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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
18-year-old filmmaker's feature film to be shown at film festival in San Francisco 18-year-old Canadian director to have feature film screened at Hollywood Underground Film Festival in San Francisco. He beet the odds by not having any experience or any money, and to make matters worse he has a terminal lung disease. The film is set to close out the festival at 10 pm on October 28....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:56am PDT
ILWU locked Out 
The ILWU was locked out of the docks on the West Coast Monday morning, September 30. Below are some images taken at the Port of Oakland Wednesday evening, October 2....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 5:50pm PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Support SF Day Laborers at 10/17 Planning Commission Meeting Please attend this critical meeting which will determine the future site location of the SF Day Labor Program....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 11:02am PDT
ILWU Cartoon 
Attached is a copy of the ILWU cartoon titled "PMA's idea of Federal Mediation" which has been released by the ILWU local 10 leadership to the media for publication....
Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2002 6:16am PDT
ILWU Set up Pickets in Oakland 
9/30 Locked out portworkers set up pickets at the gates to protect from non union workers and independent truckers from attempting to enter the docks....
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2002 5:16pm PDT
Action Alert! Burlington Coat Factory - Cloaked in Oppression 
This winter, help stop dictatorship in Burma: Burlington Coat Factory is helping support Burma's military regime by retailing huge quantities of "Made in Burma" products. Please take a minute to tell this company to end support for forced labor and stop the retail of products from Burma!
Write Burlington Coat Factory at Customer.Mail@coat.com...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 10:13am PDT
support the dock workers US shippers lock out dockworkers on West Coast...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:44am PDT
5 deaths of longshore workers prove hazardous conditions There have been 5 deaths of longshore workers this year on the docks, demonstrating the hazardous working conditions. The World Socialist Website provides one perspective on what is to be done....
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:06am PDT
ILWU Back to Work on Sunday in Oakland (video/x-pn-realvideo 27.2MB) Richard Mead, President of ILWU local 10 (Oakland) spent about an hour and a half this morning with several reporters. We were from KQED, AP and SF-IMC. This 9 min video is about the first day back after the lockout....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 8:40pm PDT
Longshore lock out resumes The lockout of the dockworkers resumes. My spouse and my son (members of Local 10, ILWU) report for picket duty tomorrow....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 8:24pm PDT
9/27/02 ILWU Press Release on Lockout Below is the 9/27/02 Press Release on the employer lockout at the docks....
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 8:05pm PDT
ILWU LOCKOUT--Come to the ports!! The westcoast dockworkers have been LOCKED OUT! The ILWU requests that supporters get down to the Oakland docks immediately. Please go to the Maersk/Sealand terminal OR to the Seafarer's Hall near the Matson terminal (from SF, go over the Bay Bridge, take the Maritime exit, take a right at 7th St, and go to the end of 7th (4001 7th)). We will convene an emergency meeting of the Portworkers' Solidarity Committe in the next day or so after we have figured out more details.
-sue sandlin
co-...
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 7:08pm PDT
Shippers Lock Out West Coast Longshoremen The association representing shipping lines decided Friday to lock out longshoremen at all West Coast ports until Sunday morning as contract negotiations deteriorated....
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 5:07pm PDT
Capitalism's Injustices A discussion of the injustices caused by the capitalist economic system....
Posted: Thu, Sep 26, 2002 9:42am PDT
Mr. Block cartoons 
To the best of knowledge it was the first comic book intended as explicitly revolutionary propaganda....
Posted: Tue, Sep 24, 2002 11:33am PDT
Mr. Block cartoons To the best of knowledge it was the first comic book intended as explicitly revolutionary propaganda....
Posted: Tue, Sep 24, 2002 11:32am PDT
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