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Portworkers Solidarity Rally--Wed. 7/24 There will be a rally at 12:00 noon on Wed., July 24, 2002 at 550 California Street, San Francisco. The Bush administration and the world’s largest corporations are now attempting to break theILWU, one of this nation’s strongest, most democratic and most egalitarian unions. If the government/corporate alliance succeeds in eliminating the ILWU hiring hall, this union will essentially be broken, and a cascade of others can not be far behind....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:27pm PDT
July 19-26 LaborFest Schedule TIPS is being tossed because enough people have learned the lessons of the last fascist era in the 1950s, with its primary goal of destroying labor organizations, to protest as soon as we smell a whiff of that same old fascist stench. To learn that history, other labor history, and participate in today's labor cultural activities, come to the best thing happening in July in the SF Bay Area, LaborFest....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 8:15pm PDT
Unemployment: The Shame Queue in Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff) Copyright-free photos by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 6:03pm PDT
Walk for Farmworker Justice: round-up of portland indymedia coverage Collected portland indymedia coverage of the 2002 Walk for Farmworker Justice in Woodburn, Oregon, on July 13....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 9:17pm PDT
NORTH WEST ANARCHIST-COMMUNIST ORGANIZING NETWORK (NWACON) NWan-comm list Greetings
After some discussion, and looking at the example of the NEFAC, we have
set up a list in order to try to start a process to create an northwest federation....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 7:10pm PDT
Whole Foods Workers in Madison, Wisconsin Win Union The final vote count: 65 in favor, and 54 against....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 11:31pm PDT
Mayor Punishes Community Program for Worker Protest On 7/15, outraged service providers and laborers rally against mayor's funding retaliation against the San Francisco Day Labor Program....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 11:17am PDT
Screeners heave sigh of relief SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - After eight months of anxiety, the airport screeners can heave a sigh of relief, for the moment.
The planned lay-off which would have affected the non-citizen screeners is not going to happen....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 1:32am PDT
July 12-19: LaborFest Schedule A labor movement is the surest and best way to end police brutality, environmental destruction, all kinds of discrimination, and a society that puts guns before butter, namely capitalism. To do that, we must organize the unorganized. Learn how and labor history and culture at LaborFest....
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2002 8:05pm PDT
Anti-Capitalist Conference Reportback & SF Plans Announcing the formation of an organizing collective for an SF Anti-Capitalist Conference and reportback from Anti-Capitalist Conference in Toronto...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:58pm PDT
Approximating Life The inventor of Alice, the world's most lifelike artificial-intelligence program, alienates his allies and frightens his colleagues. If only Richard Wallace could get along with people as well as Alice can....
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 4:52pm PDT
Flashpoints: SF Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour Flashpoints Radio July 4 and 5:
- live broadcasts from Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour - SomArts Center 934 Brannon Street San Francisco
- segments with Navaho women Weaving for Resistance, Steve Zeltzer and Labor Fest, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, SF Mime Troop - Mr. Smith goes to Obscuristan, Michael Franti, more
Celebration continues until midnight Saturday...
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 1:44pm PDT
Ariel Sharon Attacks Israeli Workingclass The World Socialist Website reports that as the Israeli economy declines, the viciously anti-Arab lackey of US oil imperialism, Ariel Sharon, is leading the attack on the Jewish workingclass, because promoting the interests of oil imperialism is by definition anti-labor....
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 6:07am PDT
7/10 Rally at Chinese Consulate for Jailed Unionists Please come to the rally and press conference on Wednesday, July 10 at 12 noon in front of the Chinese Consulate (1450 Laguna @ Geary Blvd. - near Japantown) to protest the jailing of the Liaoyang 5, five Chinese union representatives....
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2002 2:48pm PDT
Laborfest July 5-12 Events We need a labor movement now. The reason the election-fraud dictatorship in Washington exists with its blood for oil wars abroad and its Reichstag Fire of 9/11/01, fascism and poverty at home is because there is no labor movement. You can learn labor history and hear about current labor struggles in the US and around the world at LaborFest events in the Bay Area, July 5-July 31, 2002, as we honor the San Francisco General Strike of 1934....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2002 9:31am PDT
The fight for a workers' party continues From July 25-28th the Labor Party is holding its third national convention in Washington DC. However, there is a sharp contrast between the lack of interest in this convention compared with the excitement of the 1996 founding convention......
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2002 8:59am PDT
SF Day Labor Program Under Attack After the SF Day Labor Program's recent worker-led speak-out against police ticketing, the Mayor's office announced that it will put up for public bid the money which the city provides to La Raza Centro Legal to administer the program. This move is blatent retaliation for the workers' political activities and puts this important program in serious jeopardy....
Posted: Tue, Jul 2, 2002 12:15pm PDT
To SF from Ottawa Some reflections from a Californian in Canada to protest the G-8...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 11:55pm PDT
Networked Web/Microradio Broadcast of Portworkers Rally The Portworkers Rally at the Port of Oakland at 11:00 am on June 27, 2002 will be broadcast over a web/microradio network along the West Coast. A live microradio broadcast from the Port of Oakland will be received by the SF IMC and web cast to other IMC's, where the streams will be picked up and broadcast via the Internet and microradio....
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2002 12:38am PDT
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