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Workers in Colombia Start National Hunger Strike: Will Coca Cola Let them Die? Coca Cola bottling workers in Colombia start national hunger strike. Communique: "We're doing this to denounce, nationally and internationally, that nine Coca-Cola workers have been killed and 67 have been threatened with death; and that we've been the victims of attempted murder, kidnappings, forced displacement..."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 9:04am PST
BOYCOTT THE CLAREMONT! Visibility Blitz Actions: BOYCOTT THE CLAREMONT!
Visibility Blitz Actions:
What? Hanging posters and planting lawn signs throughout the community....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 10:17pm PST
15Mar DASW - Working Group meeting to plan April 7th return to the docks Calling all agitators, artists, anarchists, anti-imperialists, anti-racists, articulators, astrologers, antithesizers and A-listers to help plan and promote the April 7th RETURN TO THE DOCKS action....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 8:56pm PST
War & the Economy: Popular Education Workshops for Labor Activists and Educators U.S. Labor Against the War and United for a Fair Economy's workshop "War and the Economy" comes to the Bay Area....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 12:28pm PST
Call for Labor Contingent for March 20 March 20, 2004 Global Day of Action: On the First Anniversary of the U.S. Bombing and Invasion of Iraq
LABOR CONTINGENT
meet at 11 a.m. in Dolores Park
(18th & Dolores), San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 12:21pm PST
AFL-CIO Leaders hand victory to employers AFL-CIO Leadership gives another victory to the employers in the So. California grocery workers strike....
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 5:33pm PST
Public Rally for the Bay Area Grocery Workers: 3/14 2:30-4pm Official campaign Kick Off for 2004 Contract campaign...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 12:06am PST
12Mar - Reportback from "An Evening of Solidarity and Culture with Workers and Students" 
This unique gathering challenges the “pale, male, and stale” image of the labor movement in welcoming and valuing the diverse and critical contributions of all our communities and struggles....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 11:25pm PST
Anti-Social Security group defrauds the elderly with 'ARP' designation The Alliance for Retirement Prosperity was founded by Republicans like Grover Norquist (president of Americans for Tax Reform) and Steve Moore (president of the Club for Growth), who view the elderly as dangerously selfish welfare-addicts....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 5:32pm PST
3/15 Blue-Green Alliance Challenges Corporate Power (SSA, Coca Cola, etc) Trade unionists and environmental activists will hold a sidewalk press
conference Monday, March 14 at the Oakland Coca Cola corporate offices (7901
Oakport-off 880 near Oak. Airport) to release a report on corporate behavior...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 5:10pm PST
Sunday's event discussing UC Berkeley's ties to biotech A Lunchtime strategy session about corporate control of research at UC
Berkeley and
Ignacio Chapela's tenure case...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 5:07pm PST
This Weekend: Statewide Labor Teach-in: Connecting Campus and Community Join us in coming together March 12-14, 2004 at UC Berkeley for the first annual “Connecting Campus & Community: California Student Labor Teach-In!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:50pm PST
Josepg Green Refuted 
Joseph Green bases his entire thesis that Mao Tse-tung was behind the “three worlds theory” on one quotation attributed to Mao and published one year after Mao’s death in an article published in the Peking Review, November 4, 1977 entitled Chairman Mao's Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds Theory is a Major Contribution to Marxism-Leninism. Although Green keeps his references secret from the rest of us, and we are left to divine his sources, he asserts:
1. Mao did not fight “...
Posted: Thu, Mar 11, 2004 4:08pm PST
Haiti rebel army already using weapons to defend Levi's profits Union-busting at the CODEVI Free Trade Zone
Haiti rebel army already using weapons in bosses' defense!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:48am PST
Your Factory, Under Worker Control: Lessons from Argentina Every day, the 330 workers of Zanón Ceramics Factory
(Cerámica Zanón) who both work at and run the largest ceramic floor-tile factory in Argentina are, legally speaking,
usurping the factory and its machinery....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:19am PST
Kroger: Strikes contributed to $337.4 million quarterly loss Kroger Co. said Tuesday that labor unrest, including a 4 1/2 monthlong strike in southern California, contributed to a loss of $337.4 million in the fourth quarter. The retail grocer also said it expects its 2004 results to be lower than in 2003. Kroger is the parent of the Valley's Fry's food stores....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:10am PST
Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman on Economic Policy "The number of jobs in the US has fallen three million since the Texan assumed command. The president obviously doesn't want to admit that the Bush philosophy based on tax cuts for the rich doesn't work.Cheating, cronyism andincompetence mark the White House, not economic reason.."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 5:34am PST
A HEROIC DEFENSE AND A CRUEL SYSTEM The southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current "jobless recovery."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 10:06pm PST
Support the New International 
The American red fraction, deriving its political genealogy from Marx, Engles, Lenin, Stalin and Mao in direct succession to Comrade Chiang Ching and finally Chairman Gonzalo, assert that it is the interest of American communists to support the development of a new International to place to place Maoism in the position of being the sole command and guide of world revolution; to pursue the struggle to beat back right deviationist attempts to reverse correct verdicts to its completion and found...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 6:11pm PST
'Live Wire' - Communication Workers Local 9415 Newsletter - March 
'Live Wire' - Communication Workers Local 9415 - Monthly Newsletter - March Edition...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 1:52pm PST
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