Month: June 2012

Here’s what you can do: Go to http://www.offthepodium.org and http://www.justiceforriotintoworkers.ca to get more information about the USW lockout campaign. Click here and vote for Rio Tinto for the Greenwash Gold 2012 Award–signifying that the company is environmentally destructive and devastating while pretending to be a good corporate citizen by sponsoring the Olympic Games. Join the […]

http://www.facebook.com/events/293784027383602/ NOTE: Youth Empowered in the Struggle or YES!, is the youth organization within Voces de la Frontera, http://vdlf.org/. A YES! delegation will be on the Palermo Workers Union picketline at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 15, 2012. — YES!, we’re standing in solidarity with workers at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee. Why? Workers at Palermo’s have […]

https://twitter.com/#!/PalermosStrike

WHAT: Palermo’s Workers Strike Fund Benefit WHERE: El Local, 1801 S. 11th St. (11th and Maple St.), Milwaukee WHEN: Thursday June 14,  5-7 p.m. For more information, call: (414) 795-0919 Make Checks Payable to: “Palermo Workers Union Strike Fund” — From American Federation of Teachers, Local 212: “Palermo Pizza workers in Milwaukee have been on strike […]

Members of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) will join in a delegation at the Palermo Workers picket line Saturday, June 16, Join Them!: http://www.facebook.com/events/446379245387393/446610295364288/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity ###

Rally @ Flagstar’s Dearborn Heights (MI) Branch Saturday, June 16, 11 am – Noon 26545 Ford Rd. (Half mile east of Inkster Rd.) Call Flagstar Bank, 248-312-2000. Flagstar claims to be a “community” bank and a Michigan company, but it is actually owned by MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, a New York equity firm that Forbes Magazine […]

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