Summary of Friday's rally
KayDubya,

A summary of Friday's downtown in support of striking workers as well as suggestions for future action..
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Union Hasn't Kept Up With Grocery Giants
posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Sometimes someone from the corporate media actually gets it right. This excellent column on the supermarket workers' strike and lockout from the January 22 Los Angeles Times, posted here under the fair-use doctrine, indicates that even some business writers realize that for U.S. organized labor to remain relevant in today's political climate, unions have to become more militant and more conscious of global economic realities.
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Vons Strike Continues - Pacific Coast Highway
~Bradley,

On January 16, employees on strike from Vons and Ralphs were picketing in front of the Vons on Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades.Be sure to check out all the photos from this story! They are posted on Indybay.org
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Grocery Strike Rally Called for Fri., Jan, 23
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

UPDATE: 1-25-2004 :  http://www.sdimc.org/en/2004/01/102730.shtml

The San Diego-Imperial Counties Central Labor Council has called a mass rally for Friday, January 23, 3 to 5:30 p.m., at the Community Concourse, 202 "C" Street downtown, in support of striking and locked-out grocery workers. The rally will be followed by a march to the downtown Ralph's market at 101 "G" Street. Other upcoming actions include an organizing meeting for a Grocery Workers' Support Group Wednesday, January 21, 6 p.m. (dinner), 7 p.m. (meeting), at Activist's headquarters, 4246 Wightman Street in City Heights; a guest picket Sunday, January 25, noon to 2 p.m., at the Mission Hills Vons at 450 West University Avenue; and a fundraiser for the striking and locked-out workers Friday, January 30, 6 p.m. at the Machinists' Hall, 5150 Kearny Mesa Road.
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Kronstadt:Trotsky was right!!
A.Kramer,

New material from Soviet Archives
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Film on Supermarket Strike Shows Tonight 1/20
Labor Link TV,

A New Labor Link TV video program on the Grocery Worker Strike "SafewayStrike," in San Diego, by UCSD student Brian Remer, with videographer, union and strikers speaking. Also, footage of Hotel Del actions by HERE 30. Tuesday, January 20th at 7 PM, Joyce Beers Center, 1220 Cleveland Avenue, SD, 1 Block north of University Ave. on Vermont St. in the Uptown Shopping Center in Hillcrest, across from Trader Joe's.
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Video Night for UFCW Workers 1/20
sdiww,

A New Labor Link TV video program on the Grocery Worker Strike, "Safeway Strike," in San Diego by UCSD student Brian Remer with videographer, union and strikers speaking Also, footage of Hotel Del actions by HERE 30.

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225 UGSOA MEMBERS ARE VOTING TO STOP DUES PAY
UGSOA LOCAL 52 MEMBERS,

225 LOCAL 52 UGSOA MEMBERS WILL SOON VOTE TO STOP THE PAYMENT OF DUES TO UGSOA PRESIDENT JIM (THE RAT ) VISSAR


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Shame on R A, Say Carpenters
posted by Charles,

The Carpenters Union has had high visibility at 5th & Broadway in downtown San Diego in their dispute with a business named Enterprise.
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Grocery strikes in socal
LB,

the article of pww about grocery strikes in socal
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Protest Hits Schwarzenegger?s Proposed Cuts
STEVE ARGUE,

?The State of the State is not just dollars, it is also the health of the children and elderly.? Protest organizer Marty Omoto.
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Using Hate, Hypocrisy and Insults to attack D
Moore's Shadow,

The same Individuals who awarded Dean one of the highest grades on CATO's Fiscal Report Card on the Governors were also behind this TV ad: "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs."
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Antiquated social structure
James Allen Bressem,

An overview of the monitary crisis facing the modern world
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Misleaders? Strategy Undermines Grocery Strik
Charles Walker ,

"The strategy of relying on token informational pickets in in northern California, rather than extending the strike, is part of a loosing strategy by the UFCW bureaucrats that is defeating the strike. With a defeat in southern California it will be easy to extract concessions here. Victory will only come through real solidarity, with a militant rank and file class struggle leadership in the union that challenges the career bureaucrats for the continued life of the union!" --Steve Argue
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Capitalism is Legalized Robbery
Gary Sudborough,

An analysis of capitalism illustrating that not only are there periodic examples of large, conspicuous thefts by capitalists, but also there exists an everyday, subtle, disguised theft of value created by the working class.
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Mad Cow Disease/Mad Capitalism Disease
Labor's Militant Voice,

Most scientists believe mad cow disease comes from the feeding of ground up bodies of dead and diseased cattle to other cattle, that we end up eating.
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LaborTech/Access 2004
Steve Zeltzer,

Annual conference for labor activists to explore and exchange practices and ideas about the uses of technology for communication, education and agitation in the working class.
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Join the Taco Bell boycott in Irvine Mar 5
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers,

The Taco Bell boycott returns to SoCal for 3rd showdown at Taco Bell HQ in Irvine, CA
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Grocery strike: Fight To Win!
John Reimann,

As the grocery strike goest into its second month, it's time that the union breaks with the conservative strategy of the AFL-CIO and go back to what worked in the 30s.
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Wait: I'm Confused
Richard Mellor,

The Labor leadership'shandling of the grocery workers strike and continued reliance on "friendly" employers and big business politicans leave many workers wondering what's next
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Support Supermarket Strikers Dec. 20!
Mark Gabrish Conlan,

An important rally to support striking and locked-out supermarket workers in San Diego and throughout Southern California will be held Saturday, December 20, 1 p.m. at the Albertson's on 150 B Street in Coronado. Your participation is urgently needed to boost the morale of the workers, who went into this strike not expecting it to last 12 weeks or to tax the union movement's resources as seriously as it has.

Update:: 12/22/2003 ::
Community Groups Strike Commentary | Union Member Strike Commentary
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Mike Davis Exposes San Diego's History
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Authors Mike Davis and Kelly Mayhew, collaborators on the recent book "Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See," spoke December 14 at the Joyce Beers Center in Hillcrest. Davis talked about San Diego as an historically racist, anti-labor city whose politicians are even more totally dominated by its capitalist elite than usual in a U.S. cities because the progressive forces have been so impotent. He offered some surprising suggestions on how that might be changed.
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LA County supports suit over lost state tax
David Seaton,

Today's demonstration in San Bernardino is being organized by the league of cities' Inland Empire Division. Participating cities have been asked to estimate how many layoffs they would need and send the corresponding number of shirts. "It's a way of visualizing what Sacramento is stealing from our communities now"
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Southwest showdown: Republican vs Republican
Robbie Sherwood,

Grant Woods says that "mainstream" Arizonans support increased spending for key issues like education, health care and Child Protective Services -- that's why he's fight the Washington, D.C.-based "Club for Growth" who will spend $1 million in Arizona to oust moderate Republicans in the 2004 elections.
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CONCRETE SLAVE SHIP IN SEA OF CONFUSION
JOHNNY TOO BAD,

FREEDOM FOR OUR JUNK FLEET (boats)
HERITAGE NAVIGATION/REVOLUTION FOREVER.
TROUBLE UNDER A PERFECT SUN. JUNQUES ARE ILLEGAL IN SAN DIEGO BAY AND HAVE BEEN SINCE 1910. IT WAS FEARED THAT THEY WERE MORE PROFICIENT AT FISHING THAN THE ESTABLSHED COMPANIES. RICH WHITE TRASH FROM AZ. GOT TO GO.
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FBI Bulletin no. 89: Spying On Protestors
FBI Liars,

The FBI intelligence bulletin, disseminated on a weekly basis, provides law enforcement with current, relevant terrorism information developed from counterterrorism investigations and analysis. The intelligence bulletin does not contain threat warning information.
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FBI Publicly Denies Spying on Protesters
CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer,

Senior FBI officials took the unusual step Tuesday of publicly declaring that agents are not using the war against terrorism as a cover to collect information on people who demonstrate against the government. (Warning: Homeland BU**SH** meter at critical.)
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Grocery Strike - Fight to Win
John Reimann,

For the first time, a major contract would be without affordable health benefits if the grocery chains get their way. All of labor has to pitch in in a serious way this time and fight to win.
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Poverty and Unemployment in America
John Peterson,

They cooked the books!!
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Civilized People Don't Need to be Governed
judith mpls,

John Adams said that the more civilzied the people, the less need for government. Bush won't say this in one of his speeches though, since he wants more government. Parasites always want more government, which is free money for them. The parasites (teachers, lawyers, media folks, psychologists - all the ones working for the State - corporations, etc.) - all these elite creeps want to have more government - more free money. The union people want it too and the welfare people and the social security. It's a human condition to want something for nothing.
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