Locked Out
Suzy,

Grocery store employees locked out of their jobs at the local Abertsons and Vons in San Marcos, Ca 10/14/03
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UFCW Strike Looms
FRSD,

Strike looms from United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, targeting Vons, Albertsons, and Ralphs.

Over 99.1% of UFCW Local 135 members vote to reject the propsal provided by the three largest grocers in Southern California, which has nearly guaranteed a strike that will begin on October 11th, 2003.

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Living on the Edge of Disaster: Being a Poor
Jay Shaft,

To be a borderline poverty level working mother is becoming a reality for more and more single, hard working mothers. The edge of financial disaster is becoming familiar territory for millions of women and the families they struggle to support. A desperate scramble for survival is the way a growing sector of the America that is the real backbone of our workforce has to deal with.


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Shop for groceries now! Don't cross the line!
nologo,

Stock up on groceries now...California Grocery clerks will most likely stike by the end of this week.


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Protest a boss who doesnt pay his workers
anarcho-syndicalist,

Imagine working in terrible conditions only to end up getting layed off with no reason or severance pay. People will meet in front of the Ramada Inn San Diego South, 91 Bonita Road, Chula Vista, CA, 91910 at noon. We will show the boss of a maquiladora that he can not practice unfair and illegal acts against workers and get away with it.
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Fully Informed Jury Association
,

Grand and Trial Jury RIGHTS
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Nader shines light on Texas GOPs dark agenda
Sam Hananel,

Nader called the Texas Republican Party's platform the most radically conservative he has ever seen, calling for: withdrawing from the UN, retaking the Panama Canal, repealing the minimum wage, and abolishing the Department of Education and the IRS.
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Wal-Mart: Bloom or Doom?
Jeff Hwang and Rick Aristotle Munarriz,

According to Business Week, "for every Wal-Mart supercenter that opens in the next five years, two other supermarkets will close." And this is done without creating new jobs. Unfair advantages? Unfair playing field? That's just buggy whip talk.
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SEIU DISCRIMINATES AGAINST ITS OWN EMPLOYEES
THE EMPLOYEES OF SEIU ,

WE FOUGHT BACK AGAINST SEIU AND WON... OTHER SEIU EMPLOYEES HAVE FILED THEIR LAWSUITS WITH ATTORNEY JOHN W. BILLHORN 773- 404-1710.
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Job Losses At Great Depression Level
MISLEADER,

Instead of creating 510,000 jobs in 2003, as President Bush predicted, the Republican-led economy has suffered a net loss of 473,000 jobs so far this year.1/2

The Timken Company, an Ohio-based steel and bearings manufacturer where the President launched his Jobs and Growth package in April, embarrassed the Administration two weeks ago with an announcement it will cut 900 jobs.3

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that mass layoffs were the cause of 134,000 jobs lost in August.4 August marked the seven consecutive month of job losses, a cold dose of reality in the face of the President's wishful rhetoric.5

The President sold his tax package last spring as a mechanism to create jobs, saying, "[T]he best way to create demand for goods and services is to let people have more of their own money . . . that's why tax relief is important in the year 2003 . . .

[T]hat's what the whole purpose of the package is, to create the conditions for job growth."6

His promises haven't borne out, but the President has tried to ignore the reality, claiming most recently two weeks ago in Michigan, "I'm sure the numbers are beginning to look better."7 At the same time, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "the tax-cut package that we've passed now three times does offer very bright prospects for the future."8

So far, however, economic growth has not translated into jobs. In the past 22 months just over one million Americans have lost their job. Added to the 1.78 million lost jobs during the seven-month recession, the period represents the largest sustained loss of jobs since the Great Depression.9

Sources:
1. "The President's Jobs and Growth Plan: Creating New Jobs", White House Fact Sheet.
2. "Bush Wants to Create More Jobs, but How?", New York Times, 9/28/03.
3. "Timken Lowers Sights, Plans to Cut 900 Jobs," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/19/03, p. B11.
4. "134,000 Lost Jobs in August 'Mass Layoffs'", Washington Post, 9/26/03
5. "August Jobs Miss Administration's Target," Economic Policy Institute, 9/5/03.
6. Presidential Speech, 4/24/03.
7. Presidential Speech, 9/15/03.
8. Meet the Press, 9/14/03.
9. "Defying Forecast, Job Losses Mount for a 22nd Month," New York Times, 9/06/03.

 http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09292003.html
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Palestine-the orgins of Hamas and its role to
Yossi Schwartz,

Palestine
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Support Tijuana maquiladora workers protest
Industria Fronteriza workers,

OCTOBER 4: TWO PROTESTS at TIJUANA & SAN DIEGO in SUPPORT of INDUSTRIA FRONTERIZA MAQUILADORA WORKERS. Industria Fronteriza?s workers are fighting to avoid that the U.S. owners, the Sagal-Modelvsky family, laugh in the face of Mexican labor laws by hiding behind the protection of the international border without paying the salary they still own to the workers. Workers in Tijuana and solidarity groups in San Diego will march on October 4 to demand justice.

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Labour Party Conference-Blairism on the rocks
PM,

Blair
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Darrell Issa: A Tactical Piggy Bank for the L
mario bolo,

summary of recent recall news, background on Gray Davis and the two other leading corporate candidates, argues for recall
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Panama-General Strike Defend Social Security
Jorge Martin,

Panama
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Fields of Hunger: The Lives of the Fresno Far
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Escondido Teachers Hold Informational Protest
mockiavelli,

Tonight, September 24th, approximately 70 Escondido Union High School teachers held an informational protest before the start of the annual Open House at Escondido High School.
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America's rich get richer thanks to tax-cutti
Andrew Gumbel,

Collectively, the 400 richest Americans are worth nearly one TRILLION dollars and it's mostly the top one percent who are pocketing Bush's tax cuts.
Meanwhile, WalMart managers are teaching employees how to obtain food stamps.
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TAXES FOR REVENUE ARE OBSOLETE
Beardsley Ruml,

by Beardsley Ruml,
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Mr. Ruml read this paper before the American Bar Association during the last year of the war [World War II]. It attracted then less attention than it deserved and is even more timely now, with the tax structure undergoing change for peacetime. His thesis is that given (1) control of a central banking system and (2) an inconvertible currency, a sovereign national government is finally free of money worries and need no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue. All taxation, therefore, should be regarded from the point of view of social and economic consequences. The paragraph that embodies this idea will be found italicized in the text. Mr. Ruml does not say precisely how in that case the government would pay its own bills. One may assume that it would either shave its expenses out of the proceeds of taxes levied for social and economic ends or print the money it needs. The point may be academic. The latter end of his paper is devoted to an argument against taxing corporation profits.
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Students Stand Up to Summer Work Business
Students Against Vector Exploitation,

National group of students rally against unethical business practices of summer work company.
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MASS ARRESTS OF STRIKING YALE WORKERS
worker,

An injury to one is an injury to all! Striking Workers at Yale University march and rally through the streets of New Haven, Conn. Workers, Union members, and supporters join them for mass civil disobedience. Police make 151 arrests... including AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney! Support the Workers and their just demands!
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Tribuna de los Trabajadores N? 218 (PT de Uru
Rafael - Tribuna de los Trabajadores,

Ya est? en Internet el N? 218 de "Tribuna de los Trabajadores", ?rgano del Partido de los Trabajadores de Uruguay.
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Communist Approach to World Problems
j.c.,

The modern student of history and economics will have little difficulty discovering for himself where Communist theory departs from the most elementary aspects of reality.
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Chile - First General Strike in 13 years
Pab;o Sanchez,

Chile
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BTL:Jesse Jackson Supports Yale University Strikers...
Produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus,

...Makes Connections Between Labor and Civil Rights Struggles Excerpt of speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at Yale University, Produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
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EGYPTIAN MOSSAD SPY EXPOSED
JERUSALEM POST,

SON IN LAW OF PRESIDENT NASSER OF EGYPT WORKED FOR MOSSAD BUT WAS A DOUBLE AGENT ACCORDING TO NEW BOOK
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Tax Cuts, The Enron?s, The Rich, The Poor, An
Gabrielle Reilly,

?They are giving tax cuts to the rich and robbing the poor? lets put this age old debate regarding tax cuts into the simplest terms. The financial security of everyday people is essential to raising our children, grandchildren, providing good education, reducing crime. The wisest financial strategies need to be put in place above bipartisan politics or the passion of so many of us vigilantly opposed to class systems. A review of human nature and the cycles of people?s lives need to be taken into consideration when waging this big debate on economical models such as Bush?s tax cuts. The answer may be a little surprising though...


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A Tortoise Swallows Tijuana's Secretary of Labor
V,

On September 1st, a group of textile workers from a Tijuana maquiladora will take part in a very important hearing. That day in the offices of the Tijuana Labor Board (Junta de Conciliaci?n y Arbitraje) the Sagal-Modelvsky family, a wealthy American business family, will try to laugh in the face of Mexican labor laws by hiding behind the protection of the border - you can help stop the consummation of this injustice.

Labor Day 9/1/03 12 pm Mexican Consulate Rally In Solidarity

SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRIAS FRONTERIZAS!
V,

SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRIAS FRONTERIZAS! SUPPORT UNION ORGANIZING!
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A TORTOISE SWALLOWS TIJUANA'S SECRETARY OF LA
Red Maquila Network,

rmn
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