|
Solidarity rally with workers from the Colonade Hotel |
|
by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 Skilled trades and maintenance workers at the Colonade Hotel are united in the Area Trades Council. Hotel management is refusing to agree to a contract that would provide fair wages and benefits based on area standards. Union and community supporters came to a rally to show support for fairness and put pressure on management to treat employees with dignity and respect. |
|
Read the full article » |
|
30 Jun 2008
|
Filed under: News / Labor |
|
Aramark Workers Strike at Boston’s Convention Centers |
|
by Jake Carman, |
 On June 21st, hundreds of food service workers initiated a strike against the Philadelphia-based Food Service company, Aramark, walking off the job and picketing at Boston’s two biggest convention centers: the Hynes Convention Center (HCC) and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC). 350 food workers at the two convention centers, members of Unite Here Local 26, have been without a contract since October, and the company called off all negotiations in May.
[Reposted from BAAM! newsletter: Print your own personal copy from article below!] |
|
Read the full article » |
|
30 Jun 2008
|
Filed under: News / Labor |
|
BAAM # 10 out! |
|
by Jake, trenchesfullofpoets (nospam) riseup.net |
 We are proud to release BAAM # 10. PDF downloadable plus plain text, below. This month's articles: -Aramark Workers Strike at Boston’s Convention Centers; -Barack Obama, the lesser evil for undocumented migrant workers... or not; -IU 460 Fights for Fairness; -Chalking Against the BU Biolab Now A Crime: The Story of the Crayola Two.. . |
|
Read the full article » |
|
30 Jun 2008
|
Filed under: News / Media |
|
Reponse to "Queer Liberation and Anarchist Communism" |
|
by anrcha-queer, sew.it.goes (nospam) gmail.com |
Parts of this article I would agree with or appreciate as a queer and trans person, though other parts are simply offensive.
I am glad NEFAC can show solidarity for queer liberation struggles (read as struggles based in sexuality, gender identity or representation). I feel social justice struggles are inevitably connected and working towards an analysis which embraces this is beneficial, nurturing and necessary for any revolutionary movement to occur. |
|
Read the full article » (2 comments) |
|
Boston Area Multinational Lionbridge in Union Busting Scandal |
|
by SebaT, sebastiantyminski (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Waltham based Lionbridge Technologies is target of international protest. Labor activists in Poland have made the call for solidarity actions and protest letters to a MA based multinational, Lionbridge Technologies. The globalization giant, which provides services for Microsoft, Google and other corporations, apparently did a little union busting in the birthplace of Solidarity. |
|
Read the full article » |
|
27 Jun 2008
|
Filed under: News / Labor |
|
Anatomy of a Successful Antiwar Movement |
|
by Matthew Andrews, peopleunite (nospam) verizon.net |
 This summer there will be a National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation in Cleveland, Ohio (http://natassembly.org). One of the main goals of the assembly will be to lay the groundwork for mass action against the war. At first glance, 2008 seems like an unlikely year to jump start a sluggish antiwar movement. With the elections this fall, the political pressure to line up behind the Democratic Party’s slate of candidates is already peeling away our fair weather friends from those of us who are serious about building an independent antiwar movement.
[If interested in going to Cleveland from Boston, visit: http://stopthewars.org/stwc/] |
|
Read the full article » |
|
Queer Liberation and Anarchist Communism |
|
by Thomas Giovanni- NEFAC Boston Local Union, |
 As anarchist communists, it is only logical and consistent with our principles in the struggle for a free humanity that we support the personal, cultural, and institutional fight against patriarchy, hetero-sexism, the gender bi-nary system and all other struggles for queer liberation both in themselves and in their intersectionalities with capitalism, the state, white supremacy, and all other forms of human oppression. |
|
Read the full article » |
|
The Mortgage Crisis in the USA |
|
by Randy - Capital Terminus Collective- Atlanta (NEFAC Supporter Collective), capitalterminus (nospam) gmail.com |
 Commentators complain of "partisanship" in Washington. Society's problems are said to result from infighting between parties. We should celebrate, then, because Democrats and Republicans have agreed on a plan to end the mortgage crisis. What solution do they offer? Handouts to Big Business, and "fiscal discipline" for the rest. |
|
Read the full article » |
|
