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Updates from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers on Taco Bell boycott This alert includes:
1) Protest at Yum Brands Headquarters!
2) UCLA Preparing to "Boot the Bell!"...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:16pm PDT
Victory for Haitian Workers in Free Trade Zone! Continued Vigilance is Necessary for Recently Won Labor Rights
Posted April 23, 2004
This information comes to us from Batay Ouvriye....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 4:13pm PDT
Activists to Wear "Clean Clothes or Nothing" Activists to Wear "Clean Clothes or Nothing" in First-Ever
National "Sweatfree" Conference!
[Information for this alert comes from SweatFree
Communities, of which Campaign for Labor Rights is a
founding member.]...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 3:39pm PDT
The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank 
Examines the effects of World Bank land reform policies on farmers in several developing countries including India, Thailand, Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Also provides an overview of various social movements responding to World Bank programs....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:07pm PDT
The Four Day Week "The neoliberal medicine Less State and More Market does not work.. That the neoliberal medicine does not heal the economy and society but damages them must be clear to everyone who hasn't succumbed to the neoliberal delusion." Forcing employees to more work intensifies crisis....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 12:00pm PDT
Uncensored NLRB 10(j) Manual 
Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act empowers the NLRB to petition a federal district court for an injunction to temporarily prevent unfair labor practices by employers or unions and to restore the status quo, pending the full review of the case by the Board....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 1:09pm PDT
Columbian strikers will be treated as terrorists, police say Colombia's ultra-rightist president Uribe's move to declare an oil strike illegal, has sparked worldwide protests. More than a dozen union leaders have been arrested and police have announced that anti-terrorism measures will be taken against striking workers at the country's national oil company, Ecopetrol....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 12:42pm PDT
Collaborative May Day around the world article! Collaborative Mayday events post....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 1:04am PDT
Salvadoran healthcare workers occupy Cathedral 28 hours 
Healthcare workers take over National Cathedral in San Salvador demanding No to Privatization, No to CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement), and No to Salvadoran Troops in Irak. Police used violence and repression arresting activists. Union leadership still detained....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:37pm PDT
May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs 
In memory of Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Oscar Neebe. Your courage and sacrifice for the emancipation of labor will never be forgotten. - The Chicago Independent Media Center, 2004...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 2:49pm PDT
Israel, Tel Aviv, Violence against the anarchists in the first of May rally The authoritarian, statist and racist/zionist left at work. Business as usual....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:11am PDT
German Mayday The first reports are that there were thousands of police in Kreuzberg quarter of Berlin, and they quashed some mayday people.
This is a list of links to pictures of buildup to mayday and may day itself in Germany....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 7:45pm PDT
Truckers Block L.A. Freeway in Protest The gridlock occurred during the morning commute on Interstate 5 south of Los Angeles when truckers parked or jackknifed three big rigs, then sped away in a waiting car.
Police had been tipped the night before and were prepared with tow trucks that cleared the lanes within an hour along Interstate 5 in Commerce. Five truckers were arrested. [gee, wonder if they were monitoring trucker emails using the CA Anti-Terrorism Information Center . . . or surveilling phone calls, like the over 2 m...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 6:57pm PDT
HEALTH ADVOCATES ASSAULTED, STONED BY DOE RUN WORKERS Peruvian health advocates targeted by big polluter....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:05am PDT
US pounds Falluja amid pullout talks American warplanes have struck three areas in the beseiged city of Falluja amid talks to hand security over to former Iraqi army officers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 5:57pm PDT
Talking Back to Chomsky It strikes me that it is not at all obvious what we should do, and that by implying that it is, we risk making people feel stupid, when in fact they are quite right to ask the question, "What should I do?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 2:12pm PDT
Activists Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral Secretary General of STISSS Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 5:47pm PDT
Columbia - Family of Coke worker machine gunned A Colombian death squad struck at the family of a Coca-Cola union leader, killing two and wounding three kids....
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:29pm PDT
Nike Watch: Building Toward May Day Actions!!! May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
AT-Fuckin U ATU International Sits idiely By As ATU local 1005
gets Privatized!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 12:50am PDT
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