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Exploitative Labor Makes Mockery of Upcoming Olympics The theme of the 2004 summer Olympic Games is "celebrate humanity," yet the workers who make the gear and clothing for the upcoming Olympics suffer terribly inhumane working conditions and have few rights....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 8:57am PDT
Largest Union Endorses Million Worker March The 2.7 million member National Education Association (NEA) voted to endorse the call for a Million Worker March in Washington, D.C. on October 17, 2004. The endorsement was made on July 7th at the NEA’s national convention held in Washington, D.C....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 12:12pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio - National Edition: Walls or Bridges?- From Palestine to N.Y.C. Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEbCAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:52am PDT
June 24 04: Civil Liberties and Immigrant Rights News Updates 
Last two weeks had been one of the dark moments in US civil liberties and immigrant rights, U.S. conducted several horrible raids against immigrants across the California, arrested and deported many people.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the House passed the so-called "Intelligence Bill".
Lee Siu Hin
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
Peace No War Network
United Students Against Sweatshops...
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2004 3:15am PDT
NEWS FROM THE FORGOTTEN KOSOVO PROVINCE 
Remember the Yugoslav province of Kosovo? In 199, it made the news as Serbians drove its Albanian majority out. NATO intervened and now UNO rules the place, whose local politicians are no better than the 'Iraqi Council'. Here are some news from over there......
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 4:26am PDT
The draft platform of the REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, comments encouraged The draft platform of the REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, comments encouraged...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 9:53pm PDT
Judge approves class-action discrimination case against Wal-Mart When I heard about this break in the Wal-Mart case I felt like dancing for joy. Now we just need to figure out how to create a space in this country where folks can organize and not get fired or otherwise crushed by anti-union lawfirms and consultants. Hopefully organizing with Wal-Mart workers will be able to take on a whole new level in the near future as Wal-Mart invades the SF Bay Area and California....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 11:33am PDT
Independent truckers June 28 a national wildcat strike is taking place by the truckers for recognition and wage increase....
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 1:06pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio- Class War with Bill Moyers, Meizhu Lui, and Chuck Collins Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEBCAST AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 6:52am PDT
France - Power workers pull plug over sell-off plan 
Striking power workers cut France's national electricity output and blacked out the homes of targeted politicians on Tuesday as thousands of others marched against plans to partly privatise Electricite de France....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 11:56am PDT
Brave New World of Work: The Political Economy of Insecurity "The utopia of the free market has an unintentional upshot: the Brazilianization of the West.. What is most remarkable is the new similarity of the development profiles.., the incursion of the pre-carious, intermittent, fluffy and unsanctioned in the western bulwarks of the full employment society.."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 9:29am PDT
Workers confront Visteon violence BEDFORD, Ind. – To workers on the mass picket line at the Visteon auto parts plant here, it seems like the company, a Ford spin-off, has planned long and hard to systematically slash their wages and wipe out their jobs.
“Their goal is to get all of us out of that plant and get people starting at $7 an hour, topping at $10, and never, never go higher and no medical,” said Lori Staley, an assembler of fuel system components....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:54am PDT
Reagan, Class and Organized Labor"One Of The Most Damaging Presidents In American History" We speak with Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers of America and Francis Fox Piven, one of the country's leading sociologists, about class and organized labor during Reagan's presidency. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:52am PDT
Where are my clothes?: Research Survey For Creating A Sustainable Clothing Industry The global clothing industry involves several important social, political, economic, and environmental issues. This survey is part of the research for my senior thesis on how the clothing choices of socially concious, politically active, and/or radically thinking people can be agents of change for the global clothing industry....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 6:48am PDT
Ding Dong The Witch is Dead Reagan's death is time to celebrate for working people...
Posted: Thu, Jun 10, 2004 12:16am PDT
UGSOA Local 38 Joins SPFPA Memorandum to the 300 Former Members of UGSOA Local 38 Now Known as SPFPA Local 38...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 5:53pm PDT
100,000 strikers force SBC to pick up phone CHICAGO – Phone giant SBC Communications got the message when 100,000 workers in 13 states put down their headsets and tool belts to hit the streets, transmitting their own powerful message. After a four-day strike, May 21-24, the multi-billion-dollar company took the call. They came back to the bargaining table with the Communication Workers of America and signed a tentative agreement, addressing the union’s job loss issues and setting aside some of the company’s demands for health care take...
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 12:10am PDT
Up Against Wal-Mart Anti-Wal-Mart activists in Fayetteville, Arkansas, are organizing a June 4-6 gathering to protest the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Composed of students, labor unions and local progressive groups, the Against the Wal Coalition hopes to increase awareness of the retail giant’s unsavory business practices....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Lebanese demonstrators shot dead Lebanese soldiers have shot at demonstrators in a Beirut suburb, killing three and wounding many more....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 8:59am PDT
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