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Where are John Sweeney and the heads of Organized Labor If we are to be succesful in driving back the offensive of the employers, the role of the leaders of the trade union movement in obstructing this process cannot be ignored. Individuals or a small group of activists cannot substitute themselves for the leaders of organized labor. This does not mean that we do not try to lead struggles where we can....
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2002 8:34am PDT
7/22SF Protest Against CTC Lottery Speakout Against a Lottery that has thrown local community tv producers and programmers in San Francisco. Testify at the San Francisco Telecommunications Commission at SF City Hall....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 8:09pm PDT
Fight back! Rally to defend portworkers' rights - 7/24 FIGHTBACK!
Rally to Defend Portworkers' Rights...
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:33pm PDT
Portworkers Solidarity Rally--Wed. 7/24 There will be a rally at 12:00 noon on Wed., July 24, 2002 at 550 California Street, San Francisco. The Bush administration and the world’s largest corporations are now attempting to break theILWU, one of this nation’s strongest, most democratic and most egalitarian unions. If the government/corporate alliance succeeds in eliminating the ILWU hiring hall, this union will essentially be broken, and a cascade of others can not be far behind....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:27pm PDT
July 19-26 LaborFest Schedule TIPS is being tossed because enough people have learned the lessons of the last fascist era in the 1950s, with its primary goal of destroying labor organizations, to protest as soon as we smell a whiff of that same old fascist stench. To learn that history, other labor history, and participate in today's labor cultural activities, come to the best thing happening in July in the SF Bay Area, LaborFest....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 8:15pm PDT
Unemployment: The Shame Queue in Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff) Copyright-free photos by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 6:03pm PDT
Walk for Farmworker Justice: round-up of portland indymedia coverage Collected portland indymedia coverage of the 2002 Walk for Farmworker Justice in Woodburn, Oregon, on July 13....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 9:17pm PDT
NORTH WEST ANARCHIST-COMMUNIST ORGANIZING NETWORK (NWACON) NWan-comm list Greetings
After some discussion, and looking at the example of the NEFAC, we have
set up a list in order to try to start a process to create an northwest federation....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 7:10pm PDT
Marriott Strike Update 
The strike at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel entered its sixth week yesterday....
Posted: Sun, Jul 14, 2002 11:34pm PDT
Whole Foods Workers in Madison, Wisconsin Win Union The final vote count: 65 in favor, and 54 against....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 11:31pm PDT
Mayor Punishes Community Program for Worker Protest On 7/15, outraged service providers and laborers rally against mayor's funding retaliation against the San Francisco Day Labor Program....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 11:17am PDT
Screeners heave sigh of relief SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - After eight months of anxiety, the airport screeners can heave a sigh of relief, for the moment.
The planned lay-off which would have affected the non-citizen screeners is not going to happen....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 1:32am PDT
July 12-19: LaborFest Schedule A labor movement is the surest and best way to end police brutality, environmental destruction, all kinds of discrimination, and a society that puts guns before butter, namely capitalism. To do that, we must organize the unorganized. Learn how and labor history and culture at LaborFest....
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2002 8:05pm PDT
Anti-Capitalist Conference Reportback & SF Plans Announcing the formation of an organizing collective for an SF Anti-Capitalist Conference and reportback from Anti-Capitalist Conference in Toronto...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:58pm PDT
Approximating Life The inventor of Alice, the world's most lifelike artificial-intelligence program, alienates his allies and frightens his colleagues. If only Richard Wallace could get along with people as well as Alice can....
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 4:52pm PDT
Flashpoints: SF Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour Flashpoints Radio July 4 and 5:
- live broadcasts from Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour - SomArts Center 934 Brannon Street San Francisco
- segments with Navaho women Weaving for Resistance, Steve Zeltzer and Labor Fest, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, SF Mime Troop - Mr. Smith goes to Obscuristan, Michael Franti, more
Celebration continues until midnight Saturday...
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 1:44pm PDT
Ariel Sharon Attacks Israeli Workingclass The World Socialist Website reports that as the Israeli economy declines, the viciously anti-Arab lackey of US oil imperialism, Ariel Sharon, is leading the attack on the Jewish workingclass, because promoting the interests of oil imperialism is by definition anti-labor....
Posted: Sat, Jul 6, 2002 6:07am PDT
7/10 Rally at Chinese Consulate for Jailed Unionists Please come to the rally and press conference on Wednesday, July 10 at 12 noon in front of the Chinese Consulate (1450 Laguna @ Geary Blvd. - near Japantown) to protest the jailing of the Liaoyang 5, five Chinese union representatives....
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2002 2:48pm PDT
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