The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is circulating a statement from the Portland-based Committee Against Political Repression on how you can help the political activists who have been subpoenaed to appear before a Seattle Grand Jury August 2. If your group has not yet signed the solidarity statement, reprinted below, please do so. We know […]
http://www.facebook.com/events/464496136901364/ Locked-out Palermo’s Pizza factory workers in Milwaukee are fighting a hard battle for union recognition and workplace safety, and battling against victimization of the largely-immigrant workforce by the bosses. Come support their picket! We’ll be out there from 10AM – 1 PM on August 4, so we’ll leave the Wilmar Center at 8:30 and […]
Support Palermo’s Workers
The Palermo’s Workers Union is demanding that Palermo recognize the Palermo’s Workers Union, re-instate the workers who were fired or replaced for participating in the strike, stop threatening immigrant workers, improve unsafe working conditions and negotiate a labor contract. Since the strike began, thousands of supporters have and continue to join the picket line, numerous […]
The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is circulating the following statement on FBI raids and grand jury repression in Portland, Oregon and in Olympia & Seattle in Washington. We urge all progressive organizations to sign on to this statement. To add your group’s name to the solidarity statement, please send an email to: nopoliticalrepression@gmail.com. Current […]
Yin Wong is a 64 year old disabled woman fighting eviction in San Francisco. She’s lived in her home since 2001 and never missed a mortgage payment. Her payments were automatically deducted from her bank account and sent to the lender. Originally, her mortgage was with National City Bank, then PNC (Pittsburgh National Corporation) bought […]
http://www.mbpratt.org/insidemoneymachine.html This is poetry for the “immense majority’—for those who work for a living, out of the house or at home, from the laundromat to the classroom, from the blue-collar construction sites to the white-collar desk jobs. These fresh, gritty and passionate poems are about the people who survive and resist inside “the money machine” […]

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