Archive for 2009
The Troy Area Labor Council AFL-CIO calls upon the AFL-CIO to organize a national march on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Health Care Justice, to stop the wars and to use the resources freed up to end the jobs and health care crisis here at home.
Tags: National March
Addressing the failure of government to adopt priorities that provide and maintain the infrastructure of employment, education, health care, housing, and parks, and which taxes everybody but the corporations & the rich.
Tags: San Francisco, Taxation, teachers
We think it is crucial to mount a campaign directed at all the diverse issues that are economically crippling working people. In this way we can create a broad, powerful movement. In unity there is strength.
Tags: g20, HR676, labor unions, WERC
The role of the trade union movement is not to become a partner of the bosses, or to help make their corporations “more competitive” in the global economy.
BY ALAN BENJAMIN
[Note: The following talk was presented by Alan Benjamin to the May 9 Teach-In in San Francisco to "Bail Out Working People -- NOT the Banks!" Benjamin is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Labor Council and is a co-chair of the Council's Economic Crisis Committee. This talk was [...]
But while we are waging many separate battles, our economic misery stems from a single source: The very rich, who own the banks and the corporations, exert enormous power in Washington, far beyond what their small numbers warrant.
Tags: WERC
Over 50 Greater San Francisco Labor, Community, and Activist Organizations Have Endorsed!
Complete List as of May 3, 2009
AFT Local 2121
ANSWER Coalition
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists;
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
Black&Brown Equitable Drug Policies Collective
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Chinese Progressive Association
Code Pink
Council of Community Housing Organizations
Day Labor Program
Dolores Street Community [...]
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04-29-09ltr2sflcaffreteachin2
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
I want to urge you and your members to participate in a teach-in and
mobilizing meeting scheduled for May 9, 2009 at the Plumbers’ Hall (1621
Market Street, between Franklin and Gough) from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. This event
is being co-sponsored by Bay Area Labor Councils. (See attached leaflet).
This event is of special importance [...]
Click here to download the 11 x 17 poster for the May 9 Teach In and Mass Action Organizing Meeting.11-17-may9
Tags: WERC
Download the Flier for the May 9 Teach In and Mass Action Organizing Meeting In San Francisco
Tags: WERC
A large-scale ‘Bail-out working people – Not the Banks’ teach-in’ and mass mobilization planning meeting’ scheduled for San Francisco May 9 is a hopeful harbinger of things to come.. This teach-in is heavily supported by organized labour and may well serve as a model for teach-ins in other areas. Such teach-ins can help to usher in a new era of greatly intensified grass-roots struggle against the power of finance capital in the U.S. and other countries with their anti-labour and anti-people policies.
Railroad Workers United
Unity – Solidarity – Democracy: The Rank & File in Action!
Railroadworkersunited.org info@railroadworkersunited.org (206) 984-3051
PO Box 1053, Salem, IL 62881
Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
P.O. Box 40009
San Francisco, CA 94140
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
At our Executive Committee Conference Call on April 7th, 2009, Railroad Workers United (RWU) voted to endorse [...]
By Jeffrey Sachs, Huffington Post
Posted on April 8, 2009, Printed on April 8, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/135532/
Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks. The same basic arithmetic was later described by Joseph Stiglitz in the New [...]
Tags: Geithner
Published on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Financial Times
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small . Nothing should ever become too big to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks – and hence the most fragile – become the biggest.
2. [...]