Submitted by x359437 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 3:55pm
By Greg Rodriguez,
grodrigueziww@yahoo.com
Rio Grande Valley, South Texas --It is known that nearly one-hundred of the immigrants being detained at the Department of Homeland Security(DHS)/Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s(ICE) Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) have been on a hunger strike since April 22, 2009. PIDC is a prison used to detain immigrants arrested by the United States government. It is located in an extremely isolated area of the remote South Texas town called Los Fresnos.
The detainees have resorted to this form of non-violent direct action after months of demanding adequate medical attention and an end to abuses by guards; to no avail.
Submitted by x359437 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:25am
Headlines:
- General Strike in the French Antilles
- For Labor Solidarity with the NYU Student Occupiers
- Australians Rally in Support of 7-Eleven Workers in Geelong
Features:
- Colibri Workers Fight for Pay and Dignity
- Western Australian Miners Struggle
- Russian Union Defies Threats at Ford Plant
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Submitted by IWW.org Editor on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 1:02pm
From the March 28, 2009; New York Times story.
In 2007, Mr. Green completed a project nearly 50 years in the making, The Big Red Songbook, which he helped to edit. It included the lyrics to more than 250 songs in the various editions of the Little Red Songbooks published from 1909 to 1973 by the Industrial Workers of the World, best known as the Wobblies. They were gathered by John Neuhaus, an I.W.W. machinist, who left his collection to Mr. Green when he died in 1958.
Thanks to LaborStart for the heads-up.
Submitted by x348328 on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 4:10pm
Headlines:
- Chicago factory occupation wins demands
- N. Carolina IWW truckers picket Weyerhauser
- Good Jobs For All stands up for temps in Toronto
Features:
- Can we rebuild the labor movement with the Employee Free Choice Act?
- Let's not get organized by Barack Obama
- Review: Staughton Lynd tackles Wobblies and Zapatistas
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Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 2:52pm
Posted in Solidarity:
On the morning of Wed. (17 December 2008), the offices of the G.S.E.E. (at
the intersection of Patision St. and Alexandras St.) were occupied by insurgent
workers and the building was declared a liberated workers' zone. Their
declaration speaks of their wish "[t]o disperse the media-touted myth that the
workers were and are absent from the clashes, and that the rage of these days
was an affair of some 500 "mask-bearers," "hooligans" or some other such fairy
tale, while on the T.V. screens the workers were presented as victims of the
clash, while the capitalist crisis in Greece and worldwide continues to lead to
countless layoffs that the media and their managers portray as a "natural
phenomenon"."
Communique #1 (17 December 2008):
We will either determine our history ourselves or let it be determined
without us.
We, manual workers, employees, jobless, temporary workers, local or
migrants, are not passive T.V. viewers. Since the murder of Alexandros
Grigoropoulos on Saturday night, we participate in the demonstrations, the
clashes with the police, the occupations of the centre or the neighborhoods.
Time and time again we had to leave our jobs and our daily obligations to take
the streets with the students, the university students and the other
proletarians in the struggle.
WE DECIDED TO OCCUPY THE BUILDING OF G.S.E.E.
-- To turn it into a space of free expression and a meeting point of
workers.
-- To disperse the media-touted myth that the workers were and are absent
from the clashes, and that the rage of these days was an affair of some 500
"mask-bearers," "hooligans" or some other fairy tale, while on the T.V. screens
the workers were presented as victims of the clash, while the capitalist crisis
in Greece and worldwide continues to lead to countless layoffs that the media
and their managers deal as a "natural phenomenon".
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