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10/10 SF International Solidarity Rally For The ILWU The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has long given support to labor and social justice struggles around the world. Now the ILWU is shackled with Taft-Hartley and finds itself in a life and death struggle....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 11:02pm PDT
Stop business of war & engage business of peace 
We immigrants this week displayed some 4,000 postcards (of a national total of over 1,000,000) calling on congress to legalize undocumented workers in this country. 1 page of photos; 1 page of video....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 5:21pm PDT
GREENS URGE NATIONAL SUPPORT FOR DOCKWORKERS IN STANDOFF "Blame union-busting Wal-Mart, Gap, Chiquita, etc., not the ILWU, for holding the economy hostage," say Greens...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 11:22am PDT
Half a Million Workers march through Madrid Half a Million Workers...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 10:52am PDT
Stop business of war; engage in business of peace 
We immigrants this week displayed some 4,000 postcards (of a national total of over 1,000,000) calling on congress to legalize undocumented workers in this country. 1 page of stills and 1 of video....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 9:09am PDT
Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened In this Alert:
1. Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
2. Fighting to Keep Their Rights
3. PANAMCO, Coke in Colombia
4. Take Action Now!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:45pm PDT
ILWU/PMA court hearing NOW Come to a court hearing this afternoon in which a Taft-Hartley injunction will be considered. 4pm at 450 Golden Gate....
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:12pm PDT
ILWU Remains Strong despite Bush Administration Threats 
10/5 A strong rally of ILWU members and there supporters reflected the determination of the dockworkers as talks with the PMA broke down on Sunday....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 4:26pm PDT
Voices of Anarchist Union Organizers I asked a few folks to tell me a little about themselves and their views
on organizing for unions. These six people identify as either an anarchist (with or without adjectives) or as an anti-authoritarian (an anarchist that doesn't know it yet!). They all work as union organizers or have worked as union organizers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 1:43pm PDT
Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:10pm PDT
Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:05pm PDT
10/6 4PM LaborLine Radio On Oakland ILWU Rally LaborLine Radio will program some of the statements made at the ILWU Support Rally in Oakland on Saturday October 5, 2002...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 11:54am PDT
Enviromentalists to Join ILWU on Picket Line 10/7 Environmentalists to join portworkers at picket line in Oakland on 10/7; Statement of Support for the ILWU from Organizations and Leaders in the Environmental Movement...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:49pm PDT
WE WIN! FREE SPEECH VICTORY IN FRESNO 
Anti-sweatshop/Free Speech victory in Fresno...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:48pm PDT
Bush, Feinstein, and the PMA: Declaring war on workers is a battle you are bound to lose 
The Pacific Maritime Association has LOCKED OUT ILWU portworkers in an attempt to back them down in their struggle for a fair contract....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 3:01pm PDT
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers at Port of Oakland on Saturday, October 5, 2002, 10 am. Activists/supporters are coming from all over the Bay Area and Northern California to support the locked out ILWU vs. the PMA....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:08pm PDT
Emergency Picketline Rally The Portworkers Solidarity Committee -- a broad-based coalition of
unionists and activists that was formed to build support for the ILWU
in its contract dispute with the PMA -- calls on you to join with a
caravan of Teamster truck drivers from Stockton, the San Francisco
Labor Council and the Alameda Central Labor Council at an Emergency
Picketline Rally on Saturday, October 5 at 10 a.m. at Port View Park
in the Port of Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 8:33pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
BILLY BRAGG: POWER IN A UNION (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.3MB) FOR THE ILWU -- BILLY BRAGG, NYC, FEB. 1, 2002 DEMONSTRATIONS VS THE WEF
3 min....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 12:20pm PDT
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