Month: January 2010

“We Won’t Go Back!” Battle for Reform Continues in Teamsters Local 743

January 18, 2010: Teamsters in Chicago Local 743 have been battling to free their 11,000-member local from mob and old guard control for many years. Now the top Chicago officials are escalating the fight. But members are uniting to say “We Won’t Go Back.” Local 743 members are saying “We Won’t Go Back” to the … Continue reading “We Won’t Go Back!” Battle for Reform Continues in Teamsters Local 743 →

France on Strike (1995)

Video of the December 1995 strike in France by Public Workers and Students: http://a.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?file=http%3A//blip.tv/rss/flash/3145653%3Freferrer%3Dblip.tv%26source%3D1%26use_direct%3D1%26use_documents%3D1&enablejs=true&showplayerpath=http%3A//a.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf&autostart=true&feedurl=http%3A//laborvideo.blip.tv/rss&playerUrl=http%3A//a.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf&staggeredLoad=truehttp://blip.tv/file/3126048

Supreme Court Opens Door to Mumia’s Execution

by Jeff MacklerIn a dangerous decision and a break with its own precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court, on Jan. 15 opened the door wide to Pennsylvania prosecutors’ efforts to execute innocent political prisoner, murder frame-up victim, award-winning journalist and world renowned “Voice of the Voiceless,” Mumia Abu-Jamal. Six months earlier, on April 6, the Supreme … Continue reading Supreme Court Opens Door to Mumia’s Execution →

Mumia Faces New Execution Threat

by Jeff MacklerAfter almost 28 years on Pennsylvania’s death row and innumerable battles in the U.S. criminal injustice system, innocent political prisoner, journalist and world renowned “Voice of the Voiceless” Mumia Abu-Jamal lost his final appeal on April 6, 2009. Ignoring it’s own historic decision in the 1986 case of Batson v. Kentucky that the … Continue reading Mumia Faces New Execution Threat →

Statement on Haiti

Tony Savino, our comrade who is in Cuba now with a photo exhibit on vodou in Haiti, issued the statement below to the Cuban National Press regarding the situation in Haiti.(For description of and photos from his exhibit in the Cuban press, see:http://www.cubadebate.cu/fotorreportajes/2010/01/09/presentan-en-santiago-de-cuba-exposici on-fotografica-dedicada-a-culto-haitiano/Tony's statement to the Cuban National Press re Haiti:My heart goes out … Continue reading Statement on Haiti →

Solidarity from Saks to Sheikh Jarrah

by Andrew Pollack Two weeks before Christmas, New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue played Scrooge by firing 115 workers in its cosmetics department in retaliation for their having joined a union. (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rwdsu-local-1102-files-federal-charges-against-saks-80726962.html) Saks then announced it would convert the department to a “vendor-staffed model,” i.e. an outside contractor would hire new workers and employ them at … Continue reading Solidarity from Saks to Sheikh Jarrah →