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UC Workers Striking Tomorrow List of all the pickets and contacts...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:16pm PDT
UC Workers Rally, Win Promise of Meeting with Chancellor A noon rally of angry UC Berkeley workers in front of California Hall last Friday had a surprise result—a chance sidewalk encounter between union leaders and Chancellor Robert Birgenau in which Birgenau agreed to a formal, fact-finding meeting with worker representatives....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:49pm PDT
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project' Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'; UFCW Calls on the NLRB to Aggressively Investigate Whether Wal-Mart Bribed Employees to Suppress Worker Support for Union Representation...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:03am PDT
Rockin' the Boat: CA Workers Comp Threatened (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) Injured workers rallied in San Francisco, April 4, as the state Division of Workers' Compensation, held
the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent disability payments for workplace injuries....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:10am PDT
Rhizome Collective Interview on In "The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 16.6MB) Interview on February 1, 2005 with Scott Kellog from Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas an educational collective that promotes permaculture and sustainable living, projects include Center for Community Organizing, Center for Urban Sustainability, an after school program and a brownfield restoration project. (Part 1 of the special 2 hour show; AK Press interview follows in second hour)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:51pm PDT
8 Days of Sitting In at WashU for a Living Wage 
The following is from a student participating in the ongoing sit-in/occupation in the main administrative building of Washington University in St. Louis. The sit-in is in support of campus workers who do not currently receive a living wage. Currently the sit-in has been going on for 8 days(since April 4). Below this message is a list of ways you can take action and a summary of what we've been doing over the past 10 days....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:27pm PDT
BTL:Commemorate May Day, with "Inquisitions," a radio play dramatizing... ...the struggle for workers rights and civil liberties....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 3:58am PDT
MAY DAY 2005 Organizing Come Help Local Organizing Efforts for MAY DAY 2005...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 5:15pm PDT
Thousands turn out in San Francisco to greet Arnold (video/quicktime 13.7MB) Were the special interests inside or outside?
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 14MB....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 10:24am PDT
4/14: Workers at UC Campuses Need Your Support 
Picketing begins 6am, Thursday, April 14,
continues until 11:30 pm...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 11:01pm PDT
May Day Benefit Screenings Of "THE TAKE" There will be two special screenings of "The Take" in San Francisco and Oakland to benefit the Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 3:55pm PDT
Entartete Kunst Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) Interview on March 1, 2005 with Malatesta and Raw Knowledge from Entartete Kunst; artist collective and collectively run record label with music from their most recent CD, States of Abuse....
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 1:49pm PDT
UC Workers Fight for Justice (video/quicktime 44.7MB) UCSF workers protested on 3/24/05 and this video interviews why the workers are angry about their management and conditions. 15 min. 44.6 MB...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 1:08pm PDT
Joan Meyers Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 22.4MB) Interview on March 15, 2005; Joan Meyers, PHD student in Sociology at UC Davis; comparing differences in organization between two large cooperatives that have changed since their formation 30 years ago....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 8:54pm PDT
St. Peter's Housing Committee Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 11.6MB) Interview on April 5, 2005 with Maria and Lupe from Saint Peter's Housing Committee, a tenant advocacy group in San Francisco's Mission District serving Spanish-speaking tenants. Organizing, counselling and legal support. Recently switched from Staff/Director model to Collective....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 6:28pm PDT
4/17 Benecia Screening Of "Almost Brokent" "Almost Broken" about the 13 year struggle of injured worker Larry...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 1:13am PDT
4/28 Workers Memorial Day Protest This statewide rally will honor the workers who have been killed or injured on the job and will protest the destruction of workers comp and the lack of healthcare for all....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 12:45am PDT
Demonstrators greet the governor in SR | SSU students join gay rights fracas Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger brought his government reform road show to
Santa Rosa on Thursday and was met by protesters with picket signs,
megaphones and a mobile billboard....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 11:54pm PDT
Arnie Under Siege Report from the April 5th protest at Arnold Schwarzenegger's fundraiser in San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:59pm PDT
5000+ PROTEST AT THE RITZ 
RALLY AGAINST ARONLD'S CORPORATE CORRUPTION...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:54pm PDT
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