General Strike

Tacoma Wobblyfest 2008

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:39:27 -0400

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Tacoma Wobblyfest 2008: A Poor and Working People's Gathering

A Public Gathering of Education and Music

When the union's inspiration through the workers blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Solidarity Forever

May 24, 2008

9 AM to 5 PM at: Evergreen State College-Tacoma Campus: 1210 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA

6 PM to 9 PM at: Pitchpipe Infoshop, 621 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA

ALL PEOPLE ARE WELCOMED!

Workshops 9 AM to 12 Noon: Everegreen State College-Tacoma Campus 1. Immigrant Workers: Mary Smith 2. Working Class Environmentalism: Leah Coakley 3. Joe Hill and IWW Music: Patrick Edelbacher read more »

Day of angry protest stuns Egypt

pirate — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:18:12 -0400

By Michael Slackman April 6, 2008 International Herald Tribune

CAIRO The center of this normally bustling, overcrowded, traffic-clogged city was largely quiet Sunday, the roads nearly empty, many of the stores shuttered, as the riot police came out in force to prevent a general strike aimed at signaling widespread discontent with President Hosni Mubarak and his government.

Egypt has virtually no organized political opposition, except the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned and barred from politics. read more »

Iraqi Women Quietly Endure Horrors of War

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:57:47 -0500

By Cyril Mychalejko

March 8 marks the 99th celebration of International Women's Day, a day to commemorate the political, social, and economic struggles and achievements of women globally.

This year we should use the holiday to observe and reflect on the suffering of Iraqi women, who have become invisible "collateral damage" in our country's war in this now defenseless Middle Eastern nation. A good place to start would be by picking up and reading Haifa Zangana's book, "City of Windows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance." Zangana is an Iraqi woman, journalist and activist, who was also a former prisoner of Saddam Hussein's regime. She dedicated her book to A'beer Quassim Hamza al-Janaby. read more »

UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD (a little bit of so much truth)

rick — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:09:09 -0500

Come See: UN POQUITO DE TANTA VERDAD (a little bit of so much truth)

This is a great documentary about the events in Oaxaca Mexico in the summer of 2006. It focuses on the role of community radio in coordinating the mobilizations of the people. In doing so it also gives a flavor of the spirit of the people in this largely indigenous region of Mexico. THIS IS A FREE EVENT! We think people should see it if they haven't.

Wednesday February 6th, 7pm @ TRADITIONS Fair Trade Cafe, 5th & Water St.

GREEK & ITALIAN WORKERS FIGHT BACK (ITS NOT JUST FRANCE)

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:10:09 -0500

Thomas Riggins

"GREECE : STRIKES AGAINST PENSION CHANGE BEGIN" so begins a World Briefing entry by Anthee Carassava in today's New York Times International section (11/27/07).

The capitalist neoliberal assault on worker's rights in the EU is not confined to France. There is a general trend, since the fall of the USSR and the Eastern European worker's states, to roll back the gains of the European working class since the end of WW2.

The reasons are the same in Greece as in France. "Striking teachers marched through Athens streets, part of a planned wave of strikes against what unions describe as government plans to raise retirement ages and cut benefits to millions of future retirees." read more »

Strike in Jharkhand to protest violence in Assam

pirate — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:43:31 -0500

By IANS

Monday November 26, 03:44 PM

Ranchi, Nov 26 (IANS) Life was affected in Jharkhand following a general strike called by various political parties and tribal organisations to protest violent clashes during a tribal rally in Assam last week in which one person was killed.

Schools and colleges as well as private and government institutions were closed due to the strike. Buses plying on long-distance routes remained off roads and railway services were disrupted in Ranchi, Dhnabad and at other places.

Normal life was affected in Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Dumka districts. read more »

Making Anarchism Possible

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:35:05 -0500

Making Anarchist Revolution Possible

By Arthur J. Miller

Introduction

This writing is not the product of any organization or philosophical tendency within anarchism. Though it is greatly influenced by organizations and different anarchist ideas, it is in fact only the viewpoint of one anarchist who seeks to answer the question of how an anarchist revolution could take place in our modern society. read more »

Street protests 'paralyse' Peru

pirate — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:52:17 -0400

By Dan Collyns BBC News, Lima

Nationwide protests and a general strike have brought Peru to a near standstill over the last week.

Thousands of people in every major town and city took to the streets, and three people are reported to have been killed in clashes around the country.

The protests are widely seen as a show of disapproval with the government of President Alan Garcia. read more »