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Justice for Janitors! Justice for Immigrants! Day of Action this Thursday‏

Tarps and Tents Don't Make a Movement‏
General Strike/port action proposal for tonight's General Assembly in light of recent attacks‏

Wis Dems And Unions To Kick Off Walker Recall Effort At Midnight

Walker Recall Battle Under Way in Wisconsin‏

When dairy workers are fired, 99% take action!‏

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From: norma chavez peterson [mailto:nchavezpeterson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:18 AM
To: Lopez, Carmen [LCSW]
Subject: Justice for Janitors! Justice for Immigrants! Day of Action this Thursday

Justice for Janitors! Justice for Immigrants!

San Diego Day of Action
Thursday, November 17th

Our broken immigration system is tearing our families!

12:00 pm      Justice for Janitors March 

@ Civic Center Plaza, 1200 Third Ave. San Diego, CA. 92101

ICE is attacking workers in San Diego and across the country! 

For more than 21 years janitors in San Diego and throughout California have fought, organized and sacrificed collectively to improve the quality of life of low-wage workers, to lift families out of poverty and to strengthen workers rights and benefits.

Now, ICE is attacking janitors here in San Diego. Join us during your lunch hour to march for Justice for Janitors! (Pizza will be provided.) 

5:00 pm Keep our Families Together Rally-Vigil 
Federal Building 
880 Front Street, San Diego

Without immigration reform, there will be more families separated by deportation and detention, more worksite raids and growing fear in our communities. Join us, as we demand a STOP to Enforcement only policies and push for Justice for Janitors! Justice for Immigrants!

For More information Call:  :  619-641.3050
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They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they can’t slow down the Occupy Wall Street movement. 

There have been police raids on Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; Denver; Albany, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; and Chapel Hill, N.C.—and now, last night in New York’s Zuccotti Park—orchestrated by politicians acting on behalf of the 1%. 

But the 99% is undaunted. Occupy Wall Street’s message already has created a new day. This movement has created a seismic shift in our national debate—from austerity and cuts to jobs, inequality and our broken economic system. 

Send a message of solidarity to the Occupy Wall Street protesters—which will be delivered by Working America this week.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been committed to peaceful, nonviolent action from its inception. And it will keep spreading no matter what elected officials tell police to do. But that doesn’t mean these raids are acceptable. In fact, they are inexcusable.

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it, these protests are “as American as apple pie.” Americans must be allowed to speak out against pervasive inequality, even if the truth discomfits the 1%. 

The AFL-CIO will do everything in our power to make sure the free speech rights of these peaceful protesters are protected.

Click here to send a message of solidarity directly to the Occupy Wall Street protesters—Working America will deliver it this week.

We are the 99%.

In Solidarity,

Richard L. Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

P.S. Share this on  Facebook and  Twitter.

To find out more about the AFL-CIO, please visit our website at www.aflcio.org.
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The following proposal will be presented to the GA tonight by the 
Port Action/General Strike affinity group which met the last two 
Sundays on the west steps:

OccupyLA Proposal by Port Action/General Strike affinity group

What: Carry out a port action, "Occupy the Ports/A Day without 
Goldman Sachs," on December 12 as part of the Dec. 12 day of action, 
Boycott and March already adopted by the GA. The occupation will take 
place at at least one facility owned by SSA Marine, a shipping 
company belonging to Goldman Sachs, (coordinated with a possible port 
shut down by the port truck drivers) as a build up towards a General 
Strike on May 1, 2012.

How: a) Establish a General Strike Preparation Committee of OccupyLA, 
which will work with the Dec. 12 Coalition, port truck drivers, 
longshore, warehouse and other port workers, community residents, 
unions, and OccupyLongBeach to plan and organize the Dec. 12 actions. 
b) Develop alliances in the process with organized and unorganized 
labor, student and community groups to prepare for and build towards 
a General Strike on May 1, 2012, >> EMPHASIS ADDED: or at any moment 
that circumstances and conditions demand<<. c) Call on other 
Occupations to act on Dec. 12 and May 1.

Why: The 1% are depriving port truck drivers and other workers of 
decent pay, working conditions and the right to organize, even while 
the port of LA/LB is the largest in the US and a huge engine of 
profits for the 1%. They have pursued a conscious policy of 
de-industrialization that has resulted in "trade" at the port meaning 
that there are 7 containers coming in for every one going out. They 
have driven migrant workers into a "grey market" economy and 
repression. The port drivers and other workers have the power to push 
forward the kind of change we need. By building towards a general 
strike, we can spread the Occupy movement and sink roots in the 99%.

I intend to add the following two sentences near the end of the "why" 
section as a friendly amendment during discussion, to go between 
"...repression." and "The port drivers...:"

The 1% use police brutality and repression, jails and prisons to 
suppress, divide and try to silence the 99% and all who oppose their 
insatiable greed. To put an end to all that, we call on the 99% to 
march, boycott, occupy the ports, and STRIKE on December 12 for full 
legalization, good jobs for all, equality and justice.

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In Oregon, a partnership of unions, government and businesses have launched a “Cool Schools” initiative that includes repairs, rebuilding and energy retrofits.Starting today, thousands of volunteers all over Wisconsin are hitting the streets to gather the 540,000 signatures needed to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R). There is a 60-day window to get enough signatures to put Walker’s recall on the ballot and the election would be held six weeks after the signatures are verified.
 Unions’ Partnership with Oregon’s Cool Schools Means Green Schools and Jobs Massachusetts Workers Mobilize as Deficit Deadline Looms Next Up in Trade Agreements: Trans-Pacific Partnership Tune in to ‘The People’s Mic’Read more important news of the day on the issues working families care about. Follow the AFL-CIO:
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You can make “Darigreed” listen to workers. 

Sign the petition TODAY!

Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold label are going through hell and need your help. More than a third of them have been fired after they dared asked to have a union. They’re suing the dairy for wage and hour violations and even assault. According to workers, the dairy owner, supported by multi-million dollar loan from a major lender, carries a rifle in his truck and has threatened workers.

According to former employee Miguel Cuevas,  the owner told Cuevas, "This rifle is for those people with the union." While most farm workers aren’t in the urban occupy actions, the fight they are in is the same fight against corporate greed that has led to the occupy movement. They are part of the 99%.

Workers and UFW supporters have repeatedly tried to appeal to Darigold about the reported abuses workers who labor to produce their product face, but Darigold remains silent. At the most recent delegation, Darigold greeted folks with security guards instead of coming out to talk.

Worker Rafael Munoz shared this thought: "By not showing their face, they are showing us that they support the mistreatment of workers. We need the support now of the consumer so that our struggle will become even bigger. The more time that passes, the bigger this will become."  

Help make this bigger. We've launched a petition drive. Please add your name to it. We’ll present the signatures to Darigold shortly after Thanksgiving. 

http://action.ufw.org/dgpetitionAfter you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page by clicking here or going to http://action.ufw.org/page/share/darigoldoccupy.
Why Darigold?Ruby Ridge is part of the Darigold cooperative, a large dairy processing company headquartered in Seattle, WA. The milk the dairy produces is marketed under the Darigold brand.
http://consumer.darigold.com/locations.htmlDarigold products include milk, butter, and yogurt. You can see where Darigold products are sold by visiting their website by clicking here.Campaign BackgroundRuby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization cards asking the UFW to represent them. Workers complained about not being allowed to take breaks, eat lunch, and having to drink water out of a hose used to wash cow manure off the dairy floor. They tell us they continue to not to have any benefits above and beyond an hourly wage. They report that owner Dick Bengen has often carried a rifle with him on his large dairy farm that he uses to scare the workers into line. Mr. Bengen made a point of explaining the special purpose of this rifle to worker Miguel Cuevas, when he told him, "This rifle is for those people with the union."

When the UFW approached Ruby Ridge owners Dick and Ruby Bengen, their good faith offer was flatly rejected. Workers inform us that it was then the Bengens unleashed their retaliatory campaign against workers, firing over a dozen suspected union activists. With the support of the UFW, a number of those workers have filed suit against Ruby Ridge.

Ruby Ridge subsequently filed a SLAPP lawsuit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) against both Ruby Ridge workers and the UFW in a blatant attempt to silence workers.Keep up with the Ruby Ridge campaign at: www.ufw.org/rubyridge.
Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news.Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Cause, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace,and Care2 pages. Please link to us and become our "Friend" and follow us on Twitter too! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve.If you want to change your mailing address and/or phone number click hereIf you want to receive our alerts at a different e-mail address, send an e-mail to ufwofamer at aol.comPlease add us to your safelist: Please add ufwofamer at aol.com to your address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail.Privacy PolicyTo unsubscribe, go to: http://action.ufw.org/unsubscribeThis email was sent to cgpelayo at hotmail.com.United Farm Workers,  P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org

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