Truckers To Strike In NYC On May Day and Rally Off New Jersey Turnpike In Mass Action Against Fuel Prices

We have received a report – not verified – that truckers in New Jersey are taking a mass action in New York City with a rally off the New Jersey Turnpike. Rising fuel and energy costs are threatening the ability of port truckers to earn a decent living and support their families as well as negatively impacting communities across the country. NJ port truckers are taking action as part of a national effort of transportation workers including – longshoremen and women, taxi workers, port and long haul truck drivers, and railway workers – to build rank and file unity.  [Go here for more info.]

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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