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Stop The Bullying & Racism! CTC Confronted By SF MLK Middle School Education Workers-Staff 
On January 24, 2014 teachers, staff from San Francisco Martin Luther King Middle school and public school advocates spoke out and challenged the physical abuse of students and massive bullying by the principal Natalie Eberhard and cover-up by Assistant principal Anthony Braxton and SFUSD Associate Superintendent Jeanie Pon. The Credential's Committee illegally prevented the material witnesses from testifying in closed session and their lawyer Michael Butler flagrantly violated California law ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:34am PST
Pete Seeger On ILWU President Harry Bridges & The SF General Strike 
Pete Seeger on the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco General strike talked about his visit to San Francisco in 1941 to support the ILWU and their strike committee....
Posted: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:39am PST
A path to dismantling Bay Area tech gentrification and revitalizing the Central Valley The gentrification of the Bay Area is unsustainable. Tech workers are being used by their employers as cannon fodder in the class war. People want democracy, not charity. Tech companies have to pay their taxes. They also need to use this thingie called the Internet to spread their operations out to places that need the economic activity, like the Central Valley. Bonus: High-speed rail....
Posted: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 7:53am PST
Battle At SF Korean Consulate "Hands Off Korean Workers" 
Workers and activists in support of the Korean Railway Workers Union rallied at the San Francisco Korean Consulate. The government mobilized a counter-demonstration of retired Korean military veterans and elderly pro-government women to harass and attack the solidarity rally. They failed and the rally took place....
Posted: Sun, Jan 19, 2014 5:09pm PST
Korean Government Pays Demonstrators At SF Korean Consulate To Support Park Geun-hye Gov 
The Korean government San Francisco Consulate paid mostly elderly Korean women to protest in support of the Park Geun-hye government. Some retired Korean military staff also tried to assault a Korean American who was at the rally to support the Korean workers who are fighting privatization of the KORAIL system and face prison and repression...
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:13am PST
San Francisco Labor Council Resolution for $15 Minimum Wage Below is a resolution passed unanimously by the San Francisco Labor Council on January 13, 2014 calling for a $15 minimum wage in San Francisco. Following the text of the resolution are the arguments that were used to support the resolution at the meeting....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 10:45pm PST
Dan Siegel Announces “Radical” Agenda If Elected Mayor of Oakland, 1/9/14: video & photos 
Civil rights attorney Dan Siegel announced his candidacy for mayor of Oakland on January 9 before a crowd of well over 100 supporters in Oscar Grant plaza at the corner of 14th & Broadway. Under an arc of green and gray balloons that framed the Jack London Oak, Siegel spelled out an ambitious agenda should he be elected mayor of Oakland. He wants a $15 minimum wage, public schools to develop into community centers, neighborhood gardens to flourish throughout the city, Oakland police to stop ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 1:13pm PST
SF Educational/Action Conference-Come Join The Fight Against VEOLIA Stop Privatization 
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission St., SF...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 6:10pm PST
Emergency Demonstration for South Korean rail workers, San Francisco, Dec 27 2013 
A solidarity rally was held for Korean Railway Workers Union and the KCTU on December 27, 2013 at the San Francisco Korean consulate. Participants defended the Korean railway strikers and called for the victory of the general strike....
Posted: Sun, Dec 29, 2013 10:56am PST
La Playa Carmel Holiday Rally Becomes Annual Tradition at Hotel 
Santa Claus made a repeat visit to the hotel workers rally held at La Playa Carmel this year in December. Community members continue to protest owner Sam Grossman's refusal to rehire the workers who were laid off in 2011 when the hotel was closed for a remodel. When La Playa Carmel re-opened in 2012, only three of the former workers, who were all union members, were hired back....
Posted: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 8:12pm PST
AFT/CFT Ed Workers & CCSF Supporters Speak On Lawsuit To Stop Revocation of Accreditation 
Hundreds of CCSF faculty and supporters attended a court hearing to support a lawsuit that would stop the revocation of the accreditation of college....
Posted: Thu, Dec 26, 2013 10:34pm PST
Apple Bus Blockaded In SF Protest Against Tech Owners, Speculators And Evictions 
San Francisco tenants threatened with evictions and communit- labor activists blockaded an Apple bus in San Francisco on December 20, 2013 to protest the massive increase in evictions caused by speculators, property developers and a Mayor and Board of Supervisors that are giving subsidies to the tech billionaires such as Twitter rather than stopping tenant evictions. They called for a state of emergency to immediately halt the attacks on tenants going on in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Dec 21, 2013 7:11am PST
Video of West Oakland Google Bus Disruption (video/mp4 28.0MB) a vid of wut happenz there...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 2:05pm PST
Google Bus blocked and disrupted in West Oakland 
An account by participants in an autonomous anti-gentrification action to block a Google Bus at 7th and Adeline in West Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 10:43am PST
American Federation of Teachers Ratify Contract at City College of San Francisco The instructors at City College of San Francisco have ratified a new contract -- They, and Chancellor Arthur Tyler, are happy....
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 2:26pm PST
Stop Privatization of Public Education & Union Busting! No More Public Money To Charters, 
On December 9, 2013 the AFT and NEA along with over organizations called for a national day of action to "reclaim education". The call included support for making the "common core" pushed by the Gates Foundation and other privatizers. At the same time the call for the rally did not mention privatization and the use of charters to destroy public education....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:24pm PST
Why We Strike: UC Lied to You 
A zine produced by the Autonomous Students group at UC Santa Cruz. Topics include a debrief of the November 20th, 2013 strike, how strikes effect you, letters from campus groups M.E.Ch.A and SIN, and awesome art from students on campus. Enjoy and spread the word. Solidarity. (click on PDF)...
Posted: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 6:44pm PST
Spirited Rally at McDonalds in Oakland Demands $15 Dollars an Hour Minimum (video/x-ms-wmv 96.6MB) 4:37 video...
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 12:25pm PST
Will UESF fight for a Living Wage? 
This article summarizes the major issues around UESF's upcoming contract fight and argues that the issues surround the wages and work hours of our poorest members must be central to our fight this year. It also makes the case for the need to prepare for a strike....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 8:53pm PST
People’s Democratic Club resolution supports striking engineers The People’s Democratic Club of Santa Cruz County, at its November meeting, unanimously passed a resolution supporting members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 in their on-going strike against Dominican Hospital’s corporate parent, Dignity Health....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 12:16pm PST
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