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Internationalist Group | 12.29.2011
Following the nationally-coordinated police evictions last month of Occupy Wall Street and encampments across the country, on December 12 the Occupiers struck back. Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. Despite a barrage of hostile propaganda in the media, opposition from union bureaucrats and heavy police repression in some places, overall the blockade was successful -- this time. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can't be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT's union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy. December 2011 Occupy protesters blockade the port of Oakland, California, December 12. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Partido ng Manggagawa - Labor Party | 04.04.2011
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) held a torch parade tonight as initial results in the strike poll reveal a tremendous vote for yes. Only the ballots of PALEA members in the Metro Manila offices of Philippines Airlines have been counted and show 96% votes of for a strike and a mere 3% voted against. In the last strike vote conducted last December, some 86% voted yes. In yesterday’s voting, 1996 PALEA members in Metro Manila participated out of some 2987 total members. “The Metro Manila votes of PALEA members are a clear trend that we believe will be repeated in the outlying stations once the ballots have been counted. This is a herald of the determination of PAL workers to fight for their regular jobs and right to bargain. We hope that PAL management heeds this call instead of dismissing it as baseless,” stated Gerry Rivera, PALEA president and vice chair of Partido ng Manggagawa.
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Internationalist Group | 10.28.2010
From our correspondent in France Something New – High School and College Students Protest the Pension “Reform” – Why? French Students Mobilize: “Sarkozy, You’re Screwed, The Youth Are In the Streets!”
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Internationalist Group | 05.21.2010
On the evening of May 20, the notorious Shock Force of the Puerto Rican Police brutally attacked a demonstration of hundreds of students and workers protesting against Governor Luis Fortuño. The assault took place in the luxurious Sheraton Hotel, where the privatizing, anti-worker governor was presiding over a fancy fundraising dinner. As our reporter recounts, the police brutally beat demonstrators with riot clubs and pepper-sprayed everyone with tear gas and pepper gas. This was the response of the government to the workers strike two days ago in support of the student strike at the University of Puerto Rico, which has lasted almost a month. It is urgently necessary to translate the worker-student unity that was on display on May 18 into powerful strike actions that shut down key sectors of the economy of the U.S.' Caribbean island economy. We publish here the on-the-spot report from our correspondent who witnessed and participated in the protest.
SUPPORT STRIKING TEMPLE NURSES TAKE A STAND AGAINST UNION BUSTING …AND HAVE A GOOD TIME DOING IT! Since March 31, over 1,500 nurses and technical/professional staff at Temple University Hospital have been on strike, standing up for patient safety and against blatant union busting efforts by the TUH administration. Temple University Hospital has hired a notorious strike breaking firm to bring in scab labor from all over the country. In three weeks, they spent more to try to break the union than the entire four year contract would have cost them.
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Joe Piette | 04.22.2010
A very spirited and militant solidarity rally with nurses by over 1,200 strikers and supporters gathered outside Temple hospital Wednesday evening, confronting busloads of scabs with chants and signs. After listening to solidarity speakers, including several union officials who presented donation checks to the nurses union PASNAP (Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals), the union-friendly crowd marched twice around the building despite a light but steady rain that fell during the event. Toward the end of the rally, strikers gathered across from a hospital entrance as at least eight coach buses, paid for by Temple Hospital, stopped to unload and pick-up scab strike breakers for a shift change. For around 30 minutes, as police officials stood between the two adversaries, hundreds gathered across the street to chant “Scabs go home” and “Shame on You” as the strikebreakers entered and left the hospital.
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Todd Wolfson, MMP | 04.11.2010
On Thursday, members of Act-Up Philly, Geo-Clan, Public School Notebook, Workers United, The Taxi Workers Alliance, Philadelphia Student Union, Media Mobilizing Project and many others, joined the striking nurses on the picket line at Temple Hospital. The event came eight days after the nurses went on strike on March 31. Community members are supporting the striking nurses because of the recent behavior of Temple University Health System. To see images of the event go here  Originally posted at Media Mobilizing Project
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Internationalist Group | 11.27.2009
The threat to Mumia Abu-Jamal's life is increasingly ominous. His lead attorney, Robert Bryan, warns: "There is an escalated effort by the authorities to see him die at the hands of the executioner. This is the most dangerous time for Mumia since his 1981 arrest." The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Jamal's two appeals. If it were to rule in favor of the prosecution's appeal, this would open the way for Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell to issue a third warrant of execution, which he has vowed to do. Contrary to the misplaced expectations of many, the Obama administration is not about to save Mumia. Around the world, hundreds of thousands have marched for this courageous champion of oppressed. Trade unions representing millions of members have rallied to the defense of Mumia. It is urgent to expand this support into powerful labor/black action, appealing to the integrated union movement to join with the black, Latino and immigrant poor to demand that he be liberated. Appeals to Obama’s Top Cop Eric Holder Spread Deadly IllusionsMumia’s Life Is On the Line:
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