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Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
In this Alert:
1. Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
2. Fighting to Keep Their Rights
3. PANAMCO, Coke in Colombia
4. Take Action Now!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:45pm PDT
Voices of Anarchist Union Organizers
I asked a few folks to tell me a little about themselves and their views
on organizing for unions. These six people identify as either an anarchist (with or without adjectives) or as an anti-authoritarian (an anarchist that doesn't know it yet!). They all work as union organizers or have worked as union organizers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 1:43pm PDT
Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB)
More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:10pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel
A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
BILLY BRAGG: POWER IN A UNION (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.3MB)
FOR THE ILWU -- BILLY BRAGG, NYC, FEB. 1, 2002 DEMONSTRATIONS VS THE WEF
3 min....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 12:20pm PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War
Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Action Alert! Burlington Coat Factory - Cloaked in Oppression
This winter, help stop dictatorship in Burma: Burlington Coat Factory is helping support Burma's military regime by retailing huge quantities of "Made in Burma" products. Please take a minute to tell this company to end support for forced labor and stop the retail of products from Burma!
Write Burlington Coat Factory at Customer.Mail@coat.com...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 10:13am PDT
El Salvador: Violent Repression Reaching Heights, Urgent Call for Solidarity!
30 health care workers fired, union leaders held at gunpoint in El Salvador as the resistance to corporate gloablization surges...
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2002 12:56pm PDT
NOV 4-10 ANTI-COCA-COLA-WEEK
We are demanding that our university refuse the next coca-cola contract renewal unless coca-cola cleans up their act. (1. Allow international human rights monitors in their plants and around their installations. 2. Publicly condemn paramilitary violence in Colombia and cease all connections with them. 3. Allow the WRC, an independent sweatshop monitoring group,into their plants.) We will demand our university to write a letter to coke demanding these things or else...NO CONTRACT....
Posted: Fri, Sep 13, 2002 8:23am PDT
Union Members Should Organize
Many union members agree with the criticisms of what the union leadership is and isn't doing, including in relatin to the ILWU struggle. Now it's necessary to organize to force a change in the unions....
Posted: Wed, Aug 28, 2002 8:25pm PDT
Fight Corporatization of Co-ops!
Is the Co-op where you work being "Co-opted" by management into a corporate run model? We can fight it!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 24, 2002 10:15pm PDT
Labor Strikes in Israel
The Israel garbage is soon gone from the stage of history, thanks to the actions of the workingclass. There are now general strikes in Israel as the Israeli economy sinks to the bottom of the sea, and the sooner it sinks, the better not only for the US taxpayer who pays for it all, but for all humanity....
Posted: Sun, Aug 18, 2002 9:45am PDT
Bush visit to Portland, an invitation
ILWU Local 5 Executive Board resolution regarding the upcoming Bush visit to Portland, OR...
Posted: Wed, Aug 14, 2002 2:13pm PDT
i2002 - International Solidarity Conference
The 2nd "International Solidarity Conference (i2002) will be held in Essen, Germany between 29 August and 1 September, 2002. Approximately 200 anarchosyndicalist, revolutionary syndicalist, industrial unionists and other social revolutionary workers from a present number of about 25 countries in the 5 continents will participate. Interested persons may apply to the conference up till the 20th of August. Detailed information is available at http://www.fau.org/i2002...
Posted: Mon, Aug 5, 2002 11:27am PDT
Greek Communists Arrested
Marxist-Leninist will not be tolerated in Greece.
Who would want these vermin in their country anyway.
Bush says get'm out!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 3, 2002 3:09pm PDT
UN issues 'seriously flawed' report on Jenin killings
Long awaited investigation repudiates massacre claim and fails to blame Israel...
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 5:10am PDT
WTO Resistance Group Launches Nationwide Public Information Campaign
The WTO Resistance Group announced today that they have launched a large Public Information Campaign by sending Anti-WTO / IMF postcards to households and businesses across the US and Canada...
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 6:16pm PDT
Bill in Congress allows music industry to sabotage everyone's computers - including yours
Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely. Berman is the leading entertainment industry whore, receiving more contributions from them than any other member of Congress. The head of the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, called the Berman bill an "innovative approach to combating the serious problem of Internet pirac...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 4:40am PDT
URGENT!!FAST TRACK VOTE TOMORROW!!CALL YOUR REP
CONGRESS MUST HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS THAT THIS PROCESS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN DC:
1-877-611-0063 (AFL-CIO SPONSORED TOLL FREE NUMBER)
1-202-224-3121 (CAPITOL HILL SWITCHBOARD)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 1:28pm PDT
Where are John Sweeney and the heads of Organized Labor
If we are to be succesful in driving back the offensive of the employers, the role of the leaders of the trade union movement in obstructing this process cannot be ignored. Individuals or a small group of activists cannot substitute themselves for the leaders of organized labor. This does not mean that we do not try to lead struggles where we can....
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2002 8:34am PDT