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Rank And File Picket AFL-CIO Execs at Chicago's Drake Hotel 
Images from the Rank And File picket at Chicago's Drake Hotel where the AFL-CIO Executive Committee is meeting......
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2003 9:39pm PDT
Gov Davis Labor Friends Attack Labor Journalist, Thwart SF Janitors Strike This week's labor news: Gov Davis ran to his labor faker friends at the AFL-CIO Executive Committee meeting in Chicago for support against the recall. Harry Kelber, the widely respected labor journalist, was refused the ability to report on that meeting because he wrote a pamphlet calling for more union democracy. And, that organized crime, election-frauding friend of Gray Davis, "mayor" Willie Brown, stepped in to "mediate" the janitors' dispute, while his union bureau...
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2003 8:29pm PDT
More of The Same San Francisco janitors face an uphill battle as Union leaders invite the fox in to the hen house.More of The Same...
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2003 7:53pm PDT
News from radicals in Iraq The following news article, from the end of July, is from a Marxist group attempting to organize opposition to the Islamic fundamentalists whom the US is grooming to seize power after a future humiliating retreat by US/UK forces....
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2003 2:10pm PDT
Fresno County illegally tries to crush us home care workers 
3 illegal fear tactics:
Fresno County tries to crush us home care workers by refusing to bargain, cutting our hours, investigating us....
Posted: Sat, Aug 2, 2003 8:22am PDT
SEIU Homecare Workers Say, “We Won’t Be Intimidated or Coerced.” 
SEIU Local 250 files charges with the California Public Employment Board stating that Fresno County had, "illegally cut off wage negotiations, intentionally cut hours of care to clients and intimidated caregivers."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 11:43pm PDT
CE 216: Revolucion y Contrarevolucion en Venezuela - Argentina - Cuba - Colombia VENEZUELA: REVOLUCION Y CONTRARREVOLUCION EN VENEZUELA.- COLOMBIA: MILITARES COLOMBIANOS CRITICAN LA INTERVENCIÓN MILITAR DE EE.UU.
NUESTRA AMERICA: CONCLUYE CON ÉXITO EL IV FORO MESOAMERICANO.- BOLIVIA: AVANCEMOS HACIA LA DEMOCRACIA DIRECTA.
GUATEMALA: EL PRESIDENTE PORTILLO DEBE FRENAR DESMANES DEL FRG.- ARGENTINA-CUBA: "¡VIVA CUBA!". Discurso de Hebe de Bonafini....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 12:47pm PDT
Who killed California? I was a bit surprised to Patrick J Buchanan authored this one. I don't agree with Buchanan's views often, but it's kinda interesting to see him BASH Bush at a time like now....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 11:19am PDT
Janitor's Health Care Under Attack 
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, hundreds of janitors representing SEIU Local 1877 took to the streets of San Francisco to show that they are ready to strike to protect their health care benefits....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2003 12:31am PDT
Riordan, Feinstein at center of parties' recall buzz Even as the parties planned strategy, the field of potential replacement candidates for Davis mushroomed: To date, a total of 123 Californians have taken out papers to run for governor in the recall, according to the Secretary of State's Office....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2003 10:28pm PDT
Demonstrate against Medicare Privatization Demonstrate Tuesday noon, August 5th, against Congress privatizing Medicare in the guise of a phony drug benefit program....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 9:58pm PDT
Heads of Organized Labor Sit Passively By as Big Business Politicians Burden Workers an As big business polticians in Sacramento go on the offensive against workers and the poor. The heads of organized labor let them off the hook yet again. The general feeling among workers and the poor that nothing can be done is a direct result of the failure of the labor leadership to counter the intensified attacks of capital....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 8:09pm PDT
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS COALITION JOINS PATAGONIA IN HONORING LIFE OF RELL SUNN RELL SUNN WAS A PIONEER IN WOMEN'S SURFING AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST. SHE PASSED AWAY AFTER A BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER. A SCREENING OF "HEART OF THE SEA" A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HER LIFE WILL BE SCREENED, JULY 31, 2003 AT 7:00pm....
Posted: Mon, Jul 28, 2003 1:50am PDT
TOTAL RECALL Let's transform the "Recall Davis" campaign into one of "Total Recall" of all Democratic and Republican candidates....
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2003 2:45pm PDT
Radio For Peace International - eviction! Radio for Peace International - wrongly evicted from University for Peace grounds. Staff has been at the station 24 hours a day since their notice in attempts to save their building. Please help save the 15-year-old station! Write to sg@un.org if you support international peace radio....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 7:23am PDT
BTL:House Passes White House Plan To Deprive Millions of Workers Overtime Pay. Interview with Jared Bernstein, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2003 4:59am PDT
Consumers Win From Pharmaceutical Free Trade Bill The US House of Representatives passed a bill, HR2427, allowing the average citizen to purchase prescription drugs out of country at a reduced cost....
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2003 6:44am PDT
CE 215: Charla en Córdoba: Bolivar - Venezuela - Nuestra América ARGENTINA: CHARLA DEBATE: VIGENCIA DEL PENSAMIENTO DE SIMON BOLIVAR. Por Junta Bolivariana de Córdoba.
NUESTRA AMERICA: LA PATRIA BOLIVAR. Discurso de Fernando Bossi.
PUERTO RICO-VENEZUELA: PUERTO RICO Y VENEZUELA SON. Por José Ignacio Jiménez.
NUESTRA AMERICA: HOMENAJE AL LIBERTADOR. CANTO A BOLIVAR. De Pablo Neruda....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2003 3:35pm PDT
Hungry In Hazelton, Canada When the anti-union B.C. Liberal provincial government sold pulp producer Skeena Cellulose, the buyer closed the doors of the Carnaby mill in Hazelton. Over 100 workers were left without jobs....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 10:17pm PDT
Where is Juan when we need him? 
Fresno County Supervisor does not support a living wage for home care workers...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 9:36pm PDT
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