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UCSC Shut Down: audio callins afternoon
Audio callin reports from FRSC reporters afternoon
Bolth Main/West entrance Shut Down!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 8:45pm PDT
Pictures From the 4/14 Strike At UCB
Thousands of UCB staff and students as well as many labor activists took part in an all day strike and picket in Berkeley. The rally reached its largest point around 4PM when Robert J. Birgeneau was sworn in as chancellor. Birgeneau eventually came outside and addressed the crowd. (more reports and details will be posted shortly)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 6:19pm PDT
News from the UC Berkeley strike
As of 3 PM the picket at Bancroft and Telegraph was still going strong with about two hundred participants....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 3:05pm PDT
UC Santa Cruz Strike updates
UC Santa Cruz Strike 500 and growing at Main Entrance
many people turning away or joining strike.
pics & Audio SCIMC...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:32pm PDT
Silicon Valley "Pigs" - Where's the Outrage?
In the last five years in Northern California's "Silicon Valley" we've lost 200,000 jobs, $2 trillion in wealth, temp workers getting short pay with unsafe working conditions, regular workers putting in 100 hours a week, schools and libraries closing while one single capitalist bureaucrat, Yahoo Chief, Terry Semel, pockets $231 million in one year. Where's the outrage?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 2:48pm PDT
STUDENT AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY ACTION WITH STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKERS
Flying Solidarity Pickets
12 NOON -Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
3:30 PM- Re-Converge Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
4 PM- International House, Bancroft/Piedmont, UC Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:30pm PDT
UC Workers Striking Tomorrow
List of all the pickets and contacts...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:16pm PDT
Rockin' the Boat: CA Workers Comp Threatened (audio/mpeg 4.4MB)
Injured workers rallied in San Francisco, April 4, as the state Division of Workers' Compensation, held
the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent disability payments for workplace injuries....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:10am PDT
MAY DAY 2005 Organizing
Come Help Local Organizing Efforts for MAY DAY 2005...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 5:15pm PDT
Thousands turn out in San Francisco to greet Arnold (video/quicktime 13.7MB)
Were the special interests inside or outside?
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 14MB....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 10:24am PDT
4/14: Workers at UC Campuses Need Your Support
Picketing begins 6am, Thursday, April 14,
continues until 11:30 pm...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 11:01pm PDT
May Day Benefit Screenings Of "THE TAKE"
There will be two special screenings of "The Take" in San Francisco and Oakland to benefit the Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 3:55pm PDT
Entartete Kunst Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 27.5MB)
Interview on March 1, 2005 with Malatesta and Raw Knowledge from Entartete Kunst; artist collective and collectively run record label with music from their most recent CD, States of Abuse....
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 1:49pm PDT
UC Workers Fight for Justice (video/quicktime 44.7MB)
UCSF workers protested on 3/24/05 and this video interviews why the workers are angry about their management and conditions. 15 min. 44.6 MB...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 1:08pm PDT
Joan Meyers Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 22.4MB)
Interview on March 15, 2005; Joan Meyers, PHD student in Sociology at UC Davis; comparing differences in organization between two large cooperatives that have changed since their formation 30 years ago....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 8:54pm PDT
St. Peter's Housing Committee Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 11.6MB)
Interview on April 5, 2005 with Maria and Lupe from Saint Peter's Housing Committee, a tenant advocacy group in San Francisco's Mission District serving Spanish-speaking tenants. Organizing, counselling and legal support. Recently switched from Staff/Director model to Collective....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 6:28pm PDT
4/17 Benecia Screening Of "Almost Brokent"
"Almost Broken" about the 13 year struggle of injured worker Larry...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 1:13am PDT
4/28 Workers Memorial Day Protest
This statewide rally will honor the workers who have been killed or injured on the job and will protest the destruction of workers comp and the lack of healthcare for all....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 12:45am PDT
Arnie Under Siege
Report from the April 5th protest at Arnold Schwarzenegger's fundraiser in San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:59pm PDT
5000+ PROTEST AT THE RITZ
RALLY AGAINST ARONLD'S CORPORATE CORRUPTION...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:54pm PDT