Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney On SEIU-CNA Dispute
On Developments in the SEIU-CNA Dispute April 15, 2008 For several weeks I have been working to bring the Service…
Posted in: Health, Organizing
Disintegration is Everywhere
The Politics of Distraction in an Age of Gotcha Capitalism By Ralph Nader In this year’s presidential campaign, the major…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Election, Environment
UPDATE: Through the Ocean Beach Grapevine – Filming in the Neighborhood Ends Today
Staff April 15, 2008 15 Comments on UPDATE: Through the Ocean Beach Grapevine – Filming in the Neighborhood Ends Today
Film Makers Finish Up Filming in Ocean Beach After Shots On the 4700 Block of Long Branch – Where Rental…
Posted in: Ocean Beach
The End of the World as You Know It
…and the Rise of the New Energy World Order By Michael T. Klare Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at…
Posted in: Environment, War and Peace
Something’s not right in the house of labor – allegations of SEIU “thug attack”
Staff April 15, 2008 2 Comments on Something’s not right in the house of labor – allegations of SEIU “thug attack”
Service employees union organizes “thug attack” at Detroit conference By Jerry White /15 April 2008 Representatives of the Service Employees…
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Fewer Large Corporations Audited by IRS
Published: April 14, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The tax audit rates of the largest companies are less than half what…
Posted in: Civil Rights
The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations
by Floyd Rudmin We hear that Tibetans suffer “demographic aggression” and “cultural genocide”. But we do not hear those terms…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Organizing, War and Peace, World News
Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war
by Jack Heyman While millions of people worldwide have marched against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and last week’s…
Posted in: California, Peace Movement
Tagged: protest, San Francisco
Oil company (BP) to ravage Canadian forests the size of Florida
Greenpeace calls it “the biggest environmental crime in history” On April 1, 2008, AlterNet reported on British Petroleum’s plan to…
Posted in: Environment
Olympic Torch Farce Mocks Democracy
Last week’s Olympic Torch visit to San Francisco made a mockery of human and civil rights. When the Olympic Torch…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Media, World News
Tagged: San Francisco
The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility leads successful effort to retain California’s nuclear safeguard laws
Staff April 14, 2008 0 Comments on The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility leads successful effort to retain California’s nuclear safeguard laws
On April 7, 2008, Rochelle Becker, the executive director of the Alliance testified before California’s Assembly Natural Resource Committee in…
Posted in: Environment
The Peace Movement Shows Its New Face and It’s Beautiful
Frank Gormlie April 10, 2008 12 Comments on The Peace Movement Shows Its New Face and It’s Beautiful
Recent antiwar “march madness” reflects a more decentralized, more youthful & more militant movement Wanting to provide a contemporaneous record…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Organizing, Peace Movement, War and Peace
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