by Clay Wadena and John LeslieOn Nov. 7, a national demonstration, called by the Black is Back Coalition, will be held in Washington, D.C. There will be a march and a rally in Malcolm X Park. People are marching under the call, “Resist U.S. Wars and Occupation in the U.S. and Abroad! Reparations Now!”Some additional … Continue reading Black is Back: an antiwar mobilization & more
Month: October 2009
Free Troy Davis!
Union Busters Close Stella D’Oro Bakery
by Marty GoodmanWhat began in August 2008 as a strike at the Stella D’Oro bakery in the Bronx became an 11-month protracted war and one of the great labor battles in recent New York history. The Stella D’Oro workers became a national symbol of resistance to a heartless economic system.Stella bosses had demanded slashing wages … Continue reading Union Busters Close Stella D’Oro Bakery
Emergency Meeting on Troy Davis, Kevin Cooper and Mumia
Innocent! BUT FACING EXECUTION:Kevin Cooper - Troy Davis - Mumia Abu-Jamal Hear: -Laura Moye, Director, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign; actively working for several years with Troy Davis and his family in Georgia -Hans Bennett, Founder, Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal; Editor, Free Mumia News; Author, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: Innocent Man on Death … Continue reading Emergency Meeting on Troy Davis, Kevin Cooper and Mumia
The More Things Change . . .
Philadelphia Transit Workers Vote to Authorize SEPTA Strike
On Sunday October 25, members of the Transit Workers Union, TWU Local 234,voted to authorize a strike, due to stalled contract negotiations with SEPTA. TWU Local 234, which represents 4,700 workers in the city, has been operating without a contract since March of 2009. As a TWU flyer explains, SEPTA management has rejected any salary … Continue reading Philadelphia Transit Workers Vote to Authorize SEPTA Strike
Leon Trosky Speech
Oct. 17 Boston Anti-War Protest
Bombs Over Tehran? Hands Off Iran!
Stop Death Threats Against Militant Trade Unionists in Columbia
More than 40 trade unionists have been killed this year in Colombia by para-military death squads. Every day, more union activists are threatened with death by these forces, who carry out the orders of big business and the political establishment.On Aug. 31, Jairo del Rio, the president of SINTRATUCAR (the union representing workers at the … Continue reading Stop Death Threats Against Militant Trade Unionists in Columbia
Stella D’Oro Workers Face October Shutdown
NEW YORK — After an heroic strike that lasted 11 months, bakery workers at the Stella D’Oro company in the Bronx face imminent plant closure and the loss of 135 jobs. The shut-down has been ordered by the new Stella D’Oro owners, the non-union Lance, Inc. of North Carolina, makers of snack-sized junk food. Lance, … Continue reading Stella D’Oro Workers Face October Shutdown
SK Hand Tool Workers Strike
CHICAGO — As Congress debates health-care reform in Washington, members of Teamsters Local 743 here are taking the fight for health care to the picket line. On Aug. 25, some 75 members walked off the job at SK Hand Tools, which supplies for Sears’ Craftsman brand, in response to the companies’ suspension of health-care coverage … Continue reading SK Hand Tool Workers Strike
The War on Workers at Home & Abroad
Right-Wing D.C. Protest Poses Grave Threat to Workers
Capitalism’s poisons in their myriad forms are injected into the broad worker’s movement usually in small but steady doses. Racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant prejudice, anti-Semitism, and homophobia all serve to divide and conquer—to direct the anger and frustration generated by the system’s inherent inequities and brutalities at its victims as opposed to its perpetrators. But … Continue reading Right-Wing D.C. Protest Poses Grave Threat to Workers
Duluth Restaurant Workers Defeat Union-Busting Campaign
DULUTH, Minn. — On Sept. 21, the Pickwick Restaurant here agreed to settle with the union, and re-hire the workers it had illegally fired for union activity. This huge victory came on the heels of 12 grueling weeks of daily picketing by Workers United Local 99—the region’s hospitality workers’ union.The labor dispute began earlier this … Continue reading Duluth Restaurant Workers Defeat Union-Busting Campaign
UC Students Walk Out!
BERKELEY, Calif. — On Sept. 24, the first day of classes, University of California students and faculty across the state walked out against fee hikes, cutbacks in services and classes, increased class sizes, and faculty and staff layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts.Out of the 10 UC campuses statewide, Berkeley had the largest walkout by far; … Continue reading UC Students Walk Out!