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Janitor's Health Care Under Attack 
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, hundreds of janitors representing SEIU Local 1877 took to the streets of San Francisco to show that they are ready to strike to protect their health care benefits....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 12:31am PDT
Riordan, Feinstein at center of parties' recall buzz Even as the parties planned strategy, the field of potential replacement candidates for Davis mushroomed: To date, a total of 123 Californians have taken out papers to run for governor in the recall, according to the Secretary of State's Office....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2003 10:28pm PDT
Demonstrate against Medicare Privatization Demonstrate Tuesday noon, August 5th, against Congress privatizing Medicare in the guise of a phony drug benefit program....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 9:58pm PDT
Heads of Organized Labor Sit Passively By as Big Business Politicians Burden Workers an As big business polticians in Sacramento go on the offensive against workers and the poor. The heads of organized labor let them off the hook yet again. The general feeling among workers and the poor that nothing can be done is a direct result of the failure of the labor leadership to counter the intensified attacks of capital....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:09pm PDT
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS COALITION JOINS PATAGONIA IN HONORING LIFE OF RELL SUNN RELL SUNN WAS A PIONEER IN WOMEN'S SURFING AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST. SHE PASSED AWAY AFTER A BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER. A SCREENING OF "HEART OF THE SEA" A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HER LIFE WILL BE SCREENED, JULY 31, 2003 AT 7:00pm....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 1:50am PDT
TOTAL RECALL Let's transform the "Recall Davis" campaign into one of "Total Recall" of all Democratic and Republican candidates....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 2:45pm PDT
Radio For Peace International - eviction! Radio for Peace International - wrongly evicted from University for Peace grounds. Staff has been at the station 24 hours a day since their notice in attempts to save their building. Please help save the 15-year-old station! Write to sg@un.org if you support international peace radio....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 7:23am PDT
BTL:House Passes White House Plan To Deprive Millions of Workers Overtime Pay. Interview with Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 4:59am PDT
Consumers Win From Pharmaceutical Free Trade Bill The US House of Representatives passed a bill, HR2427, allowing the average citizen to purchase prescription drugs out of country at a reduced cost....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 6:44am PDT
CE 215: Charla en Córdoba: Bolivar - Venezuela - Nuestra América ARGENTINA: CHARLA DEBATE: VIGENCIA DEL PENSAMIENTO DE SIMON BOLIVAR. Por Junta Bolivariana de Córdoba.
NUESTRA AMERICA: LA PATRIA BOLIVAR. Discurso de Fernando Bossi.
PUERTO RICO-VENEZUELA: PUERTO RICO Y VENEZUELA SON. Por José Ignacio Jiménez.
NUESTRA AMERICA: HOMENAJE AL LIBERTADOR. CANTO A BOLIVAR. De Pablo Neruda....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2003 3:35pm PDT
Hungry In Hazelton, Canada When the anti-union B.C. Liberal provincial government sold pulp producer Skeena Cellulose, the buyer closed the doors of the Carnaby mill in Hazelton. Over 100 workers were left without jobs....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 10:17pm PDT
Where is Juan when we need him? 
Fresno County Supervisor does not support a living wage for home care workers...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 9:36pm PDT
Governor Davis Recall is Approved County election officials completed their verification of signatures today, virtually assuring that Gov. Gray Davis (D) will face a recall vote in the fall once those results are certified by the secretary of state, as he has just given a press conference announcing the results are valid for a recall of Governor Davis....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 6:38pm PDT
Oakland business leaders defend anti-day laborer ordinance Ruling class denounces workers' protest....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 8:12am PDT
Correos para la Emancipación 213: Chávez - Argentina - Venezuela VENEZUELA: EL CONOCIMIENTO ASUME EL PODER EN VENEZUELA. Por Misión Robinson.
VENEZUELA: EDUCACIÓN, MORAL Y LUCES. Por Hugo Chávez.
ARGENTINA: ACTA DE DECLARACION DE LA INDEPENDENCIA ECONOMICA. Documentos. 9 de Julio de 1947.
ARGENTINA: LOS PROBLEMAS DE LA UNIDAD. Por Daniel Ezcurra....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2003 1:11pm PDT
Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete Taxes are NOT collected for revenue, but for redistribution of wealth to the wealthy, for the social control of YOU!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2003 7:50am PDT
Pictures From Berkeley Bowl Unionization Rally 
Nearly 100 activists gathered on the sidewalk near Berkeley Bowl Sunday to show their support for Berkeley Bowl workers. Berkeley Bowl workers have been trying to unionize and have come up against strong resistance from management; management has been giving employees anti-Union progaganda and have even fired one organizer....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2003 8:08pm PDT
Leading Democrats Go AWOL on Overtime Vote - Except Kucinich, of course On Thursday, the House of Representatives—with seven Democrats absent, including presidential candidate Richard Gephardt—voted 213 to 210 to approve new regulations that would cut off a universe of Americans—anywhere from 1 million to 8 million—from guaranteed overtime pay. Under the new rules, backed by the Bush administration and campaigned for heavily by business lobbyists, those employees would still have to put in extra hours. They just wouldn't get any extra pay....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 6:32pm PDT
Democrats allow anti-labor overtime bill to pass House Once again, we have proof that there is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The latest is the Democrats allowed an anti-labor overtime bill that replaces overtime pay with compensatory time pass the House. The US Senate could easily support this bill....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 5:49pm PDT
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