Video Screening of  "Lockout 484" & "Solidarity Has No Borders, Lessons Of The Neptune Jade"
The Union Busting Epidemic & How To Fight It
 . . . .  details

Wednesday  March 1, 2006  4:00pm
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1805131.php by Sandra Butler Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 at 8:22 PM  

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 demonstration planned against the National Parks Service for illegal award of the Alcatraz Ferry contract to non-union low bidder.

RALLY AGAINST ROGUE GOVERNMENT  UNION BUSTING ON OUR BAY!IBU
banner Robert Irminger, Vice-Chair of the ILWU/IBU SF Region, and Marina V. Secchitano, Regional Director, IBU.

PLEASE JOIN US: Masters, Mates & Pilots and  the Inlandboatmen¹s Union  of the Pacific  Wednesday  March 1, 2006  4:00pm

March 11, 2006
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY . . . .  details

Tour Calendar for Luis Primo (UNT) West Coast Tour Written by U.S. Hands Off Venezuela   
Wednesday, 22 February 2006

This is an initial announcement with the following confirmed tour stops: San  Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Olympia, WA; Seattle, WA; Vancouver, BC;  Berkeley, CA; Tucson, AZ; San Jose, CA; San Francisco, CA...  full details

March 27, 2006 7:00 PM, March 28, 2006 7:00 PM
Venezuela From Below,
The Labor Video Project and Laborfest (www.laborfest.net) will be screening "Venezuela From Below," a film by Oliver Ressler and Dario Azzellini. In this film, the true actors in the social process are able to speak: workers from the oil company PDVSA, farmers from a newly founded cooperative in Aragua, loan recipients from the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas, indigenous community members from the Orinoco river valley, . . . full details

April 25, 2006
Equal Pay Day 2006 will be Tuesday, April 25

Wage Gap Remains The median earnings of women working full-time year-round was 77% of  men's median earnings last year, the same as the wage gap in 2002. But  this narrowing of the wage gap from 76% last year was achieved only  because men's earnings fell more than women's during that time. Women's  earnings were $31,223. . .details

July 5th - July 31st

LaborFest 2006  July 5th - July 31st Includes International Working Class Film&Video Festival Celebrating the 71st Anniversary of the SF General Strike

Dear Brothers And Sisters, LaborFest 2006 is now in the planning stage for our annual July month-long festival celebrating the 71st anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike....more

PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED EVENTS

Feb 12, 2006

Solidarity Sundays   Please join us in informational picketing on Sundays.     (Previously we have done Wednesdays, but Sundays would be more productive considering the volume of passengers flying on Sundays)  

Starting this Sunday Feb 12, 2006 and every Sunday there after. Location:  NWA Departures (ticket counter) SFO   Time:10a-12n   Please come in uniform or as a vending machine, CEO paycheck, or any other creative expression of corporate terrorism.

 "WORKING PEOPLE IN STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM"

Date: To be announced.

This classic documentary recaptures the 1968 struggle for economic justice among Memphis' sanitation workers, who earned so little they qualified for welfare. In the film, retired workers recall their fear as they challenged the white power structure when they went on strike for higher wages and union recognition. The....  more.

Friday, February 24, 2006 at 7:00 p.m 
LABOR ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER – 20TH ANNIVERSARY

The Labor Archives and Research Center will hold its 20th Anniversary Evening  Program -  . The featured speaker will be  Grace Palladino, author of, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of  Building Trades History (copies of the book will be available for purchase). ....more

Saturday, February 25, 2006, Starting 12pm
RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS -- AGAINST FEDERAL LEGISLATION CRIMINALIZING IMMIGRANTS
WHERE: FRUITVALE DISTRICT, OAKLAND -- ST.ELIZABETH'S SCHOOLYARD-- 1500 BLOCK OF 34TH AVE.

Where: Fruitvale District, Oakland -- St. Elizabeth's Schoolyard -- 1500 Block of 34th Ave.  

Why: On December 16th, the US House of Representatives passed HR 4437, one of the most anti-immigrant legislative proposals in recent memory. The proposed legislation would make it a FELONY to be in the U.S. without proper documents. The proposal now goes before the Senate.

Sponsored by the Northern California Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. 

February 4 through February 25
Central Labor Council of Alameda County Support Berkeley Honda’s Striking Workers!
Berkeley Honda Machinists, 1546 and Teamsters, 78 are now in their 8th month on the picket lines, defending pensions, health care and a voice at work. Support these events, organize one of your own, or sign up for a shift. ..detailed scheduled

Feb. 15, 16, 17 €  2-7
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, Room 145,  Laub Lobby

¡CLICK!  We grape pickers, Big Mama¹s breeze, my camera and I have created La Huelga¹s quintessential image of hope & solidarity, which will be replicated in films, textbooks and posters around the world to this day. 

This photo mural is larger than life,  5.5¹x 8¹, in the multimedia, bilingual installation now in Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, until May 1, 2006...more

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:13:57 GMT
This Saturday Protest 150 Days on Strike at Lithia Dodge  
Our Machinist Brothers and Sister at Lithia Dodge in Concord have been on strike for over 150 days. On Saturday, February 25th, we will rally to show our outrage and let management at Lithia know what the next 150 days will be like.more

February 8  7:30 p.m.
Documentary Film Premiere, Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) Brava Theater 2781 24th Street San Francisco
Benefit Screening for CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival
http://www.countercorp.org/countercorp-events.htm.

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) is the inspiring, and sometimes  unsettling, story of the Mexican teachers' movement and their  grassroots, non-violent struggle to defend public education from the  devastating impacts of economic globalization.....more

Saturday February 11, 2006 7:30 PM
Lessons From The UW Divestment  Campaign of Companies Providing Military Aid For Israel
New College Theater 777 Valencia St/19th St. San Francisco

$5.00 Donation Requested

Speakers: Nasser Abufarha, UW PHD candidate, T.A. member of (TAWP) and leader of the  University of Wisconsin Divest from Israel Campaign Mark Evenson, President Elect of The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP)AFT more

MARCH/CARAVAN FOR MIGRANTS (Partial Schedule Released)

February 2, 2006 GENTE UNIDA, BORDER ANGELS and dozens of other human rights organizations as well as thousands of individuals will support the MARCH FOR MIGRANTS from San Diego to Washington D.C.. . .more

Wednesday February 1, 2006 12:00 - 1:30 Thursday February 2, 2006 11:30 - 1:00 Friday February 3, 2006 12:00 - 1:00  One of our main leaders in the Women's Collective - the fabulous and powerful Inez Lazarte - needs your help to recover her unpaid wages.

Inez worked for years as a tailor at a couple of stores owned by the same man here in San Francisco. She has not been fully paid for her work at these stores....more

Jan. 30th (Monday) 5:30-9:30pm – Oakland  EVENT: Join the Central Labor Council of Alameda County in meeting the Candidates for Oakland Mayor & City Council at the ILWU Local 6 Hall, 99 Hegenberger Rd. For more info contact the Labor Council via email mail@alamedalabor.org or phone 510/632-4242.

Jan. 23th (Monday) 6:30-7:30pm - Pajaro  EVENT: Join Community Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (CASE), Pajaro neighbors, friends of the environment, the grocery workers union and other labor & community advocates for healthy communities in the new Pajaro Primero: Alliance for Good Jobs and Healthy Neighborhoods, to... STOP THE PAJARO WALMART SUPERSTORE!!!  Monthly coalition meeting is at Pajaro Valley Middle School, 250 Salinas Rd. Web to PajaroPrimero@mbclc.org for more info.  

Jan. 23th (Mondays) 7-10pm - Oakland  CLASS: LABST 016 Rights & Discrimination in the Workplace (code L1565) for 3 units in room G266 at Laney College near Lake Merritt BART. This class does not meet Jan. 17th due to campus closed for MLK Holiday. Register online at www.peralta.cc.ca.us or for more info call 510/464-3210.

Jan. 21st (Alt. Saturdays) 12:30-5pm - Oakland  CLASS: LABST 214A-D Rockin' Solidarity Labor Heritage Chorus (code L1170) for 1 unit on Alt. Saturdays 12:30pm to 5pm on the Stage at Laney College near Lake Merritt BART. Register online at www.peralta.cc.ca.us or for more info call 510/464-3210.  

Jan. 19 & 20th - Berkeley  EVENT: The Labor Center at UC Berkeley will be holding a Media Skills Workshop  (please note this training was postponed last in October).    Deadline to register is December 16! For more info email Alicia Criado at acriado@berkeley.edu or call 510/642-9316.  

Jan. 19th (Thursday) 8:30-10am – Oakland  EVENT: Leaders of all Bay Area US LAW affiliates and officials of other interested unions are invited to attend a report-back meeting to learn more about the decisions reached in Chicago on December 3-4, 2005 (US LAW National Steering Committee) in planning for 2006 for the Bay Area. Meeting will be held at SEIU LOCAL 1000  1433 Webster Street, #200    Oakland, CA (btw 14th and 15th Streets). Light breakfast provided. Please RSVP to Michael Eisenscher at m_eisnscher@uslaboragainstwar.org or call 510/436-6125. Web to www.uslaboragainstwar.org  for more information.

Special Rally!  Sponsored by SEIU 790 | City of Berkeley & other public employees | Sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America

Wed 7:30-9 AM | Th 4:30-6 PM | Sat 1-2:30 PM       

Where: Parker & Shattuck, Berkeley

What's New:  Saturday's event with the Liberation Brass Band was great.  After marching in front of the dealership for about 45 minutes while playing -- and they played wonderfully -- the  band led us up Shattuck Ave. into the downtown area.  On the way to the BART station, we passed out leaflets and ducked into the Shattuck Ave. businesses to ask them to display our poster -- which many of them did.  Then we stopped in front of the station, where the band played a few more numbers.

It was over too soon.  A very Berkeley event, and one that we'll try to repeat before long.

See you on the line,

Harry Brill harry.brill@sbcglobal.net Judy Shelton beactive@sbcglobal.net <mailto:beactive@sbcglobal.net>