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Activists protest at Salvadoran Consulates in New York and San Francisco (photos)
Activists protest at Salvadoran Consulates in New York and San Francisco to demand freedom for jailed health care union leaders
STISSS union marches in El Salvador against privatization of health care and repression of workers...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 2:13pm PDT
Protesters Demonstrate At Consulate: Stop the Crackdown on Labor in El Salvador!
EMBARGO UNTIL 9am Thursday, May 13th
Media Advisory
Event: Activists to demonstrate in front of the Salvadoran consulates in
New York City and San Francisco Demand the immediate release of jailed
Salvadoran union leaders and the end of police repression against workers in
El Salvador
Date: Thursday May 13, 12 PM (EST)
Place: El Salvador Consulates:
46 Park Ave. New York, NY
870 Market Street San Francisco, CA...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 10:21am PDT
5/16/04 Oakland 25 Victory Party (Corrected Date)
Bring your pictures, songs, spent police cartridges and other paraphernalia....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 5:29am PDT
Protest REI's ties to Sweatshop Labor!
Wednesday, May 12, at 11pm, there will be a community picket out in front of the San Francisco REI office. REI is refusing to pay a measly $27,000 owed its factory workers as well as refusing to disclose its records....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:50am PDT
Tomorrow Night: Televising the Revolution at El RIo!
Come this Tuesday Night, see the incredible film, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and raise money for the San Francisco Day Labor Program!...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 8:34am PDT
Oakland Trucker Strike May Be Over...
After taking off for the afternoon, I returned tonight around 8:30pm to find a few dozen workers still talking about the strike and what to do next. Essentially the strike was broken up this afternoon when the Port of Oakland went to court to obtain an injunction "against the continuing unlawful disruption of transportation in the harbor area"....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 9:51pm PDT
Update: Port authorities give strikers order to leave
Today at around 1pm Port Authorities tried to give strikers legal papers to force them to leave Port property(aka the APL main gate where they are picketing)....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 2:03pm PDT
5/7 Update: Oakland Truckers Strike Not Over Yet, Solidarity Needed
After about 3 hours of negotiations at the Port of
Oakland building tonight on 530 Water St, it became
apparent that a large number of trucking companies
were still not willing to offer the truckers what they
have been asking for since the strike began...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 12:43am PDT
Telephone Workers March for Justice @ SBC - pics from the march and rally
The message went out that CWA "Will Strike If Provoked."...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 8:51pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 4
Strike continues despite media reports that state otherwise....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Port of Oakland Press Release Claiming Trucker Reached an Agreement with the Port
This is the press release that folks over at the Port of Oakland sent out without even allowing the workers to decide whether or not they agreed to the supposed agreement or not....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:11am PDT
Police, Port Authorities, and Companies Attempt to Force Strikers Back To Work
Pictures and a reportback on the role that the Port of Oakland authorities, the Police, and the Oakland Tribune played in the strike today, Wednesday May 5th. A more extensive report will be written later in the week....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 6:44am PDT
DASW Labor Solidarity Working Group Call to Rally Today 5/6 at 4pm
CALL to SUPPORT STRIKING INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS
RALLY/PICKET/RAISE FISTS - THURSDAY May 6th, 4 pm
Port of Oakland Commission Offices, 530 Water St., Jack London Square
(Striking Truckers Representatives will be negotiatiing with the companies starting at 5pm inside 530 Water St.)...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 4:10am PDT
Teamster's Informational Flyers for Oakland Truck Driver Strike
2 informational flyers handed out by the Teamsters today at the APL gate. One is about the profits that the steamships are making, and one is about the profits the oil companies have been making....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:50am PDT
Truckers' strike continues; community support needed
The truckers' strike is still going, despite an inaccurate report announcing that truckers would return to work Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 3:42am PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 3
Independent truckers carry their strike into the fourth day!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 8:34pm PDT
Call for Solidarity Meeting at APL Gate, Oakland Docks at 6pm
Whether that means talking to other folks you know and encouraging them to visit the strikers at the Oakland Docks, calling that friends of yours who works for the corporate media, or even just forwarding this call to action to your friends....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 1:29am PDT
Tuesday Night @ the Oakland Docks
Tues night at the Oakland docks...scab trucks came in, and left later by police escort , while the truckers who hold the contracts watch on the sidelines and protest loudly at the scandal before their eyes....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 12:53am PDT
URGENT: Support striking truck drivers in Oakland!
Call for demonstration of community support...
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 11:24pm PDT
Independent Truckers Strike! Part 2
Independent truck drivers continue their strike into the third day....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 3:23pm PDT