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Rally to Stop Colombia Trade Deal in Medford
"Free Trade", 05-05-2008 - 20:54
This WEDNESDAY: Rally to Stop the Colombia Trade Deal in Medford
Help take a stand for human rights and Oregon jobs by joining us at one of two rallies against the Colombia Free Trade Agreement:
Wednesday, May 7 * 12 noon Outside Senator Wyden's Medford Office Federal Courthouse * 310 W 6th St * Medford, OR
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May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports
Internationalist Group, 04-05-2008 - 20:51
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party.
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Cynthia McKinney Letter to ILWU
jackson county pacific green party, 30-04-2008 - 07:41
While many unions pass resolution after resolution while doing little to actually stop the bloodshed, for generations the ILWU has shown that we can resist the war-mongering corporate politicians, and their profiteering attempts to divide the labor movement and weaken our capacity to organize and resist their destructive actions.
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MAYDAY! March for Immigrant Rights and Fight Wal*Mart!
S O U T H E R N * O R E G O N * J O B S * W I T H * J U S T I C E, 29-04-2008 - 21:36
Join us on May Day at 4 pm at Alba Park for a march and rally in downtown Medford, Oregon to support our immigrants.
"May 1 march for immigrants rights"
http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/04/11838.shtml
And at 7 pm also on May Day! (is this orwellian or what?) we see the Wall*Mart fight come back to the City of Medford from Oregon's LUBA. Join us for a strong delegation that demands a traffic study and whatever it takes to keep this mega anti-worker employer the hell out of Southern Oregon. WALL*MART will NOT gain more roots here! ! ! !
"May Day! May Day! Wal-Mart is back!"
http://www.rogueimc.org/en/2008/04/11876.shtml
Wal-Mart is back! Public hearing this Thursday May 1st at Medford City Council 7 pm
What are you doing on May Day? Think of a way, even if you can't skip out from work to help us do the suggestions above, find your own way to do something positive! May Day! May Day! May Day! is a universal warning. Stand Up and join us now!
In solidarity,
Wes Brain, Chair
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice
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MGM MIRAGE STOP THE UNION - BUSTING
The United MGM MIRAGE Casino Security Guards, 29-04-2008 - 02:57
MGM MIRAGE NAMED AS LAS VEGAS UNION-BUSTER OF THE YEAR
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All Out on May Day!
Internationalist Group, 26-04-2008 - 06:24
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they’re about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it’s got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! Meanwhile, immigrants’ rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights “at home.” We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The “antiwar movement,” whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What’s needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy.
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Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present
El Libertario, Venezuela, 18-04-2008 - 08:52
* This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. We hope that this serves as a useful point of reference for those who are interested in the subject.
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Jackson County Commissioner Candidates Speak Out
Brain Labor Report on KSKQ, Ashland's lpfm radio station, 09-04-2008 - 12:56
Jackson County, Oregon
All three Democrat candidates for Jackson County Commissioner who face off in the May 20 primary are interviewed this week on the Brain Labor Report. Listen to the voices of Scott Keith, Jim Olney and John Morrison as each answers the same set of questions which cover topics such as privatization of public services, economic development and the value of independent media.
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Colombia Free Trade Agreement goes to Congress
Jason Houk, 07-04-2008 - 15:55
Citing national security needs, President Bush sends his Colombian Free Trade agreement to Congress on Monday. President Bush says Colombia has made enough progress to warrant a free trade agreement, but Democrats strongly oppose to the plan. Congress has 90 days to vote on it.
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Petition to End Sweatshops and Slavery
mega, 07-04-2008 - 14:31
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) - an organization of low-wage workers based in Immokalee, Florida - has launched a national petition campaign to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages & working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery & human rights abuses from Florida's fields.
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Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia!
Internationalist Group, 30-03-2008 - 18:51
On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now!
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FREE TRADE FORUM in Medford 3-29-08
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign & Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, 28-03-2008 - 09:06
Don't Miss Event: Southern Oregon Assembly on Free Trade and Job Loss
Join displaced workers from Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford and elsewhere to discuss the negative impacts that free trade agreements like NAFTA are having on southern Oregon communities -- and what we can do together to finally put an end to destructive trade policies once-and-for-all.
When: Saturday, March 29 2:00 pm
Where: Medford County Library, 205 South Central, Medford
Continue Below for recent "fair trade interviews" on the Brain Labor Report radio show
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URBAN WORK - March, 2008
from Ross Rieder, 18-03-2008 - 09:30
This newswire is "local news" for Southern Oregon members of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association. PNLHA Director Ross Rieder is a regular on cable TV in our region. The monthly program "Our View" from the Washington Federation of State Employees features a regular "labor history vignette" from Ross Rieder. Our View is shown once or twice a month via OPEU District 4 Productions whose regular programming can be seen Wednesdays at 6pm on cable channel 15 in both Jackson and Josephine counties.
This March 2008 edition of URBAN WORK highlights PNLHA's plans for the 2008 Labour History Conference to be held June 6-8 in Vancouver, British Columbia
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VOTE PSL in 2008: Put Human Needs Over Profit
votepsl, 11-03-2008 - 11:08
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. The campaign is rooted in the struggle for socialism. We believe a better world is possible and together we can make it happen.
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Stop Toxic Imports Rally - Report Back from Medford, Oregon
Organized by SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE, 07-03-2008 - 13:08
INDEPENDENT MEDIA GETS THE "INSIDE" SCOOP - rogueimc.org
Representatives from over a dozen unions and community organizations stood up tall and spoke loud & clear in telling U.S. Senator Gordon Smith from Oregon:
STOP TOXIC IMPORTS NOW!
and
SUPPORT the FOOD AND PRODUCT RESPONSIBILITY ACT (S.2081)
Photos and Video included in this report come from the 2/29/08 Rally in Medford, Oregon with special appreciation for citizen journalists Allen Hallmark (photos) and Steve Ryan (video). Mainstream cameras (local tv channels 5 & 10) never went inside, they missed the inside scoop. See it here:
3 min. U-Tube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8OcWaPdjiA
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ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan
Internationalist Group, 01-03-2008 - 16:11
In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!
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yuan vs world business: trade, outsourcing
world travel, trade, finance, politics, 24-02-2008 - 20:04
Watch out on exploding China and Asia century! Discover what is really inside Chinese and Asian stock market, multinationals, banking, yuan, insurance, management, and politics. Get great info and analysis from leading thinker George Zhibin Gu.
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VOTE PSL in 2008: Federal, state and local
votepsl, 23-02-2008 - 22:41
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. We are also running candidates in federal, state and local races in many areas.
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Puerto Rico: All Out to Defend the Teachers’ Struggle!
Internationalist Group, 17-02-2008 - 07:50
We are on the threshold of a major class battle in Puerto Rico. Every day new preparations are announced for the coming strike of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation (FMPR). With 42,000 members, a majority of them women, the FMPR represents almost all of Puerto Rico’s teachers and is by far the largest union on the island. The Shock Force of the Puerto Rican Police and National Guard are being readied to go after the strikers. The struggle of the Puerto Rican teachers affects everybody. The working class as a whole, students and parents, teachers and defenders of workers’ rights around the world must come out in defense of the FMPR! If there are mass arrests, the response must be massive blockades and spreading the struggle to the point of shutting the island down. In order to win this strike, it is necessary to prepare for a struggle not only of the teachers but within the whole workers movement against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy that sabotages the workers’ struggle. Above all, it is necessary to fight against illusions in and ties with bourgeois parties and politicians. It’s high time to begin building a revolutionary internationalist workers party.
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Libraries will be union, Members speak up!
M E M B E R * M A D E * L A B O R * M E D I A, 15-02-2008 - 14:21
"LSSI Must Recognize Union"
Brain Labor Report radio show today, 2/15/08
http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=228
Today's show was one of the most fun ever! We highlighted the LSSI privatization of the Jackson County Library System and the newest development in this Orwellian saga. Enter the implication of the Successorship Doctrine. This is the federal law which mandates that union busting can not be done. Today's show had guest interviews with Buck Eichler who is President of the SEIU represented Jackson County Employees Association and with Pauline Black who is employed by LSSI as a Clerk at the Ashland, Oregon library. Because of the Successorship Doctrine Pauline Black will have a voice at work with union representation, again. And that stands for workers at ALL 15 libraries of the Jackson County Library System which are now being run by private corporation LSSI.
LISTEN HERE- http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=228
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coming of age of Chinese multinationals trade
world trade, travel, finance, outsourcing, 14-02-2008 - 16:40
Is it China’s turn to produce giant multinational firms, investors, hightech players, and banks? What is really inside Chinese society, government, finance, culture, outsourcing, management? Get the most informative reports.
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Workers Get A Voice! BIG win for S. Oregon!!
S T O P * P R I V A T I Z A T I O N * N O W !, 12-02-2008 - 21:57
Oregon's Jackson County Library System employees get to have a voice at work. In a HUGE victory for working people Jackson County Library employees will be union. With SEIU Local #503 library workers have a voice at work, again. The right of association, that most important universal human right, has been declared the law in Southern Oregon. LSSI, the private corporation that stole our public library system has broken the law and now must make serious corrections.
Listen to the 2/15/08 edition of the Brain Labor Report radio show to learn more. This show has guest interviews with Buck Eichler who is the President of the SEIU represented Jackson County employees and with Pauline Black who is employed by LSSI as a Clerk at the Ashland, Oregon Library.
"LSSI Must Recognize Union"
Listen Here- http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=228
Read More, but know that this story FIRST saw the light of day on December 20, 2007 via the Rogue IMC and the Brain Labor Report, both progressive independent sources for news. Independent Media scoops the mainstream corporate version, yet again.
PRIVATIZATION OF OUR PUBLIC SERVICES MUST STOP.
IT MUST STOP NOW!
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STOP TOXIC IMPORTS Rally Feb. 27 in Medford
Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice, 11-02-2008 - 09:11
STOP TOXIC IMPORTS Rally
10:30 a.m., Feb. 27, Medford, Oregon
Location: Senator Gordon Smith's Medford Office, Security Plaza 1175 East Main
The issue of lead in toys has gotten quite a bit of coverage in the media. But the problem of Toxic Trade goes far beyond toxics in toys.
Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice is joining with the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, the United Steelworkers and with labor and consumer protection
advocates: Congress is on notice that our trade laws must champion safety
and environmental standards as well as workers' rights.
We urge Senator Gordon Smith to Stop Toxic Imports and Support the Food and Product Responsibility Act (S. 2081)
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Corruption in Finland - State Hiring Scandal
N Rockefeller, 07-02-2008 - 03:28
The Finnish Chancellor of Justice is currently investigating for
possible irregularities and discriminatory treatment after the Swedish
School of Social Science released documents relating to their decision
to reject an internationally renowned SPACEPOL expert's candidacy for a
limited track researcher position. According to SPACEPOL CEO Gunnar K.
A. Njalsson, the released documents expose a process of candidate
evaluation riddled with inconsistencies and lack of academic integrity.
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The price of Chinese corruption: what is next
world travel, politics, trade, finance forum, 03-02-2008 - 00:47
Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption is concerned? What is the next if this corruption goes deeper? Get the most powerful reports by insiders.
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