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Hotel Workers' Fight: Revolution at the Palace Saturday, November 13, 5:30PM and on... Upset the scab HAPSBURG IMPERIAL COURT banquet at the Palace Hotel in support of locked out hotel workers......
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 8:21am PST
Building Bridges Radio - Wal-Mart Discriminates with Liza Featherstone & Judy Gorman Sin Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK...
Posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 7:43pm PST
Anti-War Protesters March By Hotels To Show Support For Locked Out Workers 
The Falluja protest Tuesday night was also a solidarity protest for the locked out hotel workers. The march went past several hotels and the crowd chanted in support of the workers getting a contract...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:40pm PST
Mass looting of supermarkets in Rome, Italy A story from today's Guardian (UK)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 2:07pm PST
MUNI Fare Hike Next? Kerry concedes,
SF hotel lockout continues,
Newsom's Prop K con job,
MUNI fare hike next?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 12:25pm PST
Flying Picket Sunday Nov.7 7pm Meet at Powell & Geary (in Union Square) in San Francisco. We'll fly from hotel picket to picket, going to as many as we want to, making noise, meeting hotel workers, showing solidarity, and having fun....
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 10:10pm PST
Reenact Reverend Billy's Crime Against Starbucks Well, Reverend Billy finally got put on trial...in Los Angeles no less. So, while he's stuck in court, throw on a collar and white blazer, slick your hair back, and preach in your local Starbucks!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 8:13am PST
Working America Turns Out for Change Working America Turns Out for Change; Food and Commercial Workers Union Calls for Action to Rebuild Working America...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 10:17am PST
A.N.S.W.E.R. 'Adopts' a Local 2 Hotel—San Francisco Thursdays, October 28 to ???, 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
480 Sutter between Powell & Stockton
(in Union Square, a short walk from the Powell St. BART station)...
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 10:11pm PST
Flying Picket in Solidarity on 11/7, 7 PM 
This Sunday, Nov. 7 at 7:00 PM, will be the 5th Flying Picket in solidarity with the locked out hotel workers. They've been out for over a month and they need us to come together in unity as a working class community to support them....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 12:53pm PST
S. KOREA. 11.02/Last week's struggle report... ...by Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective (MSSC), nowadays since more than 350 days in strike against mass arrestings and deportation of migrant workers....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 4:56am PST
Vote Yes on Prop 72 - Op Ed by Eric Schlosser author of Fast Food Nation 
For more info on Prop 72 go to http://www.yesonprop72.com...
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 12:07am PST
Hotels lash Newsom The mayor barked. It was the hotel industry's turn to bite back.
Two days after a fiery Mayor Gavin Newsom slammed hotel operators over refusing to end the bitter lockout of 4,300 workers, the director of The City's most prominent hotel trade group declared its "trust in Mayor Newsom has been shaken."...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 4:34pm PST
S.F. union dispute disrupts 2 Waikiki
hotels Honolulu, October 29 – Shortly after 3 am this morning, a group of locked out hotel workers from the Sheraton Palace hotel in San Francisco began picketing the employee entrance of the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian hotels. Currently 4,000 hotel workers, members of UNITE HERE Local 2, have been locked-out by 14 hotels in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 10:37pm PDT
Critical Mass supports Local 2 
On a beautiful October night, Critical Mass riders followed a Halloween route in support of the locked out hotel workers of Local 2....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 4:32pm PDT
Halloween mass hotel tour gridlock 
Like always, there were many riders at the Halloween critical mass. It wasn't daylight savings time yet, but it was still dark by seven, so it was more difficult to take pictures.
For the first two hours, we stayed in the downtown, Nob Hill, shopping district area, going to all the hotels where workers are locked out....
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 11:16pm PDT
Solidarity Begins to Go Nationwide More than 4,000 workers are locked out in SF in their struggle against the multinational hotel chains that are trying to take away their healthcare (while only offering only a measly $.05 raise to tipped and $.20 raise to non-tipped employees). Fellow workers in Hawaii are honoring their picket lines against the Starwood chain, which owns the Sheraton Palace and St. Francis hotels here. This is what needs to continue happening to strengthen working class struggles against global capitalists. ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 1:17pm PDT
Upcoming Flying Pickets: Solidarity with Hotel Workers 7pm HALLOWEEN SUNDAY Flying Picket AND 7pm SUNDAY, November 7th, An Even Bigger Flying Picket
Meet at the corner of Powell & Geary in Union Square...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:28pm PDT
Halloween Critical Mass Halloween Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
6pm, this FRIDAY, October 29th
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza (the foot of Market Street @ Embarcadero)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:44am PDT
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