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4/6 SF Muni Hearings-Stop the Cutbacks! April 6, 2004, 4 p.m., Room 400, City Hall, San Francisco, is where you should be if you care about public transportation and labor in San Francisco. Bus lines that are threatened with cuts in service, with a corresponding loss in jobs for those who provide this service, are the 4, 5, 7, 15, 9 and 14 lines, all needed by the workingclass....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 8:17pm PDT
4/24: Support the Maquiladora Workers at Daewoo Co. in Mexicali, Mexico! On April 24, a Binational Conference in Support of the Daewoo
Maquiladora Workers will be held in the border city of Mexicali,
Mexico -- just across from Calexico, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 12:44am PDT
Beyond the Class Struggle "The capitalist contradictions intensify as never before.. Capital destroys its own foundations in a piercer-movement.. Capital de-socializes society.. The result is a crisis sociology of the mass unemployed and social security recipients, pseudo-independents and flexibilized job hoppers.."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 6:45am PST
4/3 Enemy Combatant Radio to Stream Live from LaborTech Conference ::: ECR REMOTE :::
will be streaming
LIVE
from the
::: LABORTECH 2004 :::
Conference
from Stanford University.
April - 3...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 10:21pm PST
Libertarian think tank slams Open Source The Institute for Policy Innovation, a non-profit libertarian-leaning public policy organization, has put out a short four-page white paper questioning the ability of open source to meet the hurdles of the mass market....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 3:38pm PST
The Machine of Personal Responsibility: On the Historyof Liberal Ideology "Must the price of progress be the social degradation of the person to a Pavlovian dog of the market machine?..The absoloutism of the market is not an alternative to the absolutism of the state. We have the task of reinventing the old idea of social freedom for the 21st century.."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 5:23am PST
Thousands March and Rally in Salinas to Honor Cesar Chavez 
On March 28, several thousands of people from across the central coast rallied at the Cesar Chavez Community Park in Salinas to celebrate the legacy of Cesar Chavez. A couple thousand people marched through the streets in a high-spirited demonstration of unity. The support from community members observinging the march was tremendous. The goal of the annual event is to spread awareness among young people and Chavez's messages on social justice and nonviolence....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 10:18pm PST
Bush Addresses 8.2 Million Unemployed: 'Get A Job' WASHINGTON, DC—Responding to the nation's worst unemployment rate since the Hoover Administration, President Bush addressed the nation's 8.2 million unemployed workers in a televised speech Monday. "The economy has been on the rebound for months, but 5.6 percent of you are still out of work," Bush said. "Come on, people: Get a job! Don't just sit there hoping that you'll win the lottery. Turn off that boob tube, get off that couch, and start pounding the pavement."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 6:58pm PST
Korean&Argentinian Labor Video Events Korean and Argentinian Labor Films with discussions will be held in SF & Berkeley on 4/5/04 and 4/7/04...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 5:55pm PST
Bush, Frist, and Nickles Cut 1.1 Million Workers Off From Unemployment Extensions A short article about how Bush, Frist, and Nickles
have cut 1.1 million people off from unemployment
extensions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 5:40pm PST
Ban on Big-Box Stores has been repealed in Alameda County Amid fears of lawsuits, the Alameda County Supervisors have back down from ban on big-box stores which was passed in mid-December....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 11:46am PST
Administration Targets Federal Employees, Removes Protections for Sexual Orientation Recently, one of Scott Bloch’s first acts as newly appointed Special Counsel to the White House was to instill fear in ‘homosexual’ employees of the federal government. In an increasingly common curtailment of individual rights, the Bush Administration has removed decades-long protections from employment discrimination against those who serve our nation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 9:27am PST
CESAR CHAVEZ PARADE: March 28th. (video/quicktime 12.6MB) The Brass Liberation Orchestra and City College contingents.
QT movie: 1.5 min. 13 MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 6:46am PST
April 2nd - Lessons of the Southern California Grocery Workers Strike Safeway Will Attack the Bay Area Next...
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 10:47pm PST
Video: Oakland City Hall Rally for Immigrant Unjustly Fired by the City (video/x-ms-wmv 9.1MB) 50 supporters of a wrongfully terminated city employee rallied in front of and inside Oakland City Hall today. He is an Iranian immigrant, trade unionist, local activist, and KPFA Radio producer. Windows Movie, 2:50 min....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 9:56am PST
Oakland City Hall Rally for Iranian Immigrant Unjustly Fired by the City 
50 supporters of a wrongfully terminated city employee rallied in front of and inside Oakland City Hall today. He is an Iranian immigrant, trade unionist, local activist, and KPFA Radio producer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 12:31am PST
San Mateo County Hotel Workers Union Launches Westmont SFO Travelodge Watch HERE Local 340 launches website about brewing labor dispute at Westmont Hospitality Group's Travelodge SFO North....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 9:10am PST
LaborTech2004 this weekend! LaborTech/Access 2004 will be held April 2, 3 and 4 at Stanford University. Learn from and network with labor media activists from around the world....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 2:07am PST
Join the Communication Worker's March & Rally for a Just Contract - April 1 - Oakland 
March and Rally for Justice
April 1 - 5pm - 2150 Webster Ave., Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 1:08am PST
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