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5/20- Save the Date-- Rally at Safeway Shareholder Meeting On May 20th, thousands of grocery workers, labor allies, and community supporters will rally outside the Shareholder Meeting to send a clear message to Safeway investors:
We will keep the heat on Safeway CEO Steve Burd. We will fight for our future!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:17pm PDT
German Mayday The first reports are that there were thousands of police in Kreuzberg quarter of Berlin, and they quashed some mayday people.
This is a list of links to pictures of buildup to mayday and may day itself in Germany....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 7:45pm PDT
Truckers Block L.A. Freeway in Protest The gridlock occurred during the morning commute on Interstate 5 south of Los Angeles when truckers parked or jackknifed three big rigs, then sped away in a waiting car.
Police had been tipped the night before and were prepared with tow trucks that cleared the lanes within an hour along Interstate 5 in Commerce. Five truckers were arrested. [gee, wonder if they were monitoring trucker emails using the CA Anti-Terrorism Information Center . . . or surveilling phone calls, like the over 2 m...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 6:57pm PDT
Join the Telephone Workers - March & Rally - Oakland - May 6 
Telephone Workers March & Rally. May 6th....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 5:34pm PDT
HEALTH ADVOCATES ASSAULTED, STONED BY DOE RUN WORKERS Peruvian health advocates targeted by big polluter....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 11:05am PDT
KPFA May Day 2004 Programming KPFA 94.1 FM radio will be programming 5 hour of May Day programming on May 1, 2004. It is available as well on the internet....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 10:40am PDT
Rally for Justice at UC Medical Centers Rally for Justice at UC! May 20th - UC Service and Patient Care workers demand an end to Executive Greed....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 9:18pm PDT
US pounds Falluja amid pullout talks American warplanes have struck three areas in the beseiged city of Falluja amid talks to hand security over to former Iraqi army officers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 5:57pm PDT
Talking Back to Chomsky It strikes me that it is not at all obvious what we should do, and that by implying that it is, we risk making people feel stupid, when in fact they are quite right to ask the question, "What should I do?"...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 2:12pm PDT
Activists Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral Secretary General of STISSS Violently Arrested in a Peaceful Occupation of the San Salvador Cathedral...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 5:47pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Memo about Labor Board Charges 
This is a memo that Berkeley Bowl posted by the time clock last week for all employees to read....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:49pm PDT
UGSOA NEWSLETTER Keep up to date on all UGSOA's Current Member News...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 4:22pm PDT
Million Worker March meeting There will be a planning meeting for the Million Worker March on Sunday 4/25 at 4:30 p.m. at ILWU, Local 10, 400 North Point, San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2004 2:11am PDT
NLRB Decision Could Reverse Berkeley Bowl Union Defeat “The theory is that the union didn’t win because of the unfair labor practices and it’s pointless to hold a second election because there would be no way to get back to the status quo that existed before the alleged unfair labor practices,” said Leong(Assistant Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board office in Oakland)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Columbia - Family of Coke worker machine gunned A Colombian death squad struck at the family of a Coca-Cola union leader, killing two and wounding three kids....
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:29pm PDT
Rev. Billy Putting An End to WalMart Envy 
Rev. Billy and the Stop Big Boxes Gospel Choir pay a visit to a Safeway in Berkeley, where they call on Safeway to stop WalMart envy, and provide a fair contract to their employees with full health care coverage. Rev. Billy also allowed someone to speak about the struggle against McDonalds in Oakland,...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:47am PDT
Charges dropped against Oakland port protesters Over a year since Oakland police opened fire with wooden bullets and metal-shot bags against protesters at the Oakland docks, even though video demonstrated that they had been nonviolent, charges were dropped against 24 arrestees....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
COOK COUNTY COVER UP In response to a suggestion that the City of Chicago should act mature and take some resposibility for the tragic deaths of six County workers, Mayor Daley scoffed: "We have a great fire department."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 10:59am PDT
Nike Watch: Building Toward May Day Actions!!! May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
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