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Thousands March In San Francisco Demanding Gallo Boycott
UFW President Arturo Rodriguez lead several thousand farm workers and supporters in a “No Gallo!” march through the Mission and Castro districts and down Market St. in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Jul 17, 2005 5:06pm PDT
Laborfest Sex Worker Screening 7/17
6:30pm:
TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES8:00pm:
LEGALIZATION SUCKS- DECRIMINALIZE NOW!
9:30pm:
THE STORY OF THE TAIPEI LICENSED PROSTITUTES...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 2:07pm PDT
7/17: Hey-Hey! Ho-Ho! Gallo's Greed Has Go To Go! JOIN THE NEW GALLO BOYCOTT
SUNDAY JULY 17, 2005
11:30 am
Dolores Park
18th Street & Dolores
(across from Mission High School)...
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 3:17pm PDT
DAY LABORER CHORUS SINGS IN LABOR FEST!
WHAT: Day laborer chorus performance
WHEN: Saturday, July 16, 7 pm
WHERE: New College, Valencia St....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2005 2:06pm PDT
Legacy of The New Deal in California (audio/mpeg 19.8MB)
LaborFest lecture on the public works projects built by workers during the great depression...
Posted: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 7:32pm PDT
7/13 SF City Hall WAITRESSES UNITE!
San Francisco Waitresses will join together on Wed July 13 to speak about their work and struggles. It will be at 4:45 PM at SF City Hall Polk St. Entrance....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 11:23pm PDT
Stop Union Busting at Doten Honda!
Take action against the new owners of Berkeley Honda (formerly Doten) for dismissing union workers!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 6, 2005 7:59am PDT
Hell Yes, BART's a Mess, but Don't Blame the BART Union Workers
There is much wrong with BART, but the BART workers and BART unions are not responsible for the mess that BART is in, or better yet, the mess that bart is....
Posted: Mon, Jul 4, 2005 9:29pm PDT
Boycott Gallo Wine
The United Farm Workers invites people of good will to join our second boycott of Gallo wine in 32 years....
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 2:51pm PDT
Sign the Homecare Banner for Fresno County!!!
Fresno Homecare Workers, Seniors, People with Disabilities Protest Gov's Attack on Homecare & Power-Grab Special Election...
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 2:30pm PDT
South Mountain Company Interview on 'In The Meantime' (21.JUN.05) (audio/mpeg 15.1MB)
Interview on June 21, 2005 with John Abrams, Co-founder and co-owner of South Mountain Company (SoMoCo), an employee owned, resource conscious design/build firm located on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. John's book about the company, "The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place," was recently published by Chelsea Green Publishing. SoMoCo provides a wide range of services including development, planning, architecture, building, ca...
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 11:30pm PDT
Eggplant Active Media on "In The Meantime' (17.MAY.05) (audio/mpeg 12.3MB)
Interview on May 17, 2005 with Jason Lemieux and Arthur Folsha of Eggplant Active Media in Vermont, a worker run collective which provides new media and communication services to businesses, communities, organizations and individuals. Eggplant supports grassroots organizations, social and political movements, and individuals working for social change through donations of time, money, and services. They also promote and participate in open-source software communities through development, imple...
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 10:57pm PDT
IWW Berkeley Curbside Recyclers Union Update
BERKELEY- Workers at the Ecology Center in Berkeley, known as Curbside, welcomed their new operations manager Friday July 1st, with a meeting to discuss their expectations of his conduct. As the new boss sat and listened, Fellow Workers Todd Miller and Dominic Moschella outlined their complaints....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 5:20pm PDT
7/11Solidarity Rally For SF Newspaper Workers
The new publisher of the Hearst owned SF Chronicle Frank Vega name "Darth" Vega by Detroit newspaper workers is up to his old tricks. He is seeking major concessions from unionized SF newspaper workers and they need support on July 11, 2005 when they will rally....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2005 12:04am PDT
Doten Honda strike sign
The workers at Berkeley Honda (formerly Jim Doten Honda) at 2600 SHATTUCK AVENUE (btw Carleton and Parker Streets)
are on strike.
The ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY sign near Ashby appears to have been re-adopted....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2005 8:17pm PDT
7/5/05 LaborFest Movies & Entire LaborFest Schedule
LaborFest 2005, a multi-media and multi-cultural labor heritage month-long festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, commemorating the 1934 San Francisco general strike, commences on July 5 with movies "Mardi Gras: Made in China" and "The Concrete Revolution."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 30, 2005 10:50pm PDT
20 People Picket to Support MUNI Drivers Free Speech
Members of MUNI Social Strike and other groups came out this morning to support MUNI Operators Victor Grayson and Bari McGruder who were being tried today by their union for speaking both against working conditions for MUNI operators and the proposed fare hike and service cuts for riders....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 1:20pm PDT
Turmoil Again at KPFA After Six Years of Peace
KPFA General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job for a little more than half a year, is blamed for ignoring allegations of harassment. He’s even accused of harassing and demeaning women at the station and attempting to intimidate those who would report the abuse, charges he forcefully denies....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 11:40am PDT