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Photos from the May 25 Day of Action 
Photographs from the May 25 Day of Action....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 8:21pm PDT
The Myth of the “Fiscal Crisis” The first step that must be taken if we are to reverse the cuts and prevent the destruction of the New Deal’s gains is to understand in our own minds that there is no fiscal crisis....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 9:29am PDT
The Crisis of Work and its Future "Producing more with less labor, distributing the fruits of technical progress better, creating a new balance betweenr equired work and freely disposable time and giving everyone the possibility for a more relaxed life and more varied jobs are the new goals worth fighting for socially and politically."...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 6:56am PDT
May Day March in Caracas, Venezuela (video/x-ms-wmv 2.4MB) The march included many unions, community, and youth organizations, along with political parties and groups which support the revolutionary coalition government of President Hugo Chavez Frias - which are collectively known in Venezuela as "the Chavistas"...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 3:22am PDT
More KPFA Video (video/quicktime 28.4MB) Interview with Steve Zeltzer (Labor Video Project) on the troubles at KPFA and Quicktime file of the listener feedback portion of meeting. From May 21...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:21pm PDT
Strike website Website for Thurs. May 26 UC state-wide strike...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 3:27pm PDT
Bart riiders website Website from a BART union to riders asking for support....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 2:48pm PDT
The Value of Workers The common assumption is that it is the investors that make the wealth of societies. That we owe them and it is *them* that take care of *us*. Isn't is strange how a dog gets addicted to its leash....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 2:48pm PDT
The Unconditional Basic Income Alternatives to the work society are necessary. A political movement is only credible today if it positions itself to the changes of the world of work and presents alternatives to the crisis of the work society. Basic income is a first step to freedom....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 6:42am PDT
Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq Seven US soldiers have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 8:27am PDT
KPFA board meeting from May 21 (video/x-pn-realvideo 30.9MB) Listener feedback to KPFA board May 21 05 Berkeley...
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 12:21am PDT
Pupl strike causing national emergency threath Finland’s Paper Union has been having and still is having a strike at the moment. The strike is causing severe damage to labor buttocks....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 11:49pm PDT
University of California Research and Technical Workers Set to Strike on May 26th UPTE-CWA Local 9119, a union representing nearly 10,000 employees at the University of California is set to strike on May 26th 2005, if UC continues to bargain in bad faith and refuses to sign a fair contract....
Posted: Fri, May 20, 2005 11:19am PDT
Alameda Labor Update anyone want to take separate events from this and post them to the calendar?...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 1:10pm PDT
University of California Continues to Discriminate in Hiring Women Faculty University of California Continues to Discriminate in Hiring Women Faculty, According to New Report...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 9:55pm PDT
Slaving for the Progressives For all its political rhetoric, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. is like any other business, but instead of the profits going to the shareholders, they go to the Democratic Party. In Marxist terms, GCI was able to hand over $22 million to the party instead of the targeted $5 million by extracting surplus labor value from its workers....
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 12:08pm PDT
What path toward an independent workers movement? (re Million Workers March) A leaflet of the Communist Voice Organization presented at the Detroit Conference of the Million Workers March held May 14-5. The leaflet opposes the alliance with certain Detroit city council members and union bureaucrats that has developed within the Detroit organization of MWM and opposes the same policy nationally....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:37pm PDT
Hotel Workers Protest at the Fairmont hotel Thursday, May 19th Where: The Fairmont (California and Mason Sts on Nob Hill)
When: Thursday May 19th 2pm-6pm...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 5:39pm PDT
The Wal-Mart Museum of Art Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, writes on his Art For A Change web log: "There is no better example of how politics is intertwined with art than the spectacle of an art museum being founded by a rapacious corporation well known for exporting US jobs overseas and profiting from foreign sweat shop labor."...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 11:42am PDT
Johnson & Johnson Beset by RNs: No quarter given to Schwarzenegger allies 
"Last year, after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed four bills that would have allowed Californians to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, Johnson and Johnson contributed almost $50,000 to defeat the measure. Now the industry has pledged $10 million to defeat a ballot initiative that would create drug price controls with real teeth. Johnson & Johnson has already donated $1.3 million to the campaign."
--California Nurses Association, May 11, 2005...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 7:51am PDT
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