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New Orleans Indymedia provides coverage from the UNO Student Walkouts and Occupation on September 1, 2010 in protest of the enormous budget cuts to programs, faculty, staff and financial aid available to students by the state of Louisiana. 2 people were arrested, reportedly six people were involved in the occupation and approximated 150 to 200 people participated in the walkouts.
During the Vietnam War, the Mexican-American (Chicano) community, realizing that so many youth from that community were being used as canon fodder and were dying at a rate of 3 to 1 Anglo deaths, rose up en masse on August 29, 1970. Now, 40 years later, the still active Chicano Moratorium Committee, along with the Brown Berets, are keeping that moment alive. The Anniversary March and Rally took place on August 28, 2010 with a march down Whittier Blvd. in East L.A., culminating in a rally at the renamed Salazar Park in memory of the great reporter who has become the roll model for so many.
Today the march commemorates what happened 40 years ago, when the Los Angeles County sheriffs attacked an anti-war protest in the park…. opened fire on the protest with 12 gauge shotguns… killing three activists including a young Brown Beret. Later that day Sheriffs shot and killed Ruben Salazar a Los Angeles Times reporter, as he sat in the Silver Dollar café. The sheriffs shot Salazar with a tear gas gun canister, hitting him in the head.
At this years march people placed heaps of flowers on the sidewalk on Whittier Blvd where the Silver Dollar used to be. Marchers all stopped along the march to pay respects to the reporter assassinated by the Los Angeles County sheriffs department. Report from the newswire: Pics of Chicano Moratorium anti war protest and march by hellokitty siempre | | Past Coverage: 2009 | 2006
Related: Ramsey Muniz: Guilty of Being Latino and Activist in America
"I wanted to join the Jimmy Union because I made better wages when I was 16," said one worker at the picket line outside the Block E Jimmy John's Thursday evening. "I worked at a turkey farm in the middle of nowhere, Minnesota. And I made better wages then."Wearing shirts that read "Wages So Low You'll Freak"--a play on the profitable fast food chain's slogan--a couple dozen members of the newly formed Jimmy John's Workers Union organized through the Twin Cities Industrial Workers of the World walked the line with supporters in downtown Minneapolis, hours after simultaneously coming out at nine Minneapolis area stores owned by Mike and Rob Mulligan of Miklin Enterprises.
Before the picket began, members of the new union went in the store to seek a meeting with management. A worker knocked on the boss' door: "Hello, Jimmy John's Workers Union." But there was no answer, and outside a fold-up "neogtiating table" sat empty until the picketers went home for the night.
Read more with photos | More Coverage: First in Nation, Jimmy John's Sandwich Workers Join Union | Jimmy Johns Labor Dispute Bursts onto National Stage with Coast-to-Coast Actions Planned for Labor Day
On August 29, One DC pulled entirely out of the Parcel 42 tent city, literally pulling up their tents and moving on. The homeless who actually sleep there, however, are staying, despite the withdrawal of support by One DC from this now 7 week long land occupation. Read More & Audio | Video-featuring interview with Eric Sheptock
latest features from local imc's
Boston
Sep 08 2010
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Sep 07 2010
Building off long-standing successes like the 16-year-old Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, new anarchist bookfairs have appeared in cities worldwide in recent years. And this coming weekend, the Twin Cities hosts one of its very own at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center.
On Saturday, September 11, featured speakers at the fair will include Cindy Milstein, author of the new AK Press title Anarchism and its Aspirations, and Diana Block, prison abolitionist, feminist and author of the memoir Arm the Spirit—A Woman's Journey Underground and Back. Workshops will be led by groups including the Experimental College, Twin Cities Avengers and Twin Cities Indymedia, and participants are coming from as far away as the Beehive Design Collective in Maine, Oakland-based PM Press and Edmonton's ThoughtCrime Ink; regional groups like the Cream City Collectives and Wisconsin Books to Prisoners; and a slew of local organizations and individual mediamakers.
In the interview below, two Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair organizers talk about the purpose of the fair, what anarchists and non-anarchists will find, and the state of anarchism in the Twin Cities.
Buffalo
Sep 07 2010
Yesterday, on 'Labor Day' I met with new Buffalo resident & UB student, Crescenzo Scipione, a former Students for a Democratic Society activist in Rochester. Crescenzo alerted some of Buffalo's activists to the new labor dispute between the new Jimmy Johns Workers Union (JJWU: ), organized by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and Jimmy Johns a new national greasy sub & sandwich franchise. The IWW has organized the JJWU in response to the company's owners disdain to their workers grievances. The national owners have refused to sit down with the fast food workers union campaign.
The demands of the workers are for fairness and fair compensation. The Jimmy Johns Workers Union demand: higher wages above the minimum; consistent schedules and minimum length shifts; sick days; direct compensation for work related injuries; an end to sexual harassment at work; and, basic fairness at work. These conditions to some degree are enjoyed by workers in union shops around the country.
At the moment Jimmy Johns' owners, Rob and Mike Mulligan of Miklin Inc., have refused to talk to the JJWU and their campaign. According to the JJWU website, Rob and Mike make an annual profit of $2.3 million individually and their planned franchise expansion will cost $1.2 million alone. Including the owners personal profit & the cost of capital expansion the Jimmy Johns franchise makes $264,270.00, thereby making their non-union, low-wage, sub franchise very profitable. Their small sub-sweat-shop franchise has opened up a beachhead in Buffalo (one of three shops in New York State).
Rogue Valley
Sep 07 2010
LET'S ALL START PAYING ATTENTION. IT WILL PAY OFF IN THE END.
One Light Bulb at a Time....A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.
Good idea .. . one light bulb at a time . .
Check this out . I can verify this because I was in Lowes the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China . The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. Start looking.
DC
Sep 06 2010
Urbana-Champaign
Sep 06 2010
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Sep 06 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
Sep 06 2010
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Ten Years Later: Still No to the WTO! |
In late November and early December, a series of events will be held across the US commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the historic protests against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, and opposing the upcoming round of WTO meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. These talks are scheduled to take place November 30th through December 2nd — ten years to the day after the Seattle gathering. At these talks, government officials and corporate lobbyists will be promoting the expansion of business-as-usual trade policies as a solution to, rather than a cause of, the global economic and environmental crises. The commemoration also coincides with an international day of action on Nov 30 in advance of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen Dec. 7–28. From the Newswire: Northwest still says No to the WTO | D5 in Portland | Southern Oregonians are Heading to Portland | Seattle WTO Anniversary Events | MN Week of Action! | N30 — International Day of Action for Climate Justice See Also: seattleplus10.org | What I Learned At The WTO Protests | N30: It Still Matters | New Poster Art: "Spirit Of '99" | From climate denialism to activist alliances in memory of Seattle
N30 Action Reports: Reports pouring in from n30 day of climate justice action! Compilation here! | Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis on November 30 | NRDC Protested For Greenwashing and Support of Carbon Trading and Coal! | "Melted glaciers" dumped at DC offices of lobbyists bound for Copenhagen
Commemorations: Ten Years Since Seattle, Ten Years of Indymedia--Another World is Still Possible | UC-IMC Celebrates 10 Years of Indymedia Since Founding at “Battle in Seattle” | The Hint of a New World at RTS
more features from local imcs...
- Santa Cruz: Interview with Joseph Buddenberg of the AETA 4 09/06/2010
- Portland: An Elephant's Eye 09/06/2010
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- Portland: ACTION! Tree sit in downtown Eugene - right now to protest cutting old growth 09/05/2010
- Houston: Trying Times At Sedition 09/05/2010
- Arizona: Water is Life 09/04/2010
- Miami: PRESS FOR TRUTH covers the G20 Mass Court Appearances 09/04/2010
- NYC: Mexican Community Theater: A Different View of Immigration 09/04/2010
- Boston: Jimmy Johns Labor Dispute Bursts onto National Stage with Coast-to-Coast Actions Planned for Labor Day 09/04/2010
- DC: Gallery Place businessmen try to drive off youth with "Mosquito" 09/04/2010
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