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Farmworkers March for Justice 
Farmworkers march to end racial profiling by the CHP...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 11:45pm PDT
Bush Administration Endangers the Middle Class "Nation-wide the social descent of many families seems a real threat.. The number of newly created jobs still lags behind the population growth. More Americans are comp[letely dismissed from the labor market. Good-paying jobs are hard to find.."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 10:38am PDT
Civil Disobedience in SF: HERE Local 2 (video/quicktime 12.7MB) Local 2 Takes to the Streets on Labor Day. Over 130 Arrested. Part 1.
Hundreds of hotel workers and their allies took to the streets this Labor Day to demonstrate their growing impatience with the San Francisco Hotels Multi-Employer Group, which is taking a hard line in negotations with Local 2. Over a hundred were arrested as they blocked cable car traffic around Union Square, in the heart of San Francisco's tourist district.
Three weeks after the expiration of Local 2's citywide contra...
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally 
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 3:18pm PDT
Alameda County Labor Day Alameda County Labor Day Focuses on Affordable Healthcare: Over 2,500 unionists join together at the Oakland Coliseum to support YES on Prop 72. Diane Powe, Safeway worker and UFCW Local 870 member throws out first pitch of ballgame...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 10:52am PDT
Labor Day Marks Improvements For Gay Workers As gay and lesbian workers mark Labor Day, newly released statistics show that a record number of companies support issues important to gay families....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 11:40pm PDT
Images from the SF Hotel Workers' Demonstration 
The hotel workers of San Francisco gathered today for a march which culminated in an act of civil disobedience and several arrests....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 10:50pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio- N.Y. Labor Protests Bush and the RNC BUILDING BRIDGES RADIO BRINGS YOU THIS 29 MINUTES RADIO PROGRAM. TO LISTEN CLICK ON URL LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 4:24pm PDT
October: California Protests Operation Guardian Preparation continues for the march/rally planned for San Ysidro, Ca.
on Sat. Oct. 2nd against 10 years of Operation Guardian and the neoliberal
policies and theft against the people of LatinoAmerica.
ALSO on Oct.16th, there will be a statewide march against
Immigration Raids, for legalization for all and against the government's
anti-immigrant policies....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:59pm PDT
SF: 150 arrested during Hotel Workers protest 150 workers and their supporters arrested today for protesting Hotel management's stalling tactics during contract negotiations....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:56pm PDT
Remember Retail Workers on Labor Day Today is Labor Day in the United States (of course the authentic workers’ holiday is May 1). What does “Labor” mean though to most Americans?...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:52pm PDT
SF Labor Day 2004: Thousands Picket Hotels; Many Arrested for a Union Contract Thousands of hotel workers, Local 2, turned out in San Francisco in the searing heat to demand the big hotels sign a union contract. About a hundred were arrested for sitting on the cable car tracks in front of the St. Francis Hotel....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 2:56pm PDT
9/26 Forum "Independent Union, Democracy & The AFL-CIO" The growing crisis within the AFL-CIO is connected with the fact that thousands of trade unionists are now voting to leave the AFL-CIO. This forum will look at why this taking place and what needs to be done to unite workers against the attack they face....
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 3:30pm PDT
the last years of the Situationist International In the wake of the May 1968 uprising in France, the members of the Situationist International conducted an "orientation debate" as to what they should do "in the new era." By April 1972, they'd decided to disband. Here, for the first time ever in English, are the letters and documents they exchanged....
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 3:21pm PDT
Community Events Calendar - Lots of Great Events! This community events calendar is courtesy of Faye Kennedy, Sacramento Area Black Caucus. There are lots of great events this month and in October!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 4, 2004 2:50pm PDT
Hotel workers to vote on strike in SF Union employees at 14 major downtown San Francisco hotels, currently engaged in difficult contract talks, said Thursday they will vote Sept. 14 on whether to authorize a strike....
Posted: Fri, Sep 3, 2004 9:31am PDT
History is Global "Global history is more than a history of globalization. Global history doesn't only describe particular phenomena like the history of food or the international working class movement but requires a fundamental reorientation.."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 3, 2004 5:40am PDT
9/6KPFA Labor Day Programming The KPFA Labor Collective will be producing programming on 9/6/2004 from 10 AM To 3:00 PM covering issues facing working people. It is available on the web at www.kpfa.org...
Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2004 4:37pm PDT
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