francisco returned to the California Supreme Court Thursday to seek a reversal of the March 11 court order that ended the rush to the alter by same-sex couples....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 11:41pm PST
3/28 Cesar Chavez Parade and Festival Join the celebration commemorating the life and work of labor and civil rights leader Cesar
Chavez
Sunday, March 28, 2004-SF
11 a.m. - Assemble for Parade 12 noon - Parade 1 p.m. - Program & Festival
Second Street Market Street Civic Center Plaza...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 10:34am PST
April 7: Remember the Shots! Return to the Docks! From Oakland to Iraq
No War! No Empire!
Return to the Oakland Docks!
Wednesday April 7th, 2004 on the anniversary of the April 7, 2003 Community picket shutdown and assault at the APL and SSA ports on Oakland Docks....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:21pm PST
3/21 Million Worker March on DC Planning Meeting Planning Meeting and Background Info for the Million Worker March proposed by ILWU local 10...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:42pm PST
40 million strike--against a ban on strikes! One of the biggest strikes in world history took place 3 weeks ago in India, but the U.S. media chose to ignore it! (I just found out about it today). Briefly, India's supreme court had ruled that it was illegal for government workers to strike, so in order to protest the ruling and pressure the government: the workers--went on strike!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 9:09pm PST
Action to Support Garment Workers Struggle for Justice: Tarrant México Ajalpan Campaign Mexican workers to visit SF next week prior to NAFTA hearing...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 2:20pm PST
Oakland 25 Rally: An Injury to One, Is An Injury to All 
Stop Police Terror. Defend Civil Liberties, Civil Rights and Union Rights.
Demand the Unjust Charges Be Dropped!
Defend the Right to Protest! End the War Now!!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 9:10pm PST
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