Longshore Workers, Truckers: Shut the Ports, Coast to Coast! (tags)
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.
Bazaar Bizarre West Punk Craft Fair in LA Dec. 12 (tags)
Bazaar Bizarre is the largest punk craft fair in America, happening in Boston, Cleveland and Los Angeles in 2004! This year’s LA vendors feature mutant stuffed toys, X-rated cross stitch, knutty knitwear, sumptuous corsets, and much more that your grandma never made. A unique shopping alternative to the mall this Christmas for the naughty and nice on your list.
Protest Repeal of SB60-Dec. 12 (tags)
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Protest Repeal of SB60-Dec. 12 (tags)
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Protest Repeal of SB60-Dec. 12 in OC (tags)
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THE DECEMBRIST MANIFESTO: Declaration Of A New Culture Of Hope And Freedom (tags)
DECEMBER 12, 2000:In the last month of the 20th Century, a new culture rises from the final death rattle of American "democracy."